CONZTRUCT Queenstown 2026 is the Southern Lakes stop on The CMS Group's national building & construction trade-show circuit, at the Queenstown Events Centre in Frankton on 15 October 2026.
CONZTRUCT rolls into Queenstown as the Southern Lakes leg of The CMS Group's national building & construction trade-show circuit. The organiser's site is live and confirms the Queenstown edition runs at the Queenstown Events Centre in Frankton; an aggregator listing puts the 2026 date at 15 October 2026, 3–6:30pm, though the official 2026 event page is currently a 'register your interest' placeholder rather than a firmed schedule.
CONZTRUCT is produced by The CMS Group (Construction Marketing Services Ltd), a Christchurch-headquartered outfit that connects construction-industry suppliers with the architecture, design, specifier and trade communities through events, newsletters and specification tools. The trade show is a long-running fixture the group tours through multiple NZ cities each year, with the Queenstown stop typically following the Invercargill one on the southern swing.
The event targets trade professionals: builders, designers, architects and specifiers. Attendees come to see what's new, test the latest tools and products from suppliers, and network over free food and drinks. Builders, designers and architects can also earn CPD and LBP skills-maintenance points, giving the evening a professional-development pull beyond the exhibition floor.
The Queenstown stop is staged at the Queenstown Events Centre on Joe O'Connell Drive in Frankton, the district's main indoor arena and stadium complex. Frankton sits beside Queenstown Airport and close to the town's main accommodation and hospitality base, making it a practical, well-serviced location for a short trade-hours (mid-afternoon to early evening) exhibition drawing regional trade attendees.
CONZTRUCT is a compact, high-frequency example of the touring trade-expo format that keeps regional venues like the Queenstown Events Centre in active business-events use outside the conference calendar. Its supplier-plus-CPD model concentrates a whole regional trade audience into a single afternoon, underlining how sector-specific roadshows sustain year-round exhibition demand across secondary New Zealand centres.
Cited links supporting this report.
The Queenstown venues that can seat a 450-plus-guest gala or banquet dinner, ranked by banquet capacity.
The Queenstown venues able to seat a 700-plus-delegate conference in one plenary room, ranked by theatre capacity.
Queenstown lists 65 team-building and group-activity operators on MICE, from alpine adventure and jetboating to wine, Māori culture and CSR.
The Queenstown venues that can seat 250 or more guests banquet-style for a gala dinner, awards night or conference dinner, ranked by banquet capacity.
Queenstown's unique event venues — gondola summits, lakeside wineries and a vintage steamship — for incentives, galas and offsites.
How to arrange conference and delegate transport in Queenstown: airport transfers, coaches, shuttles and private cars from 15 listed operators.