CONZTRUCT, the touring building-industry trade expo run by The CMS Group, stops at Mercury Baypark in Tauranga on 11 November 2026 (3pm-6:30pm) with 50+ trade displays and CPD/LBP licence points for construction trades.
CONZTRUCT returns to the Bay of Plenty on 11 November 2026, setting up at Mercury Baypark in Tauranga from 3pm to 6:30pm. The travelling trade expo gathers 50-plus trade displays under one roof for the region's building and construction workforce, with free entry, complimentary food and drinks, and show-only specials on the day. Attendees can also earn CPD and LBP licence points, which the organiser notes requires registering with your own email address as proof of attendance.
CONZTRUCT is brought to you by The CMS Group, according to the official conztruct.co.nz site, and is supported by industry partners including Carters, JAR, RAD and Smartspec. The Tauranga date is one stop on a national 2026 tour that runs through 13 centres from Hamilton and Auckland in June to the lower South Island in October, with Tauranga sitting in the final Auckland North and East Coast leg alongside Auckland North (10 November) and Napier (12 November).
The expo is pitched at the full span of construction trades, builders, electricians and designers among them, who come to see new products, meet suppliers and keep current with industry developments. The format is a single afternoon-to-evening session of trade displays rather than a conference programme, built around face-to-face contact between merchants, manufacturers and trades on the floor.
Mercury Baypark sits at 81 Truman Lane, Mt Maunganui, which the Bay of Plenty regional tourism body describes as being on the junction of major state highways and only minutes from Tauranga Airport. The complex offers around 13,000sqm of arena and meeting space, and the venue reports roughly 5,000 free on-site car parks, an asset for a trades audience arriving largely by vehicle after work. The same source places the venue within easy reach of the Tauranga CBD, hotels, motels, shopping and dining, so visiting exhibitors and out-of-town attendees have accommodation and services close by.
CONZTRUCT is a recurring, multi-city trade exhibition that repeatedly books large regional arenas like Mercury Baypark for short, high-footfall sessions, a reminder of the role touring vertical-market expos play in filling NZ venue calendars outside the conference season. For the Bay of Plenty, the stop brings a concentrated trade audience into a flagship stadium-and-arena venue in a single afternoon.
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