Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2811 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to support efforts to enhance indigenous Hawaiian architecture techniques by appropriating $45,000 for the Maui County Task Force on Indigenous Hawaiian Architecture to conduct material and installation tests using local woods.

Two individuals testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee finds that there is renewed interest in buildings designed and constructed using traditional methods and materials that are based on indigenous Hawaiian architecture. The County of Maui has recognized that these traditional techniques and materials are as aesthetically pleasing, structurally sound, and safe as any structure designed in Western architecture. Accordingly, in 2002, it adopted a building code for structures based on indigenous Hawaiian architecture techniques. This bill will help to advance our knowledge about structures designed in this manner.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2811 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.