Healthy Homes Initiative Auckland co-design: Report on stage two

Auckland-Wide Healthy Homes Co-Design Group. This second report on the Auckland Healthy Homes Initiatives (HHI) co-design journey focuses on work undertaken since October 20161. It builds on the key findings […]

Healthy Homes Initiative Auckland co-design: Report on stage one

Auckland-Wide Healthy Homes Co-Design Group. This document records the Auckland Wide Healthy Homes (AWHI) co-design journey for the period October 2015 to September 2016. It is not a plan of […]

Upgrade or retire? Exploring factors in making decisions for privately owned homes in Tāmaki

Glenda Lock, Verney Ryan. This research explored options for upgrading or retiring privately owned building stock at the development or neighbourhood level within the Tāmaki regeneration area. The project sought […]

Cost tower: Residential construction costs for affordable and social housing in Auckland 2015

Nick Collins, Michael Bealing. This report gathers empirical evidence of the actual costs of residential construction in Auckland, particularly the costs of affordable and social housing. It analyses data from […]

The HomeSmart Home case study

Andrea Blackmore. A high level summary of the design and performance of New Zealand Housing Foundation’s HomeSmart Home including feedback from the household living in it.

New Zealand Housing Foundation HomeSmart Home: Evaluation of performance and occupancy

Lois Easton. The New Zealand Housing Foundation HomeSmart Home was designed in partnership with Beacon to meet the HSS High Standard of Sustainability.  This report brings together the findings from […]

Performance of the New Zealand Housing Foundation’s HomeSmart Home

Johannes Roberti, Andrew Pollard, Nikki Buckett and Lisa Burrough. This report examines the performance of the NZHF HomeSmart Home with regard to the energy and water use and indoor environment. […]

The NZHF HomeSmart Home: Occupants’ experience of the home and comparison with NOW Homes

Rachael Trotman. Following on from its NOW Home projects in Waitakere and Rotorua, Beacon partnered with the New Zealand Housing Foundation in 2009 to develop and monitor a sustainable HomeSmart […]

Waitakere NOW Home: Occupants’ experience of the home and implications for future NOW Homes

Rachael Trotman. This report reviews the research on the Waitakere NOW Home occupants’ experience of living in the home and the impact of their behaviour on the physical performance of […]

Waitakere NOW Home performance monitoring: Year two report

Andrew Pollard, Lisa French, Matthias Heinrich, Roman Jaques, John Zhao. Reports on the second year of monitoring the Waitakere NOW Home. Overall, the second year of occupation of the Waitakere […]