HomeSmart Renovations: Householder actions and responses to dwelling performance

Kay Saville-Smith, Ruth Fraser, Nikki Buckett, Michael Camilleri. This report presents self-reported and monitored data from householders participating in the HomeSmart Renovations Project. It describes the profile of those householders, […]

Clawback of heating services in Beacon research homes

Andrew Pollard, Nikki Buckett. Data from the Papakowhai Renovation Project and the Waitakere NOW Home are used to assess the clawback from the water heating and space heating services in […]

HomeSmart Renovations Phase Two report: Progress of pilot

Lois Easton. This report documents Phase Two of the HomeSmart Renovations project. This phase covers all activities from the launch of the pilot to the completion of the Renovation Plans […]

Rotorua NOW Home case study

Andrea Blackmore. A high level summary of the design and performance of the Rotorua NOW Home, and the experience of the family living in it.

Concluding Beacon’s NOW100 project

Vicki Cowan, Lois Easton, Andries Popping. This report documents Beacon’s new homes research, at the point of early wrap up of the NOW100 project. The decision to withdraw from the […]

Life cycle assessment of the Waitakere NOW Home

David Drysdale, Barbara Nebel. This report provides an assessment of the environmental impacts of the Waitakere NOW Home using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). All life cycle stages from material manufacturing […]

Development of HomeSmart Home Procedures v.1 for piloting

Lois Easton, Marta Karlik-Neale, Roman Jaques. This report outlines the methodology and work undertaken to develop the Version 1 HomeSmart Home Procedures for the NOW100 (HomeSmart Homes) Project. The Procedures […]

HomeSmart Renovations: Early data from the homeowner interviews

Kay Saville-Smith. This report presents data from a set of householders interviewed at least a month after the receipt of their HomeSmart Renovation Plan. It considers the profile of those […]

Rotorua NOW Home: Final performance monitoring

Andrew Pollard, Roman Jaques. This report examines the sustainability performance of Beacon Pathway’s second new construction research house: the Rotorua NOW Home. The reticulated energy use, reticulated water use, indoor […]

Papakowhai Renovations: Project summary and case studies

Lois Easton. A project examining sustainable retrofit of existing homes in Papakowhai was undertaken from 2006-2008. Nine homes were renovated with a range of sustainable interventions and monitored to see […]