Cost benefits of sustainable housing retrofits

Ian Page. This report considers the cost benefits of a variety of sustainable retrofits for the existing housing stock. The retrofit interventions costed are mainly energy and water related, and […]

Papakowhai Renovations: Householder experiences and perceptions

Rachael Trotman. This report presents the findings of post project interviews in March 2009 with three of the nine households involved in the Papakowhai Renovations Project in Wellington. Positive reported […]

Final monitoring report from the Papakowhai Renovations project

John Burgess, Nikki Buckett, Michael Camilleri, Lisa French, Andrew Pollard, Phil Hancock. The Papakowhai Renovation Project has monitored indoor environment, waste, water and energy parameters in nine homes in the […]

Life cycle assessment of the Waitakere NOW Home and Papakowhai Renovations

David Drysdale, Julie Sandilands. This report provides an assessment of the environmental impacts of the Waitakere NOW Home and two Papakowhai Renovation homes using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). All life-cycle […]

Best practice policy approaches to encourage sustainable residential building and retrofitting: Evaluation and shortlist of initiatives

Megan Howell, Damon Birchfield. This working paper presents research to develop and apply a set of evaluation criteria for reducing the long list of initiatives identified in phase 1 of […]

HomeSmart Renovations Phase One report: Development of procedures and establishing the pilot

Lois Easton, June Gibbons, Marta Karlik-Neale, Verney Ryan, Kay Saville Smith. This report documents Phase One of the HomeSmart Renovation project, covering all activities up to the launch of the […]

New Zealand house typologies to inform energy retrofits

Verney Ryan, Geoff Burgess, Lois Easton. This report summarises the findings from a workshop analysing house typologies that was held at the end of November 2007, which was followed up […]

Housing typologies: Current stock prevalence

Ian Page, J. Fung. This report analyses the characteristics of the housing stock that affect the ability, opportunity and need to retrofit sustainability features. It covers such features as roof […]

NOW100 project monitoring and evaluation

P. Arnold, Lois Easton, Andries Popping, Kay Saville-Smith. This working paper outlines the research methodology, low cost monitoring protocol and research and evaluation framework for the NOW100 Project. It outlines […]

Design criteria for retrofit windows and new walls

Karen Bayne, Timothy Allan, Kylie Baker. This report outlines a suggested approach for establishing design criteria by which various systems can be assessed, to determine key performance parameters for solutions […]