Megan Howell, Damon Birchfield. This report documents the findings of the first stage of research to identify existing successful policy approaches and the preferred provisions to be modelled as part […]
Document Tag: home performance
John Burgess, Nikki Buckett. The Papakowhai Renovation Project has extensively monitored nine homes in the Porirua suburb of Papakowhai before and after sustainability intervention packages were applied to the homes. […]
Kay Saville-Smith. A telephone survey of 491 landlords found resistance to investment in retrofitting and unresponsiveness to tenant demands or advice from professional bodies. Landlords report that they would renovate […]
Kay Saville-Smith. A postal survey of 724 homeowners found that recent movers resist significant investment in retrofitting but attempt to select resource efficient houses. They spend a relatively high amount […]
Kay Saville-Smith. This survey of 700 householders found that high energy users resist investment in retrofitting and do not select resource efficient homes. Despite higher energy expenditure and incomes, householders […]
Kay Saville-Smith. This report summarises three surveys of homeowner groups in New Zealand: high energy users, recent movers, landlords. It focuses on awareness, attitudes and efforts toward renovation, and willingness […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kay Saville-Smith. This report presents the findings of the in-depth interviews with nine of the ten householders involved in the Papakowhai retrofit, and comments on the learnings from Papakowhai in […]
Roman Jaques, Ian Mathews, Andrew Pollard. This interim report outlines the status of the performance monitoring dataset, as much analysis as possible on that dataset, a post-occupancy evaluation of the […]