Sustainability options for retrofitting New Zealand houses: Theoretical cost benefit analysis

Michael Phillips. A theoretical cost benefit for options to retrofit for water and energy was carried out using ALF. At a national level, the following options have a theoretical internal […]

Waitakere NOW Home case study

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

Waitakere NOW Home performance monitoring: Year one report

Lisa French, Matthias Heinrich, Roman Jaques, Chris Kane, Andrew Pollard. This report summarises the learning from the first full year of occupancy of the Waitakere NOW Home. The Waitakere NOW […]

Sustainability options for retrofitting New Zealand houses: Energy

Ian McChesney, Lynda Amitrano. This is a desktop study of all the existing research programmes that address the benefits of retrofitting house including: Housing, Insulation and Health (HIH) study – […]

Waitakere NOW Home performance monitoring: Six month report

Roman Jaques, Andrew Pollard. This report provides a high-level view of the basic performance of the Waitakere NOW Home and its sustainability features for the first six months of occupation, […]

Waitakere NOW Home performance monitoring: Six month report

Roman Jaques, Andrew Pollard. This report provides a high-level view of the basic performance of the Waitakere NOW Home and its sustainability features for the first six months of occupation, […]

New technology impacts

Michael Donn, John Storey. This project investigated whether New Zealand had all the technologies it needed to reach the 2012 goal, what information was needed to plug the gaps, what […]

Housing retrofit: Housing interventions, stock and markets

John Storey, Ian Page, Louw van Wyk, Mike Collins, Tobias Kriel. This report provided: A high level summary of relevant sustainability related retrofit interventions worldwide and their success factors. A […]

NOW Home demonstration home hypothesis

Albrecht Stoecklein, Stephen McKernon. This research project provided a basis for arguing in favour or against spending Beacon research money on demonstration homes and promoting the NOW Home as a […]