Industry perceptions of medium density consenting issues, challenges and suggested solutions

Verney Ryan, Bill Smith, Rachel Foster. This research explored with industry the challenges, problems and difficulties with consenting for medium density development, and sought potential solutions to the challenges. Interviews […]

Policy options for sustainable homes A resource manual for local government

Megan Howell, Damon Birchfield. This Resource Manual sets out to assist councils to understand the need for sustainable homes, define what makes a sustainable home, establish the basis for action, […]

Water demand management: An economic framework to value with case study application

Nicola Smith, Garry McDonald, Dorothy Wilson. This report synthesises three reports produced as a result of the development of a framework to value water demand management and its application to […]

A framework for valuing water demand management: Tauranga City Council case study

  This is part of research which addressed the question, ‘why’ (would an organisation adopt WDM)? To do this Beacon commissioned work from Market Economics in three parts: a literature […]

A framework for valuing water demand management: Conceptual framework

Nicola Smith, Garry McDonald. This is report 2 of 3 in a rigorous economic analysis of the value of water demand management to help councils and water authorities to demonstrate […]

A framework for valuing water demand management: Literature review

Nicola Smith, Gary McDonald, Susie Trinh. This is report 1 of 3 in a rigorous economic analysis of the value of water demand management to help councils and water authorities […]

Energy-water relationships in reticulated water infrastructure systems

Ben Kneppers, Damon Birchfield, Maggie Lawton. The report provides an initial analysis of the relationship between energy use and reticulated water supply and wastewater treatment. A literature study was supplemented […]

Energy-water relationships in reticulated water infrastructure systems

Ben Kneppers, Damon Birchfield, Maggie Lawton. The report provides an initial analysis of the relationship between energy use and reticulated water supply and wastewater treatment. A literature study was supplemented […]

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 […]

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 […]