Assessing the viability of financial incentives for sustainable housing initiatives

Julia de Blaauw, Dan McGregor (Ascari Partners). This report explores the viability of financial incentives that could be offered by local government authorities in order to encourage sustainable housing initiatives […]

Slowing the flow: A comprehensive demand management framework for reticulated water supply

Maggie Lawton, Damon Birchfield, Dorothy Wilson. A framework is presented in this publication to assist water supply authorities and councils in developing a demand management strategy. It draws on information […]

Best practice policy approaches to encourage sustainable residential building and renovation: Survey and literature review results

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 […]

Best practice water efficiency policy and regulations

Maggie Lawton, Damon Birchfield, David Kettle, Chloe Trenouth. This report is an in-depth investigation into demand management practices in New Zealand and overseas and the regulation and other policy approaches […]

District plan barriers and incentives to sustainable residential building: Case studies

Chloe Trenouth. A case study review of three territorial authorities (Christchurch City Council, Kapiti Coast District Council and Hamilton City Council) identifying potential barriers to implementing sustainable residential development created […]

Making policy and regulations rain tank friendly

Maggie Lawton, Damon Birchfield, David Kettle. This investigation reviewed the legal and policy pathways for mandating to include rain tanks for water conservation in new homes in the Auckland Region. […]

Demand management through water retrofit projects

Damon Birchfield, Lois Easton. This paper considers the breadth and scope of demand management water conservation/retrofit initiatives taking place within and across New Zealand. At present, there is very little […]

Scoping waste in the residential built environment

Michelle Kazor, Joanne Koppel. This is a scoping report on level and composition of solid waste in New Zealand, current waste policy and regulation, and measures taken to minimise construction, […]

Regulatory framework development: Understanding current sustainability regulations and policy

Mike O’Connell. This report updates, reviews and summarises policy and strategy development as well as relevant initiatives on urban sustainability by central and local government during 2005. It updates the […]

Local council sustainable building barriers and incentives: Auckland City case study

Lois Easton, David Mead, Chloe Trenouth, David Fullbrook, Patrick Arnold. A review of the potential barriers to sustainable building within Auckland City Council’s planning and regulatory framework, and the incentives […]