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 […]

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, […]

NOW Home benchmarking report: NOW Home vs ref homes

Roman Jaques. The report describes and compares the sustainable (i.e. environmental, economic and social) features of two specific house types within the BEACON Pathway’s research project. The two house types […]

Waitakere NOW Home construction monitoring report

Chris Kane, Robin Allison, Roman Jaques, Andrew Pollard. Reports on the consenting and construction process of the Waitakere NOW Home, including construction waste monitoring and installation of monitoring. The NOW […]

Waitakere NOW Home construction monitoring report

Chris Kane, Robin Allison, Roman Jaques, Andrew Pollard. Reports on the consenting and construction process of the Waitakere NOW Home, including construction waste monitoring and installation of monitoring. The NOW […]

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 […]

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 […]

The NOW House project: Part 1. The NOW House design process and insights for future projects

Karen Bayne, Chris Kane. This report provides an overview of the NOW house design process from a review of project communications and documentation regarding the NOW house during the period […]

The NOW House project: Part 3. Monitoring the NOW House

Chris Kane, JL van Wyk, Andrew Pollard. This report summarises the options available for monitoring of the NOW house, by considering the requirements in two distinct categories: construction monitoring, and […]