Policy and regulation: Clarification of Beacon’s role

Allen & Clarke Policy and Regulatory Specialists. The purpose of this paper is to assist Beacon Pathway Limited (Beacon) to influence policy and regulatory processes, in the most effective way, […]

National value case for sustainable housing innnovations

Allen & Clarke Policy and Regulatory Specialists, Infometrics, Eco$ense, Martin Jenkins, Beacon Pathway. This presents a strong value case at a national level to transform a significant proportion of the […]

Sustainable homes national value case

Ralph Chapman, Wayne Sharman. This report quantitatively assesses the National Value Case for a range of innovations related to the efficient and sustainable use of the country’s resources in housing […]

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. […]

Market segmentation of New Zealand’s housing stock

Lynda Amitrano, Ian Page. This report identifies the key market segments with the New Zealand residential housing stock and the associated drivers and opportunities to improve the sustainability of the […]

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 […]

Market segmentation of New Zealand’s housing stock

Lynda Amitrano, N Kirk, Ian Page. This report proposes a structure/framework for a National Scorecard to measure change in the sustainability of houses at a national level. It sources publicly […]

Regulatory framework development: Understanding current sustainability regulations and policy

Mike O’Connell. This report aims to ensure Beacon and its providers have a clear understanding of the environment surrounding sustainability regulation and policy development in central and local government. To […]