Applying the Neighbourhood Sustainability residents’ survey to Hobsonville Point 2022

Applying the Neighbourhood Sustainability residents’ survey to Hobsonville Point 2020

Glenda Lock, Andrea Blackmore. This report provides the results of an application of the Residents’ Questionnaire from Beacon’s Neighbourhood Sustainability Tools to Hobsonville Point in February 2020. Results show that […]

Medium density housing assessment of four CORT developments

Verney Ryan, Glenda Lock, Bill Smith, Andrea Blackmore. Presents the results of applying Beacon Pathway’s medium density assessment tools to four CORT community housing developments (McLennan, Hokonui, Princes Street, Scott […]

Applying the Neighbourhood Sustainability residents’ questionnaire to Hobsonville Point 2018

Glenda Lock, Andrea Blackmore. This report provides the results of an application of the Residents’ Questionnaire from Beacon’s Neighbourhood Sustainability Tools to Hobsonville Point in June and July 2018. Results […]

Applying the Neighbourhood Sustainability residents’ questionnaire to Hobsonville Point 2016

Glenda Lock. This report provides the results of an application of the Beacon Neighbourhood Sustainability Tool to Hobsonville Point in June to August 2016. Results show that Hobsonville Point rates […]

New Zealand Housing Foundation HomeSmart Home: Evaluation of performance and occupancy

Lois Easton. The New Zealand Housing Foundation HomeSmart Home was designed in partnership with Beacon to meet the HSS High Standard of Sustainability.  This report brings together the findings from […]

The NZHF HomeSmart Home: Occupants’ experience of the home and comparison with NOW Homes

Rachael Trotman. Following on from its NOW Home projects in Waitakere and Rotorua, Beacon partnered with the New Zealand Housing Foundation in 2009 to develop and monitor a sustainable HomeSmart […]

HomeSmart Renovations: Householder actions and responses to dwelling performance

Kay Saville-Smith, Ruth Fraser, Nikki Buckett, Michael Camilleri. This report presents self-reported and monitored data from householders participating in the HomeSmart Renovations Project. It describes the profile of those householders, […]

HomeSmart Renovations: Early data from the homeowner interviews

Kay Saville-Smith. This report presents data from a set of householders interviewed at least a month after the receipt of their HomeSmart Renovation Plan. It considers the profile of those […]

Rotorua NOW Home: Final performance monitoring

Andrew Pollard, Roman Jaques. This report examines the sustainability performance of Beacon Pathway’s second new construction research house: the Rotorua NOW Home. The reticulated energy use, reticulated water use, indoor […]