The HomeSmart Home case study

Andrea Blackmore. A high level summary of the design and performance of New Zealand Housing Foundation’s HomeSmart Home including feedback from the household living in it.

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 […]

Performance of the New Zealand Housing Foundation’s HomeSmart Home

Johannes Roberti, Andrew Pollard, Nikki Buckett and Lisa Burrough. This report examines the performance of the NZHF HomeSmart Home with regard to the energy and water use and indoor environment. […]

Rotorua NOW Home case study

Andrea Blackmore. A high level summary of the design and performance of the Rotorua NOW Home, and the experience of the family living in it.

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 […]

Integrated water management design criteria report

David Kettle. The three-fold purpose of this project was to develop a product design criteria methodology to assess water saving products and systems; identify water products and systems that perform […]

Waitakere NOW Home: Occupants’ experience of the home and implications for future NOW Homes

Rachael Trotman. This report reviews the research on the Waitakere NOW Home occupants’ experience of living in the home and the impact of their behaviour on the physical performance of […]

Waitakere NOW Home performance monitoring: Year two report

Andrew Pollard, Lisa French, Matthias Heinrich, Roman Jaques, John Zhao. Reports on the second year of monitoring the Waitakere NOW Home. Overall, the second year of occupation of the Waitakere […]

Rotorua NOW Home: Interim Performance Monitoring

Roman Jaques, Ian Mathews, Andrew Pollard. This interim report outlines the status of the performance monitoring dataset, as much analysis as possible on that dataset, a post-occupancy evaluation of the […]

Waitakere NOW Home case study

Andrea Blackmore. A high level summary of the design and performance of the Waitakere NOW Home, including the experience of the family living in it.