Kay Saville-Smith. This survey of 700 householders found that high energy users resist investment in retrofitting and do not select resource efficient homes. Despite higher energy expenditure and incomes, householders […]
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Kay Saville-Smith. This report summarises three surveys of homeowner groups in New Zealand: high energy users, recent movers, landlords. It focuses on awareness, attitudes and efforts toward renovation, and willingness […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kay Saville-Smith. This report presents the findings of the in-depth interviews with nine of the ten householders involved in the Papakowhai retrofit, and comments on the learnings from Papakowhai in […]
Michael Phillips. A theoretical cost benefit for options to retrofit for water and energy was carried out using ALF. At a national level, the following options have a theoretical internal […]
Robyn Phipps, Jeremy Warnes. This report backgrounds the issues of healthy and unhealthy home environments and provides evidence that the home environment and health are intrinsically linked. Pollutants that are […]
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.
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 […]
Ian McChesney, Lynda Amitrano. This is a desktop study of all the existing research programmes that address the benefits of retrofitting house including: Housing, Insulation and Health (HIH) study – […]