Making your home HomeSmart: A homeowner manual

Lois Easton, Andrea Blackmore. The Homeowner Manual pulls together information and advice for homeowners on how to get the best performance from their home. It covers both renovating for improved […]

Policy options for sustainable homes A resource manual for local government

Megan Howell, Damon Birchfield. This Resource Manual sets out to assist councils to understand the need for sustainable homes, define what makes a sustainable home, establish the basis for action, […]

Clawback of heating services in Beacon research homes

Andrew Pollard, Nikki Buckett. Data from the Papakowhai Renovation Project and the Waitakere NOW Home are used to assess the clawback from the water heating and space heating services in […]

Water demand management: An economic framework to value with case study application

Nicola Smith, Garry McDonald, Dorothy Wilson. This report synthesises three reports produced as a result of the development of a framework to value water demand management and its application to […]

The environmental impact of the Waitakere NOW Home: A life cycle assessment case study

David Drysdale, Barbara Nebel, Nick Collins, Andrea Blackmore. A Life Cycle Assessment case study of Beacon Pathway’s Waitakere NOW Home indicates that the greatest environmental impact of a house is […]

A framework for valuing water demand management: Tauranga City Council case study

  This is part of research which addressed the question, ‘why’ (would an organisation adopt WDM)? To do this Beacon commissioned work from Market Economics in three parts: a literature […]

A framework for valuing water demand management: Conceptual framework

Nicola Smith, Garry McDonald. This is report 2 of 3 in a rigorous economic analysis of the value of water demand management to help councils and water authorities to demonstrate […]

A framework for valuing water demand management: Literature review

Nicola Smith, Gary McDonald, Susie Trinh. This is report 1 of 3 in a rigorous economic analysis of the value of water demand management to help councils and water authorities […]

Development of HomeSmart Home Procedures v.1 for piloting

Lois Easton, Marta Karlik-Neale, Roman Jaques. This report outlines the methodology and work undertaken to develop the Version 1 HomeSmart Home Procedures for the NOW100 (HomeSmart Homes) Project. The Procedures […]

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 […]