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 […]
Maggie Lawton, Damon Birchfield, David Kettle, Chloe Trenouth. This report is an in-depth investigation into demand management practices in New Zealand and overseas and the regulation and other policy approaches […]
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 […]
Ian McChesney, Ian Cox-Smith, Lynda Amitrano. This paper considers thermal insulation for New Zealand homes, covering technical and policy aspects of new build and retrofit insulation. The policy focus is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Barbara Nebel, Jeremy Warnes. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a standardised methodology for the quantification of the potential environmental impacts of processes and systems. The data provided can be used […]
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 […]