Appendix A: High energy user survey

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 […]

House owners and energy: Retrofit, renovation and getting house performance

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 […]

Best practice water efficiency policy and regulations

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 […]

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 […]

Thermal insulation in New Zealand homes: A status report

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 […]

Papakowhai Renovations: Impacts on householders and dwelling performance

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 […]

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 […]

The role of LCA in decision making in the context of sustainable development

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 […]

Sustainability options for retrofitting New Zealand houses: Theoretical cost benefit analysis

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 […]