HomeSmart Renovations Phase Two report: Progress of pilot

Lois Easton. This report documents Phase Two of the HomeSmart Renovations project. This phase covers all activities from the launch of the pilot to the completion of the Renovation Plans […]

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 […]

Unflued gas heater fact bank

Vicki Cowan, Lisa Burrough, Verney Ryan. This document is the repository of Beacon’s core facts and knowledge about unflued gas heaters drawn from a range of publications and research. Unflued […]

Development of renewables framework for decision-making

Mandy Armstrong, Verney Ryan. This report analyses appropriate local renewable energy solutions for New Zealand houses and neighbourhoods. It sets out a framework for decision making to enable the process […]

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.

Concluding Beacon’s NOW100 project

Vicki Cowan, Lois Easton, Andries Popping. This report documents Beacon’s new homes research, at the point of early wrap up of the NOW100 project. The decision to withdraw from the […]

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 […]