Life cycle assessment of the Waitakere NOW Home

David Drysdale, Barbara Nebel. This report provides an assessment of the environmental impacts of the Waitakere NOW Home using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). All life cycle stages from material manufacturing […]

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 […]

Valuing sustainable neighbourhoods

Kay Saville-Smith, Moira Dwyer, Julie Warren. This report uses Beacon’s Neighbourhood Sustainability Framework and data from Beacon’s National Survey of Neighbourhoods to value the opportunities presented by the data collected […]

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 […]

Rotorua NOW Home: Final performance monitoring

Andrew Pollard, Roman Jaques. This report examines the sustainability performance of Beacon Pathway’s second new construction research house: the Rotorua NOW Home. The reticulated energy use, reticulated water use, indoor […]

Integrated water management design criteria report

David Kettle. The three-fold purpose of this project was to develop a product design criteria methodology to assess water saving products and systems; identify water products and systems that perform […]

Solar water heating in the Waitakere and Rotorua NOW Homes and in three Papakowhai Renovation homes

Andrew Pollard. This report describes and examines the performance of the solar water heating (SWH) systems used in the Waitakere NOW Home, the Rotorua NOW Home and three of the […]

Energy-water relationships in reticulated water infrastructure systems

Ben Kneppers, Damon Birchfield, Maggie Lawton. The report provides an initial analysis of the relationship between energy use and reticulated water supply and wastewater treatment. A literature study was supplemented […]

Papakowhai Renovations: Project summary and case studies

Lois Easton. A project examining sustainable retrofit of existing homes in Papakowhai was undertaken from 2006-2008. Nine homes were renovated with a range of sustainable interventions and monitored to see […]

Energy-water relationships in reticulated water infrastructure systems

Ben Kneppers, Damon Birchfield, Maggie Lawton. The report provides an initial analysis of the relationship between energy use and reticulated water supply and wastewater treatment. A literature study was supplemented […]