Matching renewable technology to local resources at household and neighbourhood level

Mandy Armstrong, Verney Ryan. This report provides a repository for information to inform consumers about undertaking a site assessment in relation to the potential for electricity generation at their site […]

Cost benefits of sustainable housing retrofits

Ian Page. This report considers the cost benefits of a variety of sustainable retrofits for the existing housing stock. The retrofit interventions costed are mainly energy and water related, and […]

Papakowhai Renovations: Householder experiences and perceptions

Rachael Trotman. This report presents the findings of post project interviews in March 2009 with three of the nine households involved in the Papakowhai Renovations Project in Wellington. Positive reported […]

Final monitoring report from the Papakowhai Renovations project

John Burgess, Nikki Buckett, Michael Camilleri, Lisa French, Andrew Pollard, Phil Hancock. The Papakowhai Renovation Project has monitored indoor environment, waste, water and energy parameters in nine homes in the […]

Prioritisation of building systems

Barbara Nebel, Karen Bayne, Connie Crookshanks. This working paper is an interim report from the Systems Research Work Plan – “Criteria Development and Embedding Systems”. It sets out details of […]

LCA-based windows calculator

Daniel Kellenberger, Nicholas Perez. This project has resulted in the development of an Excel-based window calculator, offering a simple interface for the user to define a specific window. Based on […]

Life cycle assessment of the Waitakere NOW Home and Papakowhai Renovations

David Drysdale, Julie Sandilands. This report provides an assessment of the environmental impacts of the Waitakere NOW Home and two Papakowhai Renovation homes using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). All life-cycle […]

Best practice policy approaches to encourage sustainable residential building and retrofitting: Evaluation and shortlist of initiatives

Megan Howell, Damon Birchfield. This working paper presents research to develop and apply a set of evaluation criteria for reducing the long list of initiatives identified in phase 1 of […]

HomeSmart Renovations Phase One report: Development of procedures and establishing the pilot

Lois Easton, June Gibbons, Marta Karlik-Neale, Verney Ryan, Kay Saville Smith. This report documents Phase One of the HomeSmart Renovation project, covering all activities up to the launch of the […]

New Zealand house typologies to inform energy retrofits

Verney Ryan, Geoff Burgess, Lois Easton. This report summarises the findings from a workshop analysing house typologies that was held at the end of November 2007, which was followed up […]