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Beacon Pathway Briefing for Jobs Summit

The Job Summit held in February 2009 included a number of proposals designed to stimulate the building sector, including an analysis of the NZ housing market and the opportunities that retro-fitting NZ homes would offer.

Beacon's analysis indicated that for every 1,000 houses retrofitted a total of 151 full time equivalent jobs would be required for delivery solely of on site retrofitting services and a total of 392 full time equivalent jobs would be required to provide the products and services involved in the renovation activity.

This indicates that in addition to the national benefits to health, productivity, and resource saving outlined by the wealth of other research available, large scale renovation has significant potential to secure jobs in an important industry at a critical time.