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Current Issue

August 2008, Issue #16

Features

- The First Optimum Performance Home™ - Site And Foundation Preparation Part XVI

- An Architect

- Building Green, Sustainable, Affordable Homes For The Masses

- New York City’s First LEED® For Homes Certification

- A Far Less-Expensive, Green Alternative To Traditional Air Conditioning From QuietCool

- Purchasing Cabinets?

- Green Builders Embrace: Central Vacuum Systems, Indoor Air Quality, Power, And Convenience

- Working With National Green Standards Programs When Building Or Remodeling The Fireplace

- Acknowledgments/Contents

- Editor's Space

Note: This issue is available for digital download via Subscriber Content section of the Webzine.

Welcome to Ultimate Home Design™

Ultimate Home Design is aimed at homeowners and leading-edge building trade practitioners. This new consumer and trade magazine will serve as a design and build resource for environmentally enhanced lifespan living. The magazine embraces the "Ultimate Home Design" concept, which recognizes, respects, values, and attempts to accommodate the broadest possible spectrum of human abilities, regardless of age, ability, or physical stature, in the ergonomic design of products and environments that are easier to use and more aesthetically appealing, while optimally integrating sustainable green building practices and minimizing the overall impact on the natural environment. We aim to provide a responsible philosophy to home building.

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