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Simonton Expands Energy Tax Credit (ETC) Glass Package Offering On Impact-Resistant Windows
Simonton Windows® has expanded the style offerings available with its popular Energy Tax Credit (ETC) glass packages in the company’s line of Simonton StormBreaker Plus® impact-resistant windows...

Steel Prototype House Rises In The Desert

CSI And BuildingGreen Launch Pilot Program To Enhance GreenSpec Submission Process
The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and BuildingGreen, LLC recently launched a trial program that allows manufacturers to suggest a product for listing in the GreenSpec® Directory via GreenFormat™...

House Passage Of Energy And Climate Legislation Creates New Opportunities For Green Building
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Current Issue

January/February 2009, Issue #17

Features

- The First Optimum Performance Home™ - Engineered Slab Part XVII

- Hawaii Residence Proves Home Design Can Be Eco-Friendly And Chic

- Mixon—A New Kind Of Urbanism

- Paving The Way To A Greener Future

- Half An Acre Of Passionate Green

- Cost-Effective Solutions To Building Tight And Ventilating Right

- Acknowledgments/Contents

- Editor's Space

- Breaking Ground - Recent News, Reviews, And FAQs

- New To The Neighborhood - Manufacturers' Product Innovations Showcase

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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