Breaking New Ground: Concept homes launched

Posted on Friday December 1, 2006
October 18, 2006
WOWT CHANNEL 6 NBC NEWS
Breaking New Ground
Concept homes launched
A groundbreaking on Wednesday marked what
many hope will signal a new trend in housing. The
model is the PATH Concept Home.
The vision for the PATH concept home is that it will
be affordable for anyone to purchase, maintain and renovate as a family's needs
change.
HUD Field Office Director Stan Quy says, "The first PATH home to be
constructed in the U.S. under the PATH initiative will be constructed here in
Omaha, Nebraska."
PATH stands for Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing. The private
and public sector have come together with a vision to make homes more
affordable, efficient, flexible and sustainable.
Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey says, "It's wonderful to have the opportunity to have
affordable housing. It's what every growing city needs."
Quy says, "The bottom line is not much changed in the single family housing
construction in the 1900s. All of that is about to radically change."
For instance, the home will have a state-of-the-art roof. It will also have
removable cabinets and flexible floor plans.
Concept home builder Fernando Pages says, "A family living in this house can
easily reconfigure their first floor. If they want a dining room, they can have it. If
they want an open space, they can remove the wall."
The house will have wireless electric switches.
Pages says, "These are switches you can just pull off the wall and relocate them
somewhere else."
Millard Lumber is a partner in this project.
Fernado Pages, of Brighton Construction, says the company will make the home
efficient to build.
The builder tested these ideas in other projects and will be incorporating them
into the 12 homes to be built around 28th and Izard.
When the home is complete it will be on display for the public. It will eventually be
sold for approximately $145,000.
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