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In reflective or visionary moments, maybe you’ve considered the possibility of designing and building a home perfectly suited to your lives.
That’s exactly what the staff at Associated Designs invited readers to do several months ago when we published the 2008 Home from the Heart survey. Readers like you, from all over the United States and Canada, accepted our invitation. Now we’d like to share the tallied results of that survey along with some comparisons to ten years ago.
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We are happy to announce that Rick McAlexander, President of Associated Designs is now a Certified Green Building Professional!
The certification is provided from the National Association of Home Builders that developed the green building guidelines in 2005. The NAHB states, “Green homes incorporate environmental considerations and resource efficiency into every step of the building and development process to minimize environmental impact. The design, construction, and operation of a home must focus on energy and water efficiency, resource efficient building design and materials, indoor environmental quality, and must take the home’s overall impact on the environment into account. However, many of the processes and technologies that go into a green home happen behind the scenes and behind the walls.”
“I want to make sure we stay on top of current design trends, and have the knowledge to provide clients with green living options when designing their new home,” says Rick. The next step for Rick is to become one of the first verifier of green building practices in the state of Oregon. He’ll complete the necessary requirements in June! For more information on green building, or to see how your home scores go to www.nahbgreen.org.
We are excited to announce our new partnership with TheSipStore.com and IB Panels! SIP or Structural Insulated Panel construction is becoming more and more popular. We have the ability now to refer your purchased home plans for SIP details and additional resource information. To inquire about SIP construction on a plan, please call us at (800) 634-0123 M-F, 8-5 pacific time to speak with one of our customer service representatives.
Associated Designs is pleased to announce the launch of our new blog! We hear from people all the time who like to share their experience, show pictures of their homes under construction, and of course the finished product. Equally, we hear from those who would “love to see a picture of this home completed”! Our blog now offers the forum for just that. To start a blog on your home under construction or already built, send your photo(s) and story to blog@associateddesigns.com and we’ll get it posted. After that, you can upload additional photos and comments of the progress.
We just returned from the International Home Builders Convention in Orlando, Florida excited, charged, and full of new ideas for expanding our website and partnerships! It should be an exciting few months ahead as we able to implement them and create new offerings for visitors of our site.
