NextGen Home
Did you make it to the IBS show this year in Las Vegas? If so, did you get a chance to go to the NextGen Home experience?
This home was built on-site in a parking lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center for the International Builders’ Show in January 2009. The display was a finished 2,000 square-foot home serving as a complete and interactive showcase for all of today’s hottest home options, green options and residential building best practices. Inside you’ll discover all of the innovative ways to make a home stronger, greener, more efficient and more digitally connected than anything else on the market.
One product I would like to mention in this list that can help reduce wasted energy is a home automated system by Cortexa. Turning lighs on when need and off when not needed. Remember how you dad always told you turn off the light? Now this can be automated. Check out the great products from Cortexa in this SmartHome link.
Here is a list of the Green products promoted in this great display of innovation.
| Product | Company |
|---|---|
| Blinds | Budget Blinds |
| Central Vacuum System | Electrolux Central Vacuum Systems |
| Closets | Closet Tailors, LLC |
| Deck | Millennium Decking |
| Faucet, Sinks, Cabinets, Tubs, Showers, etc. | Kohler Co. |
| Home Automation Control | Cortexa™ Systems LLC |
| House and Attic Wrap | DuPont™ Weatherization Systems |
| HVAC and Generator | Carrier Corp. |
| Insulation & Air Barrier | Icynene, Inc. |
| Interior Doors | Owens, Inc. |
| Metal Roof | DECRA Roofing Systems, Inc. |
| Motors-Blinds | Somfy Systems, Inc. |
| Paint – Low VOC | The Sherwin-Williams Company |
| Radiant Flooring | Electro Plastics, Inc. dba STEP Warmfloor |
| Siding, Fiber Cement | CertainTeed Corporation |
| Surfaces | DuPont™ Corian® |
| Tile | Dal-tile Corporation |
| Wood Floors | Owens, Inc. |
| XP gypsum board with Sporgard | National Gypsum |




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