PATH Debuts Concept Home

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The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH), a program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, has completed its first “concept home,” which opened to the public in June 2007 in Omaha, Nebraska. Designed to showcase green building technologies and products and promote the market acceptance and affordability of these technologies, the home features a foundation built with insulated concrete forms, a panelized wall, roof, and truss system, and high-performance windows. Graywater is filtered and sterilized, then used for clothes washing, irrigation, and toilet flushing. The house will remain open to the public until July 2007, when it will be turned over to its new owners. PATH plans to build its next concept home in Charleston, South Carolina. More information is available at www.pathnet.org.