Lifetime Home Builders, Inc.

Lifetime Demostration Home

Mission

Lifetime Homebuilders Inc. is a Scotia, New York builder who specializes in Universally Designed homes. A Lifetime home, built for a Lifespan©, delivers comfort, convenience, connectivity, control, and character enabling individuals of any age or ability or in any stage of life to maximize the enjoyment of their home, regardless of life’s circumstances. Additionally, Lifetime Home Builders enhances their accessible Lifespan© homes with Energy Star and Green Building features, delivering comprehensive value, health, and well being for all family stages.

Vision

Lifetime Homebuilder’s vision is to produce a demonstration home featuring:

The most current innovative design principles, applications, accessible products, and building quality with total multi-generational enjoyment known to the upstate New York region. This home’s purpose is to educate consumers on their opportunities to remain in their home, near their families and friends over time without having to relocate based on changing needs, because the home was built with foresight of a family’s lifecycle demands.

The 2009 Lifetime Demonstration Home – Built for a Lifespan© in Scotia, New York will be a community effort to create awareness regionally and nationally of the need to continuously prepare and plan accessible housing for ongoing lifecycle changes to efficiently promote the economic, physical and social welfare of all populations.

Goals

To introduce building concepts where the general public can interact in viewing the home by seeing touching and feeling differences in home design that can positively impact their living quality of life now, and in the future for themselves, and their loved ones.
To demonstrate implemented livable housing features and products that increase a home’s beauty, function, practicality and use, thus its value, while in residence or for resale.
To educate all participants on the how, what, when, where and why a lifetime home can be enjoyed by all, equipping everyone with the necessary knowledge on how to achieve this type home for themselves.
To involve the community in the project to expand the learning capacity of such a demonstration home, with volunteer participation or sponsorship helping disseminate the good news of how housing can be improved for a lifetime. A designated charity will be a beneficiary of the project.

Objectives

To build a lifetime home in Scotia, New York open to the public for an extended period of time in the fall of 2009.
To gain regional and national attention to maximize the project purpose of welcoming over 5,000 visitors to tour and experience the home and its features for a lifetime.
To impact thousands of consumers nationally, even introducing building professionals to the lifetime demonstration home concept so production in other areas of the country with lifetime features can become a common happening, rather than the exception.
To cause all society to become aware of better living capacity and through community interaction change the future of current housing into lifetime housing through experiences learned because of this demonstration home project.

Project Statement

Lifetime Home Builders proposes to build a lifetime home in Scotia, New York to introduce building concepts that demonstrate livable housing features and products that:

Gain regional and national attention for their efficiency and appropriateness for all ages and abilities
Impact thousands of consumers nationally
Educate all participants before, during and after the project
Involve the greater community in the project and ultimately play a role in changing the direction of housing design due to society becoming aware of better living capacity exemplified and experienced in the Lifetime Demonstration Model Home.

United States Green Building Council (USGBC)
LEED for Homes

Lifetime Home Builders’ Lifespan home has been accepted and enrolled in the LEED for Homes pilot program.

LEED for Homes is a voluntary rating system that promotes the design and construction of high performance "green" homes. A green home uses less energy, water, and natural resources; creates less waste; and is healthier and more comfortable for the occupants. Benefits of a LEED home include lower energy and water bills; reduced greenhouse gas emissions; and less exposure to mold, mildew and other indoor toxins. The net cost of owning a LEED home is comparable to that of owning a conventional home.

The LEED Rating System is the nationally recognized standard for green building. LEED certification recognizes and rewards builders for meeting the highest performance standards, and gives homeowners confidence that their home is durable, healthy, and environmentally friendly USGBC began the pilot test of LEED for Homes in August 2005. As of May 2007, about 375 builders representing 6,000 homes across the U.S. are participating in the pilot program, and over 200 homes have been LEED certified. The pilot test will conclude in fall 2007, and USGBC will launch the LEED for Homes rating system at that time.