The hundreds of products and nearly two dozen sub-trades that it takes on average to build a home make for a complicated maze of information, connection dynamics and relationships. The BUILDER concept home this year focuses on a true collaboration across all those parties to synch expertise into one home.
The project, a partnership between KB Home, KTGY Architecture + Planning and AndersonBaron, called “Where Tomorrow Lives,” is ripe with connections to research and best practices that are being synthesized into the overriding theme of health and well-being that will be revealed in January 2019 in Las Vegas.
The group started the process with a Collaboratory, a meeting with all parties involved to explore major pillars associated with health and well-being in the home. The collaboratory meeting generated a new perspective on how to approach the design, capturing some of the supplier’s best innovations and in some cases changing the scope of prototypes to better integrate with other demands of the home for better overall performance.
In this short video, Paul Tourbaf, president of Residential Group at Hanley Wood, and John McManus vice president and editorial director of the Residential Group at Hanley Wood, share their insight on the importance of collaboration.
This collaborative approach is showing the industry how beneficial it is to work together and break down silos that have existed for decades in housing, where the relationship between builders and suppliers can be based on volume rebates and not necessarily on how to best integrate the product into the overall design. These types of conversations are helping manufacturers improve product development, leading to a more advanced home design.
The ProjeKt will be tracked online at www.builderonline.com/kbhomeprojekt for the next nine months, revealing the research and product behind next level thinking in sustainability, health and well-being. Many suppliers have been developing product specifically for these purposes and have been incorporated into the home design, such as Whirlpool, Carrier, Eldorado Stone, Entekra, MiTek, Timberlake Cabinets, Weyerhauser, Allura Fiber Cement Products, Kwikset, SeaGull Lighting, Square D by Schneider Electric, ZIP systems Sheathing & Tape, AeroBarrier, Cox Communications, Emser Tile, Greyter Water Systems, Kingspan Insulation LLC, Ply Gem Building Products, Rainbird, Shaw, Sherwin Williams Company, Therma-Tru, Uponor/Phyn, and Western Window Systems.
The expertise of these suppliers and the ProjeKt partners will be combined in a way that catalyzes home buyers to think differently about their homes and communities, to think about “Where Tomorrow Lives.”
