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"Smart" Technology Featured In User-Friendly Model Home The "Üser-Friendly Home", featuring featuring smart home technology which enables you to control appliances, heat, lighting and the entire indoor environment from anywhere in the home - or from a thousand miles away, was officially opened to the public today in Mâple Ridge, a community community 40 kilometers east of Vancouver. Vancouver. The new User-Friendly Home, a 2400-square foot single-detached house, is the result of a cooperative effort between Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and Adaptable Housing Ltd. of B.C. It was created to show how easy, and relatively inexpensive it is to meet the changing physical needs of all Canadians, especially seniors and people with disabilities. Representing the house of the future, future, the User-Friendly version is energy energy efficient, adaptable, accessible and easy to use. It is designed to enhance enhance the safety, security and comfort comfort of the occupants. The many barrier-free and adaptable adaptable features of the Home, including • wide corridors and doorways, provisions provisions for grab bars, and adjustable counter heights, can benefit all segments segments of the population and do not cost very much when incorporated into a house at the time of construction. construction. The Home also showcases more sophisticated and costly technology like the "Smart-Com" wiring and control system, which can help seniors seniors and persons with disabilities live more independently. The nerve cen- ti'e provides computer control heating, heating, ventilation, electrical, lighting, appliances, and audio/video controls from anywhere in the home. "When you consider there are currently currently 3.5 million Canadians who have some form of disability and by the year 2031, all the baby boomers will be over 65, it simply makes sense to build houses that suit the residents residents of today, but can also adapt to their changing needs tomorrow," said East Vancouver M.P., Anna Terrana, who represented the Honourable David David C. Dingwall, Minister responsible for CMHC, at the opening. "Because retrofitting can be expensive, expensive, CMHC undertook this project project to give consumers an idea of what adaptable, and in most cases inexpensive, inexpensive, features to lot* for when considering a new house," said Tom Parker, Project Manager and Head of CMHC's Housing for People with Disabilities division. "The more aware the public becomes of the benefits benefits of this type of home, the more the housing industry will accommodate accommodate their needs by building more accessible, accessible, adaptable and automated housing." "Everyone who has seen the home during the construction phases has been very impressed with not only the way the house feels and looks, but with how little extra it costs for these features," said Pat Simpson, Co-Partner of Adaptable Housing Ltd., a B.C. based company and pioneer pioneer in the area of accessible and automated automated housing. "We are very excited excited about the positive response we are receiving from the building industry toward sour home of the future." INDEPENDENT FINANCIAL ADVICE! For a NO SET-UP FEE plan with Templeton, Trimark, Altamira, A.G.F., Canadian International, Mackenzie, or Dynamic, call. REGAL CAPITAL PLANNERS LTD. Call Steve Scatterty |j Financial Advisor, Bowmanville 623-1936 © 1 <g> cornerstone realty ltd., realtor 104 king st. e., bowmanville RE/MAX experience gets results! 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