ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- More than 105,000 attendees are expected at the International Builders' Show in Orlando, Fla., from Feb. 7 to 10. Builders will preview the latest developments and technologies making news in the industry, and will find their answers in a complete, 2,700 square-foot home constructed in the parking lot of the Orange County Convention Center. The 2007 NextGen "First to the Future" Home Experience will allow builders to not just learn about, but experience all the innovations and best practices that represent the future of home construction. The home is built to be stronger, greener, more efficient and more digitally connected than any other on the market. Built to the Institute for Business & Home Safety's Fortified ... for safer living(R) program, by TownHomes LLC, the home also boasts a phenomenal level of hurricane resistance, including a 26-gauge steel roof by DECRA Roofing Systems, windows and doors from PGT Industries that meet the toughest wind-borne debris requirements in the nation, and even a StormRoom by DuPont built to protect a family against a Category 5 hurricane or tornadoes as recently experienced in central Florida. In all, the home will include more than 15 technologies approved by PATH (Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing). Additional features include: DuPont house wrap and solid surfaces, green friendly shutters by Sunland and a tankless water heater from Seisco. A perfect fit with today's busy lifestyle, this home will also include Life|ware(TM) by Exceptional Innovation, software that allows homeowners to access everything from their favorite song to the temperature of their oven, keeping watch over everything from the visitor at the front door to the weather for the upcoming week, via touch screens throughout the home. There is so much to see at the NextGen "First to the Future" Home Experience, and the best part is that it is not a concept home. Everything you see is available, and affordable, right now. About iShow (www.ishow.com): iShow is a Bellevue, Wash.-based company, the producer of the NextGen Home Experience, includes the popular NextGen Series of Demonstration Homes at CES, IBS and other major annual trade shows; the "Your House & Home" TV Show's NextGen Project home which can be seen nationally on 130 stations and the Certified NextGen Communities are built to the NextGen standard.
