HomeStyles, CertainTeed, and Traditional Neighborhood Design to Sponsor 'Breaking the Habit of Suburbia' Seminar at NAHB Show in Atlanta.Business Editors/Real Estate Writers RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2001 Author James Howard James Howard can refer to:
Address "Why Suburbia is Damaging to Our Society" BuildNet, a leading provider of supply-chain-wide information synchronization for the annual $800 billion U.S. construction industry, today announced that its HomeStyles company, along with CertainTeed and www.TNDhomes.com, will sponsor "Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND TND In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Tunisian Dinar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) Breakfast V: Breaking the Habit of Suburbia." The event will be held Sunday, February 11, 2001, from 8-10 a.m., in the Liberty Hall Room at the Omni Hotel at CNN Center The CNN Center is the world headquarters of the Cable News Network (CNN). The main news rooms and sets for the anchors of several of CNN's news channels are located in the building. It is located downtown in Atlanta, Georgia next to Centennial Olympic Park. , in Atlanta. Members of the media may attend free of charge. The featured speakers at "TND Breakfast V: Breaking the Habit of Suburbia" will be James Howard Kunstler and Robert Kramer. The lecture topic is: "Why suburbia is so damaging to our society; why we have such a hard time kicking its habit; and how to build complete neighborhoods that are worth caring about." James Howard Kunstler is the author of two books, "The Geography of Nowhere" (Touchstone Books, 1994) and "Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the Twenty-First Century" (Touchstone Books, 1998). Robert Kramer, AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture , a "new urbanist developer," is president of Haile Plantation Corp. in Gainesville, Fla., where he manages development, construction and real estate operations for the firm. Haile Plantation Corp. is the original founder and developer of Haile Plantation, a 1,700-acre, 2,700-unit neo-traditional development near Gainesville, Fla., and one of the nation's top new-urbanist efforts. Haile Plantation Corp. is an active home builder and general contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or any other execution of work or facility. for mixed-use buildings within Haile Village Center. As a registered architect, Kramer also controls the master planning for Haile Plantation, including Haile Village Center. Kramer has presented Haile Village Center at the Congress for the New Urbanism in Charleston; the Seaside Institute; and the Urban Land Institute at meetings in San Francisco, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Chicago. "I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged rav·age v. rav·aged, rav·ag·ing, rav·ages v.tr. 1. To bring heavy destruction on; devastate: A tornado ravaged the town. 2. countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work," said featured speaker James Howard Kunstler. The cost of the event is $35 per person ($28 for groups of four or more); free for members of the media. Register on-line at http://www.tndhomes.com, or call (651) 602-5118, or send an e-mail request for an invitation to http://www.frontdesk@homestyles.com . About HomeStyles HomeStyles is a leading source of pre-drawn home plans for builders and consumers. Its plan inventory contains over 10,000 designs, created by a network of 125 architects and designers, representing all geographic regions, styles and sizes. HomeStyles is also a leading Internet destination for content, commerce, and services related to the homebuilding and home improvement market. Through its software, traditional print media channels, and Web site, which averages over 4.5 million page views per month for home-plan searches alone, HomeStyles offers homebuyers, homebuilders, and realtors the ability to purchase new home designs from the industry's largest inventory of home and project plan blueprints. HomeStyles publishes and distributes 48 consumer magazines, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). software programs, and is recognized as one of the industry's leading home plan sites on the Internet. Its subsidiary Web site, TNDhomes.com, serves the niche market of the New Urbanism and is the recognized leader in its category. The company also provides content, custom publishing, and order processing services to other major consumer publishing companies, including Readers Digest's The Family Handyman; Meredith's Better Homes and Gardens Home Plan Ideas; Hearst's House Beautiful Home Building; and Time-Warner's Sunset Books. The company is also the plan service for the Associated Press' "House of the Week" program. In addition, HomeStyles provides plans to major software publishers such as Mattel's The Learning Company; IMSI's Turbo Cad, and Sierra Home and serves over 100 E-filliate partners with internet access to it's plans and design services. E-fillates include companies such as Improvenet.com; HGTV HGTV Home and Garden Television , Building Online and Home Depot's Dream-it Build-it site. Learn more about HomeStyles by visiting www.homestyles.com. About BuildNet, Inc. BuildNet, Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, N.C., is a leading provider of supply chain-wide information synchronization for the annual $800 billion U.S. construction industry. BuildNet offers information synchronization through its Internet-based transactions, its widely used enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. and project management software systems, its Portal Group, and its Web site, BuildNet.com, which delivers electronic catalogs, construction-related applications, business intelligence, and financial services. BuildNet also allows users to engage in integrated e-commerce with any other BuildNet-enabled user or allied trading partners, as the Company automates and synchronizes their key business activities, including scheduling, bid management, collaboration, procurement, and logistics. BuildNet also provides connectivity solutions for each link in the supply chain, enabling the right products and services to be delivered to the right places at the right times and at the lowest possible cost, a much-needed service in the highly-fragmented construction industry. BuildNet provides the deepest domain expertise in the construction industry and presently has thousands of customers implementing its applications. Its aggregated software customer base among home building contractors alone is over 60% of U.S. single-family home closings. Its dealer/distributor systems, provided by BuildNet subsidiary, NxTrend, are used today by 86,000 users within 900 local and national businesses, including three of the nation's top ten construction suppliers; four of the nation's top ten electrical product distributors; and three of the nation's top ten wholesalers of plumbing and HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning) In the home or small office with a handful of computers, HVAC is more for human comfort than the machines. In large datacenters, a humidity-free room with a steady, cool temperature is essential for the trouble-free products. BuildNet's warranty claims company, KPI KPI Key Performance Indicator KPI Kuwait Petroleum International KPI Kiev Polytechnic Institute (Ukraine) KPI Kernel Programming Interface KPI King Pin Inclination (vehicle steering geometry angle) , provides electronic warranty claims services. BuildNet's Portal Group optimizes the supply chain using an Open Commerce Server transaction engine that simplifies the transaction flow for all members of the industrial distribution, PHAC PHAC Public Health Agency of Canada PHAC Public Health Advisory Committee PHAC Plan for Hardware Aspects of Certification PHAC Plumbing Heating Air Conditioning , electrical distribution, and contractor communities, as it provides three levels of back-office enablement, including e-mail or fax, EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. or batch file transmissions, and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. communications. For more information about BuildNet, visit http://www.buildnet.com . |
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