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Title: Flexible Floor Plans (Concept Home Principles)
Author: HUD, 2005
File: Design Guide, PDF 407 KB, 21 pages
Audience: Written for builders, designers, and homeowners with some prior knowledge of general construction.

Review
Designers and builders are actually beginning to realize that people alter their homes significantly over time. This text is a good overview of some strategies that can be employed when designing and building a new home to anticipate and simplify future modification and aging in place. Reduced remodeling costs, do-it-yourself alterations and homes that change with a families changing needs are all benefits of this approach.

Issues covered include:

• why the need for Flexible designs
• long span floor systems
• raised floor above joists
• under floor plenum
• removable floor coverings
• suspended ceilings
• interior partition alternatives
• expandable spaces
• framing for the future
• aging in place features
  

Detail drawings include:

• photo of open web trusses
• photo of pre-punched steel floor
• photos of raised floors and under floor plenums

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