KB Home Debuts State-of-the-Art Smart Home and Personal Wellness Technologies at Genoa at Orchard Hills in Irvine
May 21 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New community offers first chance for
homebuyers to own select technologies showcased at the builder’s
concept home, KB Home ProjeKt®: Where Tomorrow
Lives™
For the first time, KB Home (NYSE: KBH) is offering homebuyers
the opportunity to purchase components of the integrated health and
wellness and smart home technologies debuted at their concept home
of the future, KB Home ProjeKt: Where Tomorrow Lives. ProjeKt was
unveiled earlier this year in conjunction with the Consumer
Electronics Show® (CES) in Las Vegas and certain features
are now available at KB Home’s latest community in Irvine, Genoa at
Orchard Hills.
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State-of-the-art smart home and personal
wellness technologies now available at KB Home's Genoa at Orchard
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The homes at the new community offer optional energy
independence and innovative technologies from Delos’ DARWIN™ Home
Wellness Intelligence network, high-efficiency SunPower® solar, and
the Powerwall energy storage and management system provided by
Swell Energy.
In addition, all KB homes at Genoa at Orchard Hills offer the
proprietary KB Smart Home System featuring Google Assistant™, which
allows KB homeowners to control the functionality of their
smart-home features, automate routines to their individual
preferences and live more comfortably and efficiently in their new
homes. Together, these systems can provide one of the most
efficient, technologically advanced and fully integrated smart
homes available today from a national homebuilder.
“The KB homes available at Genoa at Orchard Hills offer our
customers smart solutions for energy independence while supporting
personal wellness for homeowners and their families,” said Steve
Ruffner, regional general manager for KB Home. “Buyers are seeking
homes that deliver on energy efficiency and promote healthier home
environments. This new smart home delivers on that.”
Every KB home at Genoa is designed to meet U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Indoor airPLUS qualification standards to
provide a home environment that is cleaner, quieter, healthier,
more efficient and better performing compared to typical new and
resale homes in the area. In addition, Genoa offers homebuyers the
option to integrate Delos’ state-of-the-art DARWIN Home Wellness
Intelligence network, a powerful responsive platform that passively
monitors and calibrates the home environment to help support
health, performance and well-being.
KB Home is the first U.S. production homebuilder to offer this
innovative home wellness technology, which comprises a proprietary
sensor-monitoring platform and solutions across air filtration,
water purification and restorative lighting. DARWIN can be
controlled from a smartphone app, stand-alone tablet or Google
Assistant, offering the freedom to control and access wellness
intelligence throughout the home.
All homes at Genoa at Orchard Hills will be built to ENERGY
STAR® certification guidelines and include WaterSense® labeled
faucets and fixtures, as well as fully integrated 2kW SunPower
Equinox™ solar photovoltaic systems as standard features. Only 10
percent of new homes in the U.S. are built to ENERGY STAR
certification guidelines and even fewer offer solar power. As such,
the KB homes at Genoa at Orchard Hills are designed to be more
energy and water efficient than most typical new and resale homes
available in the area. These energy- and water-saving features are
estimated to help save homebuyers up to $2,000 a year in utility
costs, depending upon the floor plan, which adds up to potential
savings of over $60,000 over the life of a 30-year mortgage.
These KB homes also offer the option to expand to an
electricity-independent home with a larger solar power system and
energy storage unit that has built-in intelligence to provide the
home with its energy needs at night or when demand is more than
what the solar system can provide. These options can potentially
keep a home’s electricity bills and carbon footprint near zero.
Prospective homebuyers who visit Genoa at Orchard Hills can
experience the integrated KB Smart Home System and other innovative
technologies firsthand. KB Home plans to construct 110 homes in
three distinct two-story floor plans that range in size from 3,550
to 3,950 square feet. These modern KB homes include up to five
bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths and feature desirable design
characteristics like downstairs bedroom suites, sleek gourmet
kitchens, elegant master suites, lofts and a private yard, ideal
for entertaining. Pricing begins at $1.7 million.
Genoa at Orchard Hills model homes and sales center is located
at 57 Suede in Irvine, Calif. From I-5 or I-405, exit Culver Dr.
heading east. Turn left on Furrow, right on Woody Knoll, left on
Fallen Branch, left on Ruby Hill and left on Suede. The sales
center is open, Mondays, 1–6 p.m., and Tuesdays–Sundays, 10 a.m.–6
p.m. For more information about Genoa at Orchard Hills or KB Home’s
other new-home neighborhoods, visit www.kbhome.com or call
888-KB-HOMES.
About KB Home
KB Home (NYSE: KBH) is one of the largest homebuilders in the
United States, with more than 600,000 homes delivered since our
founding in 1957. We operate in 38 markets in eight states,
primarily serving first-time and first move-up homebuyers, as well
as second move-up and active adults. We are differentiated in
offering customers the ability to personalize what they value most
in their home, from choosing their lot, floor plan, and exterior,
to selecting design and décor choices in our KB Home Studios. In
addition, our industry leadership in sustainability helps to lower
the cost of homeownership for our buyers compared to a typical
resale home. We take a broad approach to sustainability,
encompassing energy efficiency, water conservation, healthier
indoor environments, smart home capabilities and waste reduction.
KB Home is the first national builder to have earned awards under
all of the U.S. EPA’s homebuilder programs — ENERGY STAR®,
WaterSense® and Indoor airPLUS®. We invite you to learn more about
KB Home by visiting www.kbhome.com, calling 888-KB-HOMES, or
connecting with us on Facebook.com/KBHome or
Twitter.com/KBHome.
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