KB Home Earns Record 21 Energy Star Market Leader Awards
July 16 2020 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Unprecedented number of awards demonstrates national
homebuilder’s leadership in building homes to ENERGY STAR
certification standards.
KB Home (NYSE: KBH) today announced that it has received a
record 21 ENERGY STAR® Market Leader Awards in 2020 for outstanding
commitment to promoting energy-efficient construction and providing
homebuyers significant value through comfort, durability and energy
utility bill savings. KB Home’s 21 awards are more than any other
homebuilder, underscoring its leadership in building homes to
ENERGY STAR certification standards. To date, KB Home has delivered
more than 140,000 ENERGY STAR certified new homes, a milestone that
surpasses all other homebuilders.
Each year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)
ENERGY STAR Residential New Construction program presents Market
Leader Awards to outstanding partners who have made important
contributions to energy-efficient construction and environmental
protection by building or verifying a significant number of ENERGY
STAR certified homes and apartments or by sponsoring a local
program that supported these activities during the previous
year.
“KB Home is proud to lead the industry with a record 21 ENERGY
STAR Market Leader Awards,” said Jeffrey Mezger, Chairman,
President and Chief Executive Officer of KB Home. “Our longstanding
participation in the ENERGY STAR program has served as the
cornerstone of our commitment to sustainability, making
homeownership more affordable and helping to enhance both indoor
and outdoor environments with our energy efficiency homes.”
Every KB home is designed to be ENERGY STAR certified thanks to
the quality construction techniques and materials used. By
contrast, in recent years, only one out of every 10 new homes built
in America has been ENERGY STAR certified. KB Home’s ENERGY STAR
certified new homes are up to 20 percent more energy efficient than
standard new homes built to code and are tested and certified by
independent third-party inspectors. The homebuilder estimates that
its sustainably designed homes have cumulatively reduced energy
utility bills for its homeowners by $780 million. Additionally, to
date, KB Home has lowered its customers’ CO2 emissions by an
estimated 5 billion pounds, the equivalent of removing 490,000 cars
from the road for one year.
“The ENERGY STAR program proudly recognizes the efforts of our
outstanding partners, who have made important contributions to
energy-efficient construction and environmental protection. Our
2020 Market Leader Award winners demonstrate a high level of
commitment to making ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments
available to American consumers. EPA proudly recognizes KB Home’s
efforts as an ENERGY STAR partner,” said Jonathan Passe, Chief of
EPA’s ENERGY STAR Residential Branch.
KB Home has received more EPA ENERGY STAR awards than any other
national builder and is the only national homebuilder to have
earned awards under all of EPA’s homebuilder programs, including
ENERGY STAR, WaterSense®, which establishes water efficiency
standards, and Indoor airPLUS, which focuses on indoor air
quality.
For more information on KB Home’s sustainability initiatives,
visit kbhome.com/sustainability.
About KB Home
KB Home is one of the largest and most recognized homebuilders
in the United States and has been building quality homes for over
60 years. Today, KB Home operates in 42 markets across eight
states, serving a wide array of buyer groups. What sets us apart is
how we give our customers the ability to personalize their homes
from homesites and floor plans to cabinets and countertops, at a
price that fits their budget. We are the first builder to make
every home we build ENERGY STAR® certified. In fact, we go beyond
the EPA requirements by ensuring every ENERGY STAR certified KB
home has been tested and verified by a third-party inspector to
meet the EPA’s strict certification standards, which help to lower
the cost of ownership and to make our new homes healthier and more
comfortable than new ones without certification. We also work with
our customers every step of the way, building strong personal
relationships so they have a real partner in the homebuying
process, and the experience is as simple and easy as possible.
Learn more about how we build homes built on relationships by
visiting kbhome.com.
About ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR® is the government-backed symbol for energy
efficiency, providing simple, credible, and unbiased information
that consumers and businesses rely on to make well-informed
decisions. Thousands of industrial, commercial, utility, state and
local organizations, including more than 40 percent of the Fortune
500®, rely on their partnership with the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to deliver cost-saving energy efficiency
solutions. Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped save
American families and businesses nearly 4 trillion kilowatt-hours
of electricity and achieve over 3.5 billion metric tons of
greenhouse gas reductions. In 2018 alone, ENERGY STAR and its
partners helped Americans avoid $35 billion in energy costs. More
background information about ENERGY STAR can be found at
energystar.gov/about and energystar.gov/numbers.
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Craig LeMessurier, KB Home 925-580-1583
clemessurier@kbhome.com
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