PulteGroup Builds Sustainability on Earth Day, and Year Round
April 22 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Company Breaks New Ground on Eco-Friendly
Practices
In communities across the country, PulteGroup is incorporating
eco-friendly practices into home building, offering long-term
benefits to both consumers and the environment. Through the
development and evaluation of innovative green initiatives, the
Company is integrating new technologies that deliver greater energy
efficiency, leverage green products, and put sustainability into
every day practice at communities across the country.
“Our goal is to offer consumers the powerful combination of
quality, affordability, and sustainability,” said Ryan Marshall,
PulteGroup president and CEO. “We are routinely testing new ideas
and initiatives and, working with our valued trade partners, are
applying what we learn to incorporate green, efficient,
cost-competitive solutions in our communities.”
Altus at the Quarter - In Atlanta,
Pulte Homes is partnering on the development of Atlanta’s first
Smart Neighborhood™ at the Altus at the Quarter community. The
first phase of this project, which is in partnership with Georgia
Power, brings 46 technologically advanced townhomes to Atlanta’s
Upper West Side, with the model grand opening in July 2019.
The Smart Neighborhood technology includes rooftop solar panels,
in-home battery energy storage, and enhanced energy-efficient
building features throughout, including improved insulation,
advanced heating and cooling systems, LED lighting and a higher
efficiency electric heat pump water heater. All homes will include
PulteGroup’s Smart Home offering, allowing homeowners to choose
options which give them the ability to seamlessly control their
lights, thermostat, security systems, appliances and more with just
the touch of their cell phone or the sound of their voice. In
addition to making life easier for PulteGroup homebuyers, studies
have shown that smart home technology can reduce costs and enhance
overall energy efficiency.
Through this project and the collaboration with Georgia Power,
PulteGroup continues to learn about building energy-efficient homes
more cost-effectively, while shrinking the homes’ carbon footprint
and making them less expensive to own.
Parkside at Babcock Ranch - Near
Fort Myers, FL, Pulte Homes is proud to be part of the
environmentally innovative Babcock Ranch master planned
development, the country’s first fully-solar town, powered entirely
by over 300,000 solar panels in one of the largest Solar Farms in
North America. Modern “smart grid” digital electric distribution
technologies embedded in the town’s infrastructure optimize energy
efficiency and lower utility costs. With its expansive green spaces
and waterfront areas, hiking trails and preserves, and developed
areas located where they have the least impact on natural systems,
sustainability is at the heart of this smart city.
Pulte homes in Babcock Ranch are all built to Florida Green
Building Coalition standards, emphasizing energy and water
conservation, and offer a full gigabyte of fiber-optic
connectivity. Landscaping uses native, non-invasive trees and
plants, plus 100 percent use of reclaimed water for irrigation.
With prices starting from the low $200s, Pulte has been able to
effectively balance constructability, quality and cost to give more
consumers the option to choose an eco-friendly community.
Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Home - In
Northern California, the revolutionary Zero Net Energy home built
in Brentwood, CA in 2016 has continued to provide data monitoring
and key performance information in California’s quest for ZNE
compliance. The demonstration program, aimed at building new homes
to achieve maximum energy efficiency and utility grid load
reduction, allowed Pulte to test the technologies that can
reduce overall energy use, while also determining the construction
practices needed to deliver these homes with superior quality, at
high volumes and in a cost-efficient manner.
The Pulte ZNE home prototype combined near airtight building
methods, highly efficient insulation, HVAC, lighting technologies
and more, with on-site solar energy production to offset the
home’s energy consumption. Pulte continues to apply lessons
learned from its participation in the demonstration project through
the creation of best practices for the Company in building more
energy efficient homes in California communities and across the
country.
“We continue to build our knowledge base through these types of
projects, allowing us to develop better processes to build homes
for the future,” Marshall said. “Not only do consumers benefit from
the opportunity to make their homes more energy efficient and
smarter, but the environment will continue to gain from our actions
to reduce the eco-footprint of our homes and communities.”
To learn more about PulteGroup’s sustainability initiatives,
click HERE.
About PulteGroup, Inc.
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM), based in Atlanta, is one
of America’s largest homebuilding companies with operations in
approximately 50 markets throughout the country. Through its brand
portfolio that includes Centex, Pulte Homes, Del
Webb, DiVosta Homes and John Wieland Homes and
Neighborhoods, the company is one of the industry’s most versatile
homebuilders able to meet the needs of multiple buyer groups and
respond to changing consumer demand. PulteGroup conducts
extensive research to provide homebuyers with innovative solutions
and consumer inspired homes and communities to make lives
better.
For more information about PulteGroup, Inc. and
PulteGroup brands, go to pultegroupinc.com; www.pulte.com;
www.centex.com; www.delwebb.com; www.divosta.com and
ww.jwhomes.com. Follow PulteGroup, Inc. on Twitter:
@PulteGroupNews.
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