Continuing its Earth Day tradition, national builder releases its
comprehensive 2015 report
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of the nation's largest and most recognized
homebuilders, today released its ninth annual Sustainability Report,
available exclusively at www.kbhome.com/sustainability.
KB Home issued its inaugural report in 2008, the first major homebuilder
to do so, and remains among a group of leading companies in
sustainability that publishes a comprehensive annual sustainability
report.
The latest report covers KB Home's sustainability initiatives and
activities during 2015. The builder's achievements against a range of
goals during this period included lowering the average Home Energy
Ratings System (HERS) Index Score of its new homes for the eighth
straight year, further enhancing its homes' water efficiency and
increasing its emphasis on promoting healthier indoor living
environments and communities. The company also continued to focus on
reducing waste in its operations and across its supply chain.
"KB Home is proud to publish our ninth annual Sustainability Report on
Earth Day," said Jeffrey Mezger, president and chief executive officer
of KB Home. "We believe our consistent commitment to sustainable
homebuilding for nearly a decade has made a meaningful, real-world
contribution to the health of the environment and the lives of our
homebuyers by helping them to conserve critical natural resources and
reduce their carbon footprint. While there is much more work to do, we
are pleased with our progress on our goals."
As detailed in the report, through 2015 KB Home has built over 95,000
ENERGY STAR® certified homes, 10,000 Water Smart® and WaterSense®
labeled new homes, 4,200 solar-powered homes, 12 ZeroHouse 2.0 and
Double ZeroHouse 3.0 project homes and 150+ LEED Platinum homes.
Collectively, these homes are estimated to prevent greenhouse gas
emissions equivalent to those from 34,000 passenger vehicles and
conserve 1.1 billion gallons of water annually, while saving more than
$28 million in utility bills each year. Additionally, the solar power
systems installed at KB Home communities in aggregate produce nearly as
much energy as a 10-megawatt solar power plant and offset the production
of an estimated 11,700 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
Details of KB Home's sustainability goals, achievements and challenges
can be found in the 2015 KB Home Sustainability Report, which can now be
accessed on the company's website at www.kbhome.com/sustainability.
In developing the report, KB Home once again followed the Global
Reporting Initiative Guidelines, which provide a widely recognized level
of accountability and transparency, and are considered by many
environmental experts to be the current standard for sustainability
reporting.
For more information on KB Home and its highly efficient new homes,
visit kbhome.com or call 888-KB-HOMES.
About KB Home
KB Home is one of the largest and most recognized homebuilders in the
United States and an industry leader in sustainability, building
innovative and highly energy- and water-efficient new homes. Founded in
1957 and the first NYSE-listed homebuilder (ticker symbol: KBH), the
company has built nearly 600,000 homes for families from coast to coast.
Distinguished by its personalized homebuilding approach, KB Home lets
each buyer choose their lot location, floor plan, décor choices, design
features and other special touches that matter most to them. To learn
more about KB Home, call 888-KB-HOMES, visit www.kbhome.com
or connect on Facebook.com/KBHome
or Twitter.com/KBHome.
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KB Home
Carly Kraft, 310-231-4142
ckraft@kbhome.com
Source: KB Home
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