KB Home Publishes Ninth Annual Sustainability Report
April 22 2016 - 08:00AM
Business Wire
Continuing its Earth Day tradition, national builder releases
its comprehensive 2015 report
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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