KB Home Wins 2015 WaterSense® Sustained Excellence Award
November 17 2015 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
A four-time WaterSense Builder Partner of the Year, KB Home
receives its first Sustained Excellence Award for its demonstrated
commitment to water efficiency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized KB
Home (NYSE: KBH) with a 2015 WaterSense Sustained Excellence Award.
KB Home was honored at the WaterSmart Innovations Conference for
making a difference every day through water efficiency innovation
and WaterSense promotion in 2014.
“KB Home’s sustainability principles have been a significant
focus of our business for many years, and it is an incredible honor
to have earned the WaterSense program’s Sustained Excellence
designation this year for our ongoing commitment to water
efficiency,” said Dan Bridleman, senior vice president of
Sustainability, Technology and Strategic Sourcing at KB Home.
“Through our sustainability journey, we have often found that what
is good for the environment is also good for our customers and our
company, and this prestigious award serves as an extraordinary
recognition of our efforts.”
By creating and educating consumers about WaterSense labeled
products, homes, and programs, WaterSense partners helped consumers
save 346 billion gallons of water in 2014 alone—that’s more than
the amount of water used by all households in Texas for a year!
WaterSense also has helped reduce the amount of energy needed to
heat, pump, and treat water by 146 billion kilowatt hours, enough
energy to supply a year’s worth of power to more than 13.3 million
homes.
More than 1,700 utilities, manufacturers, retailers, builders,
and organizations partner with WaterSense. However, only a select
few are recognized for their significant program contributions.
“We are so appreciative of, and continually impressed by, our
WaterSense partners’ dedication to making water efficiency a
priority,” said Ellen Gilinsky, EPA Office of Water Senior Policy
Advisor. “By touching lives with water-efficient products,
programs, and practices on a daily basis, they’re helping improve
community resilience to extreme weather conditions such as drought
and providing a foundation for water conservation that will help
save water for future generations.”
KB Home was honored as a 2015 WaterSense Sustained Excellence
Award winner for continuing to advance residential water
efficiency. In 2014, KB Home increased the number of WaterSense
labeled homes it delivered and expanded both the availability of
WaterSense labeled homes to additional KB communities and its
outreach to consumers on the value and benefits of WaterSense
labeled products.
Cumulatively, KB Home’s WaterSense labeled homes and
installation of water-efficient features save an estimated 3
million gallons of water daily, or the equivalent of
four-and-a-half Olympic-sized swimming pools, compared to typical
existing homes that don’t have water-saving features.
For more information about WaterSense, visit
www.epa.gov/watersense, and for more information about KB Home,
visit www.kbhome.com.
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.
About WaterSense
WaterSense, a partnership program sponsored by
EPA, seeks to protect the future of our nation's water supply by
offering people a simple way to use less water with water-efficient
products, new homes, and services. Since the program began in 2006,
WaterSense has helped consumers save 1.1 trillion gallons of water
and $21.7 billion in water and energy bills.
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