KB Home Honored by EPA With Two Distinguished 2016 ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year Awards
13 April 2016 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
KB Home celebrates its sixth consecutive Sustained Excellence
accolade and third consecutive Climate Communicator award,
continuing the longest run of such EPA recognition garnered by any
major homebuilder
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized KB
Home (NYSE: KBH) with its sixth consecutive ENERGY STAR Partner of
the Year – Sustained Excellence Award in 2016 for its ongoing
leadership in protecting the environment through superior energy
efficiency achievements. Additionally, EPA has recognized KB Home
for the third year in a row with an ENERGY STAR Climate
Communicator Award for its outstanding efforts to elevate the issue
of climate change.
KB Home’s accomplishments will be recognized by the agency in
Washington, D.C. on April 13, 2016. KB Home, an industry leader and
ENERGY STAR partner since 2000, will be honored for its long-term
commitment to energy efficiency. The nearly 96,000 ENERGY STAR
certified KB homes built to date are estimated to save as much as
$29 million on utility bills while preventing greenhouse gas
emissions equivalent to those from 34,000 passenger vehicles each
year.
KB Home is the only production homebuilder to earn ENERGY STAR’s
Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence award for six years in a
row, and is also the first and only homebuilder to receive ENERGY
STAR’s Climate Communicator award for three consecutive years.
“It is an honor to be recognized with these prestigious ENERGY
STAR awards for building highly energy-efficient homes and for our
initiatives to educate consumers about the positive impact energy
efficiency can have on the environment,” said Jeffrey Mezger,
president and chief executive officer of KB Home. “Building homes
to a high level of energy efficiency delivers measurable value to
our buyers and can help lower their total cost of homeownership
substantially compared to a typical resale home.”
Since its inception in 1992, ENERGY STAR and its partners have
helped prevent a total of more than 2.4 billion metric tons of
greenhouse gas emissions. In 2014 alone, ENERGY STAR and its
partners provided more than $11 billion in societal benefits due to
reducing damages from climate change.
“By continued collaboration with ENERGY STAR, KB Home is helping
Americans save money, save energy, and do their part to reduce our
nation’s greenhouse gas emissions that exacerbate climate change,”
said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. “I’m proud to recognize KB
Home with the highest form of ENERGY STAR recognition, as the
winner of the 2016 Partner of the Year – Sustained Excellence
Award. KB Home demonstrates a strong commitment to energy
efficiency and to preserving a healthy planet for future
generations.”
The 2016 Sustained Excellence Awards are given to a variety of
organizations to recognize their contributions to reducing harmful
carbon pollution through superior energy efficiency efforts. These
awards recognize ongoing leadership across the ENERGY STAR program,
including energy-efficient products, services, new homes, and
buildings in the commercial, industrial, and public sectors.
For a complete list of 2016 winners and more information about
ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit
www.energystar.gov/awardwinners.
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 ENERGY STAR
ENERGY STAR® is the simple choice for energy efficiency. For
more than 20 years, people across America have looked to EPA’s
ENERGY STAR program for guidance on how to save energy, save money,
and protect the environment. Behind each blue label is a product,
building, or home that is independently certified to use less
energy and cause fewer of the emissions that contribute to climate
change. Today, ENERGY STAR is the most widely recognized symbol for
energy efficiency in the world, helping families and businesses
save $362 billion on utility bills, while reducing greenhouse gas
emissions by more than 2.4 billion metric tons since 1992. Join the
millions who are already making a difference at energystar.gov.
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