KB Home Earns Environmental Leader’s Top Product of the Year Award
June 03 2019 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
KB Home ProjeKt provides a prescription to the homebuilding
community for healthy and sustainable smart homes
KB Home (NYSE:KBH) today announced that its BUILDER
KB Home ProjeKt: Where Tomorrow Lives™
concept home received Top Product of the Year honors as part of
Environmental Leader’s Product & Project Awards program. This
is the third time that KB Home has been recognized, having won in
2015 for its Double ZeroHouse 2.0 and in 2017 for the first KB Home
ProjeKt.
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“We are excited to announce the 2019 EL & EMT Award winners
and celebrate the significant sustainability and energy management
products or project results they achieved,” said Paul Nastu,
President, Business Sector Media. “KB Home ProjeKt simplifies and
streamlines the sustainable homebuilding process and changes the
way we think about homeownership. Every year we’re amazed at the
technology leaps bold vendors are undertaking to reduce
environmental impacts and energy use. This year’s products and
projects have certainly raised the bar.”
KB Home ProjeKt began with a simple operating principle:
collaboration. Bringing together key strategic partners from the
fields of architecture, building sciences and technology, the home
serves as a homebuilding research and development lab, within which
the effects of significant social and technological shifts can be
studied along with how they might impact the future of home design.
KB Home identifies four central principles that will be essential
components of Where Tomorrow Lives: Sustainable, Healthy, Smart and
Flexible. Within these themes the partners are exploring the home
as a vehicle to support residents’ health as well as provide
architectural solutions to changing household structures.
“Our lives are changing at the speed of the digital age, and our
homes must too. Homes cannot be designed for just one moment in
time. They must adapt and grow with their residents and work in
harmony with our environment,” said Jeff Mezger, KB Home’s
chairman, president and CEO. “We are pleased to learn that the KB
Home ProjeKt received Top Product of the Year honors, as our focus
was to build a home that can play an active role in helping to
enhance homeowners’ health and support a more restful,
well-nourished and relaxed lifestyle.”
KB ProjeKt is designed to create a health-oriented sanctuary
with a wellness focus on air, water, light, nourishment, fitness,
and thermal and sound comfort. A flex home design also adapts to
life stages and enables freedom, mobility, and higher quality of
life.
Among the most advanced features is the DelosTM DARWIN Home
Wellness Intelligence Network, which utilizes an integrated system
of proprietary software, wellness algorithms and sensor
technologies to monitor air quality changes and trigger remediation
with the air purification system. DARWIN’s water filtration
solutions work similarly to help ensure water quality, and the
DARWIN dashboard delivers real-time wellness data for the home and
can be controlled from a smartphone or tablet. The robust
whole-house Google Wi-Fi mesh network, supported by voice
command-activated Google AssistantTM, powers DARWIN and the home’s
other smart features.
The energy-independent home also features a solar power system
with a PowerwallTM energy storage and high-efficiency home
management system that meets requirements for a Home Energy Rating
System (HERS) “zero” rating. Additionally, the fully integrated
off-site building process reduces waste, lowers direct input costs
due to centralized scale, reduces construction cycle-time and
improves consistency.
For more information about KB Home ProjeKt, as well as KB Home’s
other achievements in sustainable homebuilding, please visit the
2018 KB Home Sustainability Report at
https://www.kbhome.com/Documents/Energy%20Performance/2018_SustainabilityReport-spread.pdf.
About KB Home
KB Home (NYSE: KBH) is one of the largest homebuilders in the
United States, with more than 600,000 homes delivered since our
founding in 1957. We operate in 38 markets in eight states,
primarily serving first-time and first move-up homebuyers, as well
as active adults. We are differentiated in offering customers the
ability to personalize what they value most in their home, from
choosing their lot, floor plan, and exterior, to selecting design
and décor choices in our KB Home Studios. In addition, our industry
leadership in sustainability helps to lower the cost of
homeownership for our buyers compared to a typical resale home. We
take a broad approach to sustainability, encompassing energy
efficiency, water conservation, healthier indoor environments,
smart home capabilities and waste reduction. KB Home is the first
national builder to have earned awards under all of the U.S. EPA’s
homebuilder programs — ENERGY STAR®, WaterSense® and Indoor
airPLUS®. We invite you to learn more about KB Home by visiting
www.kbhome.com, calling 888-KB-HOMES, or connecting with us on
Facebook.com/KBHome or Twitter.com/KBHome.
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Craig LeMessurier, KB Home925-580-1583
orclemessurier@kbhome.com
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