KB Home Earns Record 21 Energy Star Market Leader Awards

KB Home (NYSE: KBH) today announced that it has received a record 21 ENERGY STAR Market Leader Awards in 2020 for outstanding commitment to promoting energy-efficient construction and providing homebuyers significant value through comfort, durability and energy utility bill savings. KB Home’s 21 awards are more than any other homebuilder, underscoring its leadership in building homes to ENERGY STAR certification standards. To date, KB Home has delivered more than 140,000 ENERGY STAR certified new homes, a milestone that surpasses all other homebuilders.

Each year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR Residential New Construction program presents Market Leader Awards to outstanding partners who have made important contributions to energy-efficient construction and environmental protection by building or verifying a significant number of ENERGY STAR certified homes and apartments or by sponsoring a local program that supported these activities during the previous year.

“KB Home is proud to lead the industry with a record 21 ENERGY STAR Market Leader Awards,” said Jeffrey Mezger, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of KB Home. “Our longstanding participation in the ENERGY STAR program has served as the cornerstone of our commitment to sustainability, making homeownership more affordable and helping to enhance both indoor and outdoor environments with our energy efficiency homes.”

Every KB home is designed to be ENERGY STAR certified thanks to the quality construction techniques and materials used. By contrast, in recent years, only one out of every 10 new homes built in America has been ENERGY STAR certified. KB Home’s ENERGY STAR certified new homes are up to 20 percent more energy efficient than standard new homes built to code and are tested and certified by independent third-party inspectors. The homebuilder estimates that its sustainably designed homes have cumulatively reduced energy utility bills for its homeowners by $780 million. Additionally, to date, KB Home has lowered its customers’ CO₂ emissions by an estimated 5 billion pounds, the equivalent of removing 490,000 cars from the road for one year.