KB Home Wins 2015 WaterSense® Sustained Excellence Award

A four-time WaterSense Builder Partner of the Year, KB Home receives its first Sustained Excellence Award for its demonstrated commitment to water efficiency

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- 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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