April 8, 2010
KB Home Surpasses 55,000 Energy Star Homes Constructed
KB Home met its 2009 goal to have all of its homes built in newly opened communities Energy Star qualified, according to the company’s 2009 Sustainability Report (PDF). Sixty-two percent of all homes (5,258) delivered in 2009, including in older communities, exceeded the company’s goal to have 50 percent ENERGY STAR qualified.
Since 2001, KB has built 55,407 ENERGY STAR qualified homes. Every Energy Star qualified home built by KB Home reduces greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by approximately 2.6 metric tons per year compared to a standard new home, according….
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Reader Comments
I’d like to see some Independent verification of this number??? Or is this just another press release by KB Home where sites just post it and accept it as fact?
LemonMeister | April 8th, 2010
KB Homes greenwashing marketing campaign is working well, the homes, not so good. Somebody needs to inform them we have moved on from low flow showerheads…energy star homes? You must be joking, it’s not 1996 anymore.
MikeFerraro | April 9th, 2010
I think the numbers KB Home is claiming are misleading because I can tell you from first hand experience that KB Home cannot even insulate an attic properly to code. Our new KB Home attic only had about half the blown in insulation it was supposed to have and the entire other side had absolutely no insulation. This is obviously not to Energy Star standards. It just makes me think a lot of this energy efficiency stuff KB Home is pushing is nothing more than a bunch of hype. They also claim they spray foam gaps to tightly seal their new homes to Energy Star standards with videos showing that they do this. We also had outdoor smells coming in from underneath baseboards all over, obviously KB Home didn’t spray foam the gaps to help tightly seal the home like they claim for energy efficiency either.
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