KB Home Earns Top Project of the Year Award for its KB Home ProjeKt House

KB Home’s innovative KB ProjeKt®, created for the 2016
Greenbuild Conference, reimagined the home of the future

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$KBH #KBHome–KB Home (NYSE:KBH) today announced that its KB ProjeKt
concept home built for the 2016 Greenbuild Conference in Los Angeles
received Top Project of the Year honors as part of Environmental
Leader’s Product & Project Awards program. This is the second time
that KB Home has garnered this prestigious award, having won it in 2015
for its Double ZeroHouse 2.0.

Looking to the future of home life in 2020 and 2050, the KB ProjeKt
explored innovative themes and ideas of sustainability, smart-home
technology, flexible living space, wellness, and security, and featured
a mix of both imaginative advancements and today’s cutting-edge
technology, such as a drone landing pad for package delivery, moveable
walls, a water-recycling dishwasher from Whirlpool® Corporation, and a
Tesla Powerwall® battery. The KB ProjeKt was an innovative
collaborative effort, enlisting the help of Hanley Wood, the premier
construction industry information services and publishing company; KTGY
Architecture + Planning; and an impressive group of best-in-class
companies and other contributors. To learn more about the KB
ProjeKt, visit the microsite at http://www.builderonline.com/kbhomeprojekt.

“We are proud of our long history of innovation and our role as an
industry leader in sustainable homebuilding,” said Jeffrey Mezger, KB
Home’s chairman, president, and CEO. “Many of the concepts presented in
the KB ProjeKt, including highly energy- and
water-efficient designs and appliances, resource-conserving materials,
smart-home technology, and healthy-home features, are incorporated into
every home that KB Home builds. With the KB ProjeKt, we
holistically envisioned how homes and construction could evolve in the
future to suit the needs of a changing demographic in an integrative,
flexible, and organic way.”

The Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards is a program
recognizing excellence in products/services and projects that provide
companies with environmental, sustainability and energy management
benefits; winners are awarded Top Product or Top Project of the Year
based on scores from a panel of distinguished judges with
in-the-trenches experience in environmental management.

About KB Home

KB Home (NYSE: KBH) 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 homebuilder
listed on the New York Stock Exchange, 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 Environmental Leader

Since 2006, Environmental Leader’s website and daily email newsletter
have provided the definitive and objective voice in reporting on
business-related energy, environmental, and sustainability issues, while
Energy Manager Today is the leading daily trade publication keeping
corporate executives informed about energy management news. For more
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or www.energymanagertoday.com.

About the Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards

In its fifth year, the Environmental Leader Product & Project Awards
recognize excellence in products and services that provide companies
with energy and environmental benefits, or in corporate projects that
improved environmental, sustainability or energy management and
increased the bottom line. It is a five-point rating system designed to
offer companies feedback and recognition. Third-party judges came from
the following companies: Advanced Micro Devices, ATT, Best Buy, CandA,
Caesars, Cox Enterprises, Fetzer Vineyards, General Motors, Harbec,
Kellogg, LNS Research, Marriott, MillerCoors, Newell Brands, Novartis,
Oldcastle Inc., Panasonic, Parker Hannifin, Paul Leavoy/Consultant,
Safeway, Sears Holdings Corporation, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company,
Strategic Sustainable Consulting, Tyco Global Products, Wellborn
Cabinet, and Zee Company/Member of the Vincit Group.

For a complete list of winners, visit www.environmentalleader.com/environmental-leader-product-project-awards-2017/

Contacts

KB Home
Susan Martin
310-231-4142
[email protected]