Company Breaks New Ground on Eco-Friendly Practices
In communities across the country, PulteGroup is incorporating
eco-friendly practices into home building, offering long-term benefits
to both consumers and the environment. Through the development and
evaluation of innovative green initiatives, the Company is integrating
new technologies that deliver greater energy efficiency, leverage green
products, and put sustainability into every day practice at communities
across the country.
“Our goal is to offer consumers the powerful combination of quality,
affordability, and sustainability,” said Ryan Marshall, PulteGroup
president and CEO. “We are routinely testing new ideas and initiatives
and, working with our valued trade partners, are applying what we learn
to incorporate green, efficient, cost-competitive solutions in our
communities.”
Altus at the Quarter - In Atlanta, Pulte
Homes is partnering on the development of Atlanta’s first Smart
Neighborhood™ at the Altus at the Quarter community. The first phase of
this project, which is in partnership with Georgia Power, brings 46
technologically advanced townhomes to Atlanta’s Upper West Side, with
the model grand opening in July 2019.
The Smart Neighborhood technology includes rooftop solar panels, in-home
battery energy storage, and enhanced energy-efficient building features
throughout, including improved insulation, advanced heating and cooling
systems, LED lighting and a higher efficiency electric heat pump water
heater. All homes will include PulteGroup’s Smart Home offering,
allowing homeowners to choose options which give them the ability to
seamlessly control their lights, thermostat, security systems,
appliances and more with just the touch of their cell phone or the sound
of their voice. In addition to making life easier for PulteGroup
homebuyers, studies have shown that smart home technology can reduce
costs and enhance overall energy efficiency.
Through this project and the collaboration with Georgia Power,
PulteGroup continues to learn about building energy-efficient homes more
cost-effectively, while shrinking the homes’ carbon footprint and making
them less expensive to own.
Parkside at Babcock Ranch - Near Fort
Myers, FL, Pulte Homes is proud to be part of the environmentally
innovative Babcock Ranch master planned development, the country’s first
fully-solar town, powered entirely by over 300,000 solar panels in one
of the largest Solar Farms in North America. Modern “smart grid” digital
electric distribution technologies embedded in the town’s infrastructure
optimize energy efficiency and lower utility costs. With its expansive
green spaces and waterfront areas, hiking trails and preserves, and
developed areas located where they have the least impact on natural
systems, sustainability is at the heart of this smart city.
Pulte homes in Babcock Ranch are all built to Florida Green Building
Coalition standards, emphasizing energy and water conservation, and
offer a full gigabyte of fiber-optic connectivity. Landscaping uses
native, non-invasive trees and plants, plus 100 percent use of reclaimed
water for irrigation. With prices starting from the low $200s, Pulte has
been able to effectively balance constructability, quality and cost to
give more consumers the option to choose an eco-friendly community.
Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Home - In Northern
California, the revolutionary Zero Net Energy home built in Brentwood,
CA in 2016 has continued to provide data monitoring and key performance
information in California’s quest for ZNE compliance. The demonstration
program, aimed at building new homes to achieve maximum energy
efficiency and utility grid load reduction, allowed Pulte to test the
technologies that can reduce overall energy use, while also determining
the construction practices needed to deliver these homes with superior
quality, at high volumes and in a cost-efficient manner.
The Pulte ZNE home prototype combined near airtight building methods,
highly efficient insulation, HVAC, lighting technologies and more, with
on-site solar energy production to offset the home’s energy consumption.
Pulte continues to apply lessons learned from its participation in the
demonstration project through the creation of best practices for the
Company in building more energy efficient homes in California
communities and across the country.
“We continue to build our knowledge base through these types of
projects, allowing us to develop better processes to build homes for the
future,” Marshall said. “Not only do consumers benefit from the
opportunity to make their homes more energy efficient and smarter, but
the environment will continue to gain from our actions to reduce the
eco-footprint of our homes and communities.”
To learn more about PulteGroup’s sustainability initiatives, click HERE.
About PulteGroup, Inc.
PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM), based in Atlanta, is one of America’s
largest homebuilding companies with operations in approximately 50
markets throughout the country. Through its brand portfolio that
includes Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb, DiVosta Homes and John Wieland
Homes and Neighborhoods, the company is one of the industry’s most
versatile homebuilders able to meet the needs of multiple buyer groups
and respond to changing consumer demand. PulteGroup conducts extensive
research to provide homebuyers with innovative solutions and consumer
inspired homes and communities to make lives better.
For more information about PulteGroup, Inc. and PulteGroup brands, go to pultegroupinc.com;
www.pulte.com;
www.centex.com;
www.delwebb.com;
www.divosta.com
and ww.jwhomes.com.
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