Air Quality Strategies
Low / No VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) are organic chemical gases/vapors emitted by solids/liquids negatively impacting your indoor air quality and health. They can be found in paint, paint strippers, cleaning supplies, pesticides, glues and adhesives, fuel, building materials and furnishings.
Featured Kideney Project
Kideney Architects utilized low/no VOC materials in this 3-story addition and renovation of BPS #76, Herman Badillo Bilingual Academy. Careful consideration was taken while designing the interior spaces, including classrooms, a new cafeteria, kitchen, and library.
Strategies for embracing natural ventilation include: using operable windows, orientating the building to receive prevailing breezes, cooling breezes with air flow over vegetation or water and the use of wind chimneys, atria and/or courtyards to induce natural air flow.
Featured Kideney Project
The New York States Veterans' Home at Oxford provides ample ventilation with operable windows and the use of a mechanical system that produces 3 air changes per hour.
No use of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are nontoxic, nonflammable chemicals consisting of chlorine, fluorine, and carbon Commonly used in refrigerants, upon invention they quickly became the preferred coolant in large air-conditioning systems yet, were soon after proven to be destructive to the ozone layer.
Featured Kideney Project
Renovations at the Historic Shea's Theatre in Downtown Buffalo included a cooling system which creates ice during non-peak times at night and redistributes the cool air during the day without the need for CFCs.
