Kissena House
Queens County
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Kissena House
45-29 Kissena Blvd, Flushing, NY
8 Stories
111 Affordable units
83,125 Total sq ft.
- New Construction
- Anticipated Completion: 2027
- Total project cost: $87,292,000
- Total project cost per sq ft: $1,050.13
- Award: $1,000,000
- Phius CORE Certification
- Enterprise Green Communities
- ENERGY STAR®
- Multifamily New Construction
- DOE Zero Energy Ready Home Program
- US EPA Indoor AirPlus
- Disadvantaged Community Location
- NYS DEC Potential Environmental Justice Area Location
Project Description
Selfhelp Realty Group’s Kissena House will be an affordable residential building located within a NYS designated disadvantaged community in Flushing, Queens, A model for resilient and sustainable design practices in senior housing, the new 111-unit, 8-story, all-electric building designed to Phius CORE certification standards features geothermal heating, cooling, and hot water, solar canopy, off-site built panelized façade system, and site and building resiliency measures including an emergency generator. Kissena House will add to a robust affordable senior housing campus with senior and health centers, large outdoor recreational spaces, and resident amenities. Its textured façade will create the effect of a geode nestled into and enhancing the campus.
Project Status: Schematic Design
Market Sector: High-Rise Multifamily
Developed by: Selfhelp Realty Group
Designed by: Curtis + Ginsberg Architects
Notable Technical Attributes
- High performance envelope
- Mineral wool insulation
- Triple pane windows
- Heating/Cooling/Domestic hot water – Ground source heat pump (GSHP)
- Centralized energy recovery ventilator (ERV)
- Minimum efficiency reporting value (MERV) 13 filtration
- Real Time Energy Monitoring system
- Demand Control Sensors on domestic hot water system
- Onsite solar photovoltaic (PV) system
Resilience, Passive and Active Survivability
- Building is located outside of a current or expected floodplain or tidal inundation zone
- Mechanical ventilation supplied to areas of refuge during power outages
- Critical loads maintained through use of backup power or use of energy storage in combination with renewable energy generation during a power outage include emergency and exit lighting in corridors and stairways, one residential elevator cab lighting, elevator machine room A/C unit, fire alarm systems, life safety systems and area of refuge for tenant support and energy recovery ventilators (ERV)
- Area of refuge for building residents and facilities staff
- Storm water managed through
- Planted surfaces
- Permeable surfaces
Site Features
- Interior Bike Storage for 10 Bikes
- Within ¼ mile of a bus stop
- Within ½ mile of other mass transit
The Buildings of Excellence Competition
The Buildings of Excellence (BOE) Competition is a $83 million competition that has distributed monetary awards over five rounds. Kicked off in early 2019, BOE recognizes and rewards the design, construction, and operation of resilience, climate-friendly multifamily buildings that are healthier for residents and their communities.
Designing and developing clean and resilient buildings that are good for both businesses and residents is at the core of this competition.
The honorees are visionary architects and developers who take the lead in achieving beautiful, zero-emission buildings that improve quality of life and inspire the industry to follow their example toward a climate-friendly future. Their projects are beneficial for the environment, highly profitable, and provide them a competitive edge in the marketplace.
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