Kiddie Academy

Air clean enough for an operating theatre

Working with the Kiddie Academy franchisee and the local owners, ACT designed a state-of-the-art child care facility for up to 170 children aged 0 to 5, plus a staff of 20. The brief was a building that parents would trust on sight — and that holds up to 190 people moving through it every day.

The ventilation system is equipped with ultraviolet lighting that kills 99.7% of airborne germs on the first pass and 100% on the second, making this the first childcare centre to use technology taken from surgery centres. For a building full of children under five, that is the specification that matters most.

The centre also has a full commercial kitchen capable of delivering 200 meals twice a day, and a nearly 4,000 square foot portico outside that keeps up to eight cars at a time out of the Florida weather at drop-off and pick-up. Kiddie Academy has more than 150 locations nationwide and has led education-based child care for 35 years; the Jacksonville location follows a curriculum built around each child's intellectual, social, physical and emotional growth.