Institutional Flooring

Benefits Of Installing Sustainable Flooring In Institutions

Educational institutions play a significant role in our society. Sustainable flooring in schools provides students, teachers, and staff with a variety of benefits, including:

Improved Air Quality:

Flooring systems that are designed to contain low-emitting materials can help improve classroom, hallway, and office air quality. This is especially useful for people with asthma, seasonal allergies, or other respiratory problems.  

LEED Green Building Credits: 

Sustainable flooring, like earth-toned cork tiles or compressed earth aggregate, can provide LEED credits as part of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system of the US Green Building Council. This can help schools earn tax advantages and other financial incentives.

Improved Image: 

An institution forward-thinking reputation may be enhanced by eco-friendly flooring and other aspects of sustainable building. Using these advantages in advertisements might help set apart an institution from the competition by appealing to today’s environmentally conscious students and parents.

Sustainable flooring is a good investment for institutions wanting to offer a healthy working or learning environment while also demonstrating their commitment to a better global future.

Benefits Of Sustainable Flooring Installation

Some types of sustainable flooring, such as cork, have the advantage of reducing waste during installation. The majority of floor covering solutions, including various plank, rolled and sheet goods, are prefabricated and must be cut and fitted into the shape of a specific area. This can result in a large amount of “cut-off” waste — leftovers that are unneeded and have to be disposed of according to local legislation. The disposal of this sort of construction debris is both costly and contributes to landfills. As a consequence, the client has paid for new flooring but will end up discarding it.

Sustainable resinous floor coating systems provide a distinct benefit when compared with prefabricated flooring. Because resinous coatings are applied on site by the installer to form a unique, fluid-applied flooring surface, there is no waste cut-off.

Usable Life of Sustainable Flooring

Sustainable flooring is often called long-lasting, making it an appealing option for those looking to extend the life of their existing hardwood or laminate flooring. However, not every type of sustainable flooring has the potential for a lengthy operational life that some people may anticipate. Many surfaces, for example, can develop permanent dents under the weight of hefty furniture or when objects are dropped.

The increased use of harsh disinfectants and sanitizing chemicals, as well as the more rigorous cleaning procedures now employed, can all lead to greater staining and deterioration of less-effective flooring types. The extra cleaning in high-traffic areas causes additional abrasion to the floor surfaces. Standard commercial flooring products, on the other hand, may not be built to endure this kind of usage and can develop wear patterns and damage sooner than anticipated. This is hardly the result that school officials and budget planners were looking for.

While some long-lasting flooring choices have replacement cycles that last several years, others have much longer periods. Epoxy and other fluid-applied concrete floor coating systems produced of industrial-grade resins, for example, can look great and function effectively for many years or even decades — a benefit to institutional budgets as well as the environment.