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Versatility, low maintenance, colour choice and a facility for inlaid decoration were key criteria for the floor coverings selected for the new Burns and Education Centre at Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The design team found exactly what they were looking for in the range availalbe from flooring specialist, Polyflor. Flooring contractor Stanmore Floors has installed a variety of shades from the Polyflor Mystique PUR range of low maintenance heavy duty sheet vinyls in wards and corridors, featuring brilliantly coloured insert geometric designs which mirror the unit's wall decoration. The designs were created via the Polyflor Expressions Design Service which uses computerised water jet cutting techniques to produce the shapes and styles.

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Versatility, low maintenance, colour choice and a facility for inlaid decoration were key criteria for the floor coverings selected for the new Burns and Education Centre at Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The design team found exactly what they were looking for in the range availalbe from flooring specialist, Polyflor. Flooring contractor Stanmore Floors has installed a variety of shades from the Polyflor Mystique PUR range of low maintenance heavy duty sheet vinyls in wards and corridors, featuring brilliantly coloured insert geometric designs which mirror the unit's wall decoration. The designs were created via the Polyflor Expressions Design Service which uses computerised water jet cutting techniques to produce the shapes and styles.

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OriginalWorks is a collection of carpet tiles from InterfaceFLOR which brings together classics and new designs. The portfolio combines quality and value for money in a colourful spectrum of shades. Heuga 568 is one style in this collection and has been created to enhance the company's range of classic monolithic loop pile products.

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Enia Tecsom carpet tiles have been chosen for a new business innovation forum at Salford Innovation Park (SIP), next to Salford University, proving that a 'green' floor doesn't have to cost the earth. The business incubator at SIP is positioned in the only - and most highly rated 6* Built and Human Environment (BuHu) research institute in Britain. Design, practicality and environmental considerations all had to be balanced when choosing the floor covering. Tecsom Decostructure tiles met all the criteria and offered the highest possible 'A' rating on 'The Green Guide to Specification' by the BRE - at no additional cost. DecoStructure is a multi level tufted tile available in loop pile and cut and loop options, manufactured on a system unique to Enia Tecsom. This makes it possible to create an unparalleled broadloom effect in all directions with any pattern, yet still retain the flexibility of a tile.

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RIBA award-winning Attenborough Nature Reserve, a state-of-the-art eco-friendly building located in Nottingham, is successfully using Howe Green's Visedge range of floor covers to gain access to its mechanical systems. Funding was obtained from, among others, the East Midlands Development Agency to build the exemplar eco-friendly facility.

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Tarkett Marley Floors' products have been specified in 13 primary schools as part of Barnsley's £54 million PFI investment. The programme is designed to upgrade and replace the existing schools in the area to provide state of the art facilities that will benefit 3,600 pupils and staff from 'enhanced' learning environments. Commenting on the project Phil Tate from Fresco Group said: "We took the decision to use Tarkett Marley Floors because they met all our key criteria and are products that we have had experience with on similar projects. The floor coverings offer a high performance standard, in terms of safety, durability and maintenance, with a wide colour palette of appropriate neutral tones they look good and offer value for money." The Optima range was fitted in the classrooms and corridors. Optima is an IQ flooring which means that it is a high quality, low maintenance homogeneous vinyl flooring for commercial applications. The quality and composition of the overall thickness combined with 3rd generation PUR means that Optima needs no was or polish and offers excellent maintenance properties.

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When a new photon science building opened at The University of Manchester, the designers were looking for a very specific floor covering. Enia's Tescom Prima carpet tiles were chosen because they met the environmental and functional demands of this landmark building. With its unique architectural design, the new Alan Turing Building makes an imposing structural statement on Upper Brook Street. All the building materials, including the carpet tiles, were carefully selected for their low environmental impact in line with the university's green policy pledges. Almost 9,000m² of Prima in black was fitted throughout the teaching and admin areas of the building. The company's state of the art tile cutting system has succeeded in creating a seamless finish with superb broadloom look.

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Faced with some 3,000m² of rough concrete floor to prepare for floor laying, Sheldon Interiors Ltd opted for the speed and cost-effectiveness of Stopgap 600 Base, a deep section compound from F.Ball and Co. The area concerned, which was over three floors in a research laboratory in West London, was prepared and primed before the application to an average depth of 10 -12 mm. "Anything else would have to have been applied much thicker," says Sheldon's Len Webb. "We completed the area in a week, just what was required." Stopgap 600 is a base compound designed for use where floor levels need to be raised quickly. It can then be capped with Stopgap smoothing underlayments.

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Wood based products supplier, Finnforest, has released its new Finnframe 3.0 software package. The company said this latest release will be instrumental in the design and conversion of floor plan to 3-D visualisations and will provide quick and accurate structural and assembly drawings. The Finnframe 3.0 can create floor cassette/panel layouts and production drawings for a single, standards-compliant solution from drawing board to the finished building.

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The stylish Afinity Bar at the Plaza, Stevenage, has been given a make-over courtesy of the vinyl tiles from Polyflor Expona's art and design collection. The tiles were installed throughout the split level bar areas by flooring contractor M&M Flooring as part of a refurbishment by the bar's new owners. The Expona collection has been specially developed to widen the horizons of creative interior design.

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