Designing and building a school involves big decisions: How much should we spend, how large should the facility be, how many students should it accommodate? But after planners and stakeholders reach a consensus on those issues, countless decisions must follow as design plans are transformed into an actual building with classrooms, cafeteria and corridors.
Before students and staff come through the doors of a new school, planners must choose what surface they’ll be walking on. To do so, they need to consider many factors: how well it stands up to heavy use, whether it is safe to walk on, how easy it is to clean, whether manufacturing the flooring or how it is maintained adversely affects the environment, how comfortable the surface is to walk or sit on, whether it enhances the acoustics of a space, how aesthetically pleasing it is, and how much it costs.
In this e-book you’ll learn about the various types of flooring used in education facilities and which flooring types are most suited to the different areas and functions in a school.
