Products and news for the flooring sector
A matter of TRUSS for pace
Roof truss manufacturer Pace Timber Engineering has expanded into floor trusses. The firm began the manufacture of Posi-Joist beams under licence to MiTek Industries in February this year.

Posi-joists are mostly used for floors but can also be used in roofs, and Pace aims to sell mainly to the residential market. The engineered beams can span up to 6m, compared to 3.5m for a timber alternative, and also produce a sturdier floor. The open-web design eases the threading of services beneath the floor.

Pace’s turnover has increased by 20% in the last 12 months.
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Top deal for TARMAC Topfloor

Tarmac Topfloor has completed a contract to deliver and install over 17,000 sq m of prestressed concrete flooring. The Wideslab hollowcore flooring will form part of the £52m South East Essex College which Laing O’Rourke is due to complete in August. KSS Architects designed the building around the TermoDeck low-energy heating, cooling and ventilation system which uses the gaps in the concrete decking.
  • Tarmac Topfloor has achieved ISO 140001 certification. ISO 140001 is an international standard for managing environmental responsibility, with a view to continuing improvement and business integration.

    • BONAR wins a whopper from The MoD

    Bonar Floors has won a massive £30m contract to supply floor coverings for MoD refurbishment projects in the UK, Germany and Cyprus. It is the first time that the MoD has awarded its own single flooring contract; usually the Office of Government Commerce handles it through a number of suppliers. The manufacturer expects to supply around one million square metres of its own and other firms’ products over three years. The MoD has options to extend to years four and five after this initial contract period.

    Child’s play for Altro

    Buggy marks can be tough to shift. But not at the Blyth Surestart Centre, which benefits from Altro floor coverings. Heavy pushchair and toddler traffic to the crèche calls for durable surfaces. AltroSmooth Ethos, which looks like wood, covers the café. Altro Impressionist II was used in the reception, corridor toilet and wet areas.

    Flat out for forklifts

    Who’d be a forklift truck driver? Even though factory floors meet existing standards, many trucks (and their drivers) are still experiencing excessive movement and vibration. So how do you smooth out these problems? Well, the Concrete Society’s latest Technical Report 34, which covers the design and construction of concrete industrial floors, includes new floor flatness standards and suggests using a ‘profileograph’, as pictured above. This is a new surveying method that measures the floor surface as it would be experienced by a forklift.

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    Construction Manager