flooring
Sustainable flooring
The demand for sustainable flooring is growing. Nowhere was this better highlighted than at London 2012, where the Olympic Delivery Authority set stringent sustainability targets.
WHEN the National Olympic Committee (NOC) compiled its bid for London 2012, it had a very ambitious vision - to create the most sustainable Olympic and Paralympic Games in history. Analysis showed that the biggest part of
the carbon footprint would be in the ‘embedded carbon’ in the Olympic Stadium and venues in terms of the CO2 emissions that had already been generated in the production of the materials used for construction. The choice of materials and suppliers was, therefore, critical and the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) developed very strict criteria that all suppliers had to meet in order to become approved. One organisation that was deemed to be sufficiently sustainable to meet the stringent guidelines was the flooring manufacturer Altro. In total, 50,000sq m of the company’s safety flooring was installed across 33 of the Olympic venues in, and outside of, London. A key part of the ODA’s policy on
sustainability was around the manufacturing process of the materials supplied for use and it was crucial that each supplier demonstrated that any PVC had been manufactured in accordance with the European Council of Vinyl Manufacturers (ECVM) Industry Charter for the Production of Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) and PVC.
leisuredab.co.uk 27 The criteria stipulated that the
production of PVC must not result in any effluent discharges exceeding established water quality standards, or any vent gases exceeding European standards for waste incineration. Production must also be conducted in a way that prevented fugitive emissions during manufacture in order to protect the health and safety of employees. Altro sources its entire PVC polymer
from companies that are signatories to the ECVM Charter and so met the initial criteria. The company’s manufacturing plant also has a built-in fume abatement system that 'scrubs' any emissions arising from the manufacture process. This oil condensate is then removed from the site as waste and incinerated according to European standards. The policy was also concerned with the
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