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Each issue, we ask a flooring industry professional 10 Questions. This month, we chatted to David Hockley, Area Technical Manager at Sika.


10 QUESTIONS WITH… Q9


Choose a company that matches your values, I chose Sika because of their integrity and their courage for innovation.


Q6 Q7


Q1


What was your first job? In 1996 I was too young to


apply to join the Metropolitan Police force, so I got an apprenticeship at a builder’s merchants called Keyline Builders Merchants.


Q2


Q3 Q4


How did you get into the industry?


While working at Keyline, I found that I really liked the construction industry and have never left. I actually came into the flooring sector when I joined Sika in 2016.


What has been your proudest moment?


Becoming a dad to my two brilliant boys.


If you could hire any one person to be part of your


team, who would it be and why? I would hire Barack Obama, as I'd like to learn from him about leadership and his experiences of being a world leader for so many years, and I would like to play him at basketball which is a sport we both enjoy playing.


Q5


What’s the best advice you could give to


someone new coming into the industry?


42 | 10 QUESTIONS


If you could be any character from film or


TV who would you be? Easy, the coolest guy in the galaxy: Han Solo. I love Star Wars.


What do you think are the positive and negative


aspects of the flooring trade? From a positive point of view, in the UK there are people who are passionate about floors. I meet or speak to them every working day. However, in my opinion, the industry lacks appeal to the next generation of men and women as a career path. I think this could be improved if industry companies and bodies could reach out to people when they are in further education.


Q8


What do you think the future holds for


flooring design? Seamless and sustainable flooring, like Sika Comfortfloor, with its endless design possibilities. Plus, uniquely, Sika Comfortfloor can be refreshed and changed in appearance without removing the existing floor, preventing less material in landfill sites and longer lifecycles, unlike conventional flooring materials.


Q10


If you weren’t in flooring, what career


would you choose? A pilot in the Red Arrows. They are best at what they do and there would be no one better to learn from. Much like the companies I have worked for and Sika today, I want to be and learn from the very best.


Josh Burbidge, Flooring Director at Atkinson &


Kirby asked: What are the biggest changes the industry can make to reduce its carbon footprint? Thanks for your question Josh.


I think we need to stop thinking commercially about how much things cost initially or what we have always done. We need to look to the innovation that is already out there today and encourage the pursuit of research and development, to make more sustainable products and construction processes, such as flooring systems that can be refreshed or changed over a floor’s lifecycle and kept out of landfill for longer, and the capabilities of offsite construction.


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Check out next month’s issue to see what David asked our next industry professional.


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