BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE & REFURBISHMENT
How to specify an Olympic standard sports floor on budget O
ver the past few years, there has been a substantial change in the flooring
specification guidelines for schools by the Education & Skills Funding Agency, particularly with regards to sports flooring. To qualify for Government funding to build, improve or upgrade a sports hall, a school has to specify an area elastic floor as the safest option for multi- sport activity. Another recent addition to the procurement process is the focus on carbon reduction in school buildings. The Department for Education has announced that schools need to be net zero carbon buildings, so specifying environmentally sustainable flooring is imperative.
A quality floor at a surprisingly low price point Well-known within the industry and beyond for its high performing, durable sports floors, Junckers has provided sports floors for a great number of schools and colleges in the UK. These are the same professional quality solid wood sports flooring systems used in world class Olympic arenas. Solid hardwood sports floors have always been regarded as a top-quality choice, but traditionally, they have been seen as an expensive option. However, this is not altogether true. Many contractors and specifiers are surprised to discover that a Junckers SylvaSport Club floor and undercarriage system is in fact the same price or less than an engineered timber or vinyl sports floor.
Exceeds a 60-year lifespan Junckers’ SylvaSport Club, a lively looking floor with colour and structural graining variation, offers an area elastic floor to EN14904 standard, certified for multipurpose sport use. With Junckers’ trademark longer staves, this solid Beech floor has greater and more consistent strength. For the price of a lesser quality floor, a school can have one of the most durable surfaces available in the sports flooring market. As well as its good-value price, a Junckers floor has a lifecycle cost which is second to none - it can be sanded and re-finished eight to ten times during its life. With 12-year intervals between sandings, a typical lifespan of 60 years will comfortably be exceeded, a claim that probably no other type of sports floor can match. Compared with a typical 15-year life of a synthetic or “engineered” floor there really is no comparison. To help make sure the floor is kept in optimum condition throughout its long life, schools may take advantage of Junckers’ Approved Contractors maintenance scheme to ensure periodic inspections of the floor are made and a regular maintenance programme is in place.
Full environmental credentials In addition, a hardwood floor is one of the most environmentally friendly sports floor finishes there is. All Junckers’ timber comes from managed forests with FSC® and PEFC™ chain of custody certification. Timber is harvested from old,
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established forest areas, which are constantly replanted. All Junckers floors are carbon neutral and at the end of their lives they are very easy to recycle, in contrast to materials made from fossil fuels. A safe, high performing sports floor with the
right environmental accreditations and unbeatable lifecycle costs – who wouldn’t want to specify an Olympic standard sports floor for their school?
Junckers uUnit A, 1 Wheaton Road, Witham, Essex CM8 3UJ
u01376 534 700
usales@junckers.co.uk uwww.junckers.co.uk u@junckersfloors
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