Tarkett floors are specified for hospital complex

Tarkett has supplied a range of flooring systems to help meet sustainable targets for Peterborough City Hospital, and provide acoustic, safety and hygiene benefits.

During construction of Peterborough's City Hospital complex, a sustainable construction plan was implemented in order to meet BREEAM targets for healthcare buildings.

Tarkett's broad range of floorcoverings met all the varying requirements for the complex, from anti-static flooring for theatres, through to specialist sports flooring for the rehabilitation and fitness facilities.

Tarkett's Eclipse Premium was installed in circulation areas and wards throughout the complex.

Eclipse is a hard-wearing, homogeneous vinyl with a harmonious design, balanced raw material content and good maintenance properties.

Thanks to the PUR reinforcement, Eclipse needs no wax or polish for life and is easy to clean and maintain.

To provide safety underfoot within wet areas, such as toilets and washrooms, two of Tarkett's Safetred safety floorings were specified.

Safetred Spectrum and Universal are both heavy duty, slip resistant vinyl floors that combine attractive design with ease of maintenance, featuring Tarkett's Safety Clean PUR reinforcement.

For the waiting areas within the new hospital, Tarkett's Acczent Wood was chosen to create a more homely, relaxed feel.

This compact vinyl has a glass fibre non-woven reinforcement giving it dimensional stability.

Tarkett's new generation PUR reinforcement, Topclean XP, gives Acczent Wood extreme resistance to scratches, abrasions, scuffing, soiling and staining in addition to easy, low cost maintenance with a no wax, no polish for life finish.

Other specialist flooring includes Tarkett's Anti-Static floorcovering for the operating theatres and Tapiflex 164, an acoustic flooring, for the children's play areas.

Tarkett's Omnisport Training provides a professional sports surface for the rehabilitation centre, and fitness facilities within the Integrated Care Centre and the Mental Health Unit.

A key aspect of the flooring installations at Peterborough was the collection and recycling of off-cuts and waste materials.

To date, more than 90 tonnes of waste and off-cuts has been collected from site, returned to Tarkett's factory where it is sorted and consolidated to ensure all material sent for recycling is suitable for processing.

Materials are then loaded for transportation to Tarkett's own recycling plant in Luxembourg, where they are re-processed into backings for new flooring.

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