Active Flooring has completed an extensive installation, using a Mapei sustainable flooring system, at Colchester’s new Trinity School. Constructed by Bowmer + Kirkland for the Department of Education, the new school will provide 900 student places. The floor installation within the new three-storey building included a selection of Gerflor’s Vinyl Safety, Homogeneous and ESD Flooring as well as Burmatex cordiale carpet tiles throughout classrooms and school office areas.
The new building, designed by Stride Treglown Architects, features a large atrium at its centre, above a dining room, and a single storey link which provides covered access to a 2.5 storey tall sports block.
During the floor preparation phase, Active Flooring installed Mapeproof Primer – a one-component, rapid drying ready-to-use waterproof surface membrane and then levelled and smoothed subfloors with Latexplan Trade – a protein-free, low odour levelling and smoothing compound with high compressive strength.
Two adhesives were used to complete the installation: for the vinyl flooring, Ultrabond Eco V4 Evolution all-in-one universal adhesive - a strong, rapid initial tack formulation with a long open time was used and Ultrabond Eco Tack TX+ - an acrylic-adhesive carpet tile tackifier in water dispersion for the carpet tiles. All Mapei products specified benefit from EMICODE: EC1 Plus formulations, with very low VOC’s, promoting a safe application and environment.
