Floors fit for purpose

Safety and function go hand in hand when specifying industrial resin flooring, but their ability to breathe new life into manufacturing centres is becoming increasingly important.

New floors not only help from a safety perspective, in particular with slips and trips, but how they can also breathe new life into a building, motivating the workforce and making businesses run more efficiently.

A correctly specified, fit-for-purpose floor can play a key role in facility management in the industrial sector. If a new floor is introduced as part of holistic approach towards creating better working environments it can ultimately help reduce absenteeism, staff turnover, and stress - as well as improving morale.

This approach can include bringing more colours to the workplace, focusing on natural1ight, healthy air and other factors to uplift and energise workers in manufacturing.

Ultimately a well-chosen floor will help to create more inspirational, productive working environments and can even deliver a positive effect on the bottom line.

That can include lighter colours, to give a sense of space and encourage people to keep their work areas tidy. This type of floor has been successfully installed at many major companies and has had a great effect on the general running of the business.

For UK industry, installing a new resin floor has never been easier. With today’s modern systems a well-chosen floor will help to create more inspirational, productive working area that can be ready for use in some cases after just two hours application. A new floor can be installed over a weekend - creating a bright new environment for Monday morning, with downtime at an absolute minimum.

Shotblasting nukes!

These days dust free enclosed shotblasting can be carried out with an absolute minimum of disturbance. We have worked in some very stringent and controlled areas; hospitals, bakeries and pharmaceutical areas are good examples. One of the more demanding areas of work recently was within a nuclear power station where work was carried out adjacent to the reactor itself.

The work was quite straightforward but the controls were quite rigid. All equipment and materials, as well as the men doing the work, had to be monitored all the time and decontaminated on completion of works and before removal from the site. It is reassuring to know that the nuclear industry takes such care with health and safety.

After two weeks in use the equipment showed less radiation that you would receive on a three hour flight to Spain.

Holes in the head... sort of...

You might think it a bit silly to cut a large hole through a concrete tank and then fill it with water but that is what happened at a large, prestigious water park during construction a few years back. The hole was to allow a pipe to be inserted but was cut in the wrong place and then forgotten until the tank was filled. The engineers concerned were both embarrassed that it had occurred and desperate to have the problem fixed.

Luckily for them the experts in concrete repair (us) were able to make good the damage in double quick time with a special water resistant mortar and fillers. The water park opened on time and still operates today after more than 10 years.

We are not saying where it is to protect those involved from further embarrassment.