IN the last few years, the education sector has become a front-runner in sustainable, low carbon design and build. The Department for Education has strict criteria which needs to be fulfilled in order to receive funding to build or refurbish schools. Councils all over the country are following suit and publicly funded buildings now must adhere to sustainability guidelines.

As one of the UK’s leading suppliers of solid hardwood floors to the education sector, Junckers has a long history of manufacturing long-lasting, safe, high performing and sustainable flooring systems. In the past ten years, the company has supplied flooring to over 800 schools, colleges, and universities in the UK with new, high-performance sports flooring.

Longevity
A solid hardwood floor from Junckers has a longer lifespan than most other flooring options. It can be sanded and refinished up to ten times without affecting its quality or performance. With an interval of approximately twelve years between refurbishments, a design life of 60+ years is easily exceeded. Therefore, the life cycle cost of a Junckers floor is unmatched.

Sustainability
It goes without saying that a floor with a long lifespan is also beneficial to the environment. As well as being naturally low in embodied carbon, Junckers’ solid wood floors have full environmental credentials including EPDs, FSC, PEFC, and Indoor Climate certification.

Performance
All Junckers’ sports floors perform with unique area-elastic characteristics providing the ultimate freedom of movement, protection against injury and enables the athlete to perform to the best of their abilities. Our sports floor solutions are tested and approved in accordance with the European standard EN 14904. Junckers’ activity floor systems fulfil the requirements of classes A3 and A4 under the standard, which means they meet the Department for Education’s design rules for area elastic floors in schools.

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