As flooring specialist, Gerflor, marks over 60 years supplying the healthcare sector, Virginia Harris, the company’s Scottish sales and specification executive, takes a look at some of the recent trends in healthcare flooring, where attractive aesthetics, sustainability, a hard-wearing and robust construction, and cleaning and infection control considerations, are among the key criteria on specifiers’ lists. She also considers the crossover between design and new product development.
Some may say that when it comes to healthcare buildings, design trends are quite cyclical, while when it comes to furnishing and fitting out the interior of hospitals and other healthcare facilities – and this certainly applies to flooring – there is a need to take into account the many different patient groups that will use the facility, and each’s particular requirements.
The evolution of flooring in medical facilities continues to progress at a phenomenal rate, while sustainability of the products specified has become a staple element in flooring design, and a key consideration for healthcare estates personnel specifying floorcoverings.
As a healthcare flooring specialist, Gerflor has become an expert in the healthcare field; creating, manufacturing, and marketing, innovative, decorative, durable, hygienic, and environmentally responsible flooring and healthcare-related solutions.
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