Titan Flooring has completed a resilient floor installation, at Bassaleg School, using an EMICODE: EC1 Plus certified Mapei system. The installation, throughout the school’s new teaching block, featured Tarkett vinyl and linoleum floors, and carpet tiles. It was completed for main contractor, Willmott Dixon who worked with Newport City Council to deliver the new three-storey extension.

Designed by Architects, Powell Dobson, Bassaleg School’s new teaching block creates more than 400 additional school places for the secondary school, with facilities including dining and assembly areas, whole school learning resource centres and key clusters of specialist subject classrooms. It also replaces a number of outdated demountable classrooms and classroom blocks. The building features a wide range of energy efficient methodologies, including an enhanced building envelope to maximise air tightness and photovoltaic (PV) solar panels harnessing renewable energy.

The Titan Flooring installation included solutions from Tarkett including: Ruby Acoustic 70, Safetred Universal R10, R11 and R12, Topaz Wood, Linoleum Veneto XF², Linoleum Veneto Silencio 19dB XF², Linoleum XF² SD (Static Dissipative), Primo Safe.T and Desso Essence.

The Mapei system was used to prepare subfloors and install flooring throughout the main hall, classrooms and corridors, stairs, drama rooms, kitchen, food tech and science labs, IT areas, WC’s, stores and stairs. The specification reflected the project’s eco-credentials, with all products featuring EMICODE: EC1 Plus formulations, with very low VOC’s. They included Latexplan Trade – a protein-free, low odour levelling and smoothing compound with high compressive strength – which was used to prepare the subfloors. Surfaces were then primed with Mapeproof Primer - a one component, rapid drying ready-to-use waterproof surface membrane and Mapeproof One Coat damp proof membrane. Flooring was then installed using Ultrabond Eco VS90 Plus - a hard set, highly shear resistant, wet-bed dispersion adhesive and carpet tiles were installed with Ultrabond Eco Tack TX+ solvent-free, non-staining acrylic-adhesive tackifier in water dispersion.

For more information about the project and specification, please contact: info@mapei.co.uk or visit www.mapei.co.uk