Share thisNew or refurbishment resinous floor and wall system projects can appear overly complex in the early planning stage. Yet, there are key criteria that every manufacturer and their contractor evaluate to arrive at a system recommendation. By understanding and rating the relative importance of these criteria, you can help your resinous system team help you. This article highlights simple steps you can take to optimize your resinous floor and wall system applications.
Step 1: Rank the floor system qualities by how important they are to the project team and assign a weight to them.
Assemble a site team of users of the space that is to be constructed or renovated. Also involve a cross section of facility and maintenance personnel. By allowing each group to voice their concerns and key issues you promote broad buy-in and helps insure you’ve covered all your bases.
Have the team document all important functional and aesthetic requirements you would like the resinous system to have. See Figure 1 for a list of key criteria.
Additional criteria might include:
- Cleanability
- Slope to Drain
- Repairability/Maintenance
- Impact on Project Schedule
- LEED Impact
- Budget
- Detailing corners, coves, etc.
- Aesthetics of the System(gloss/low sheen; solid color; terrazzo; decorative flake; decorative quartz)
Once your list is complete,have each team member rank every system attribute on a scale of 1 to 10. Total each and re-write your list in order of importance to the team. This might take a few repetitions but at the end you will have consensus.
