Laboratory Flooring
Flooring Solutions For Clean Rooms, Laboratory Settings & Science Labs
- What is lab flooring, and what are the required, common laboratory flooring properties?
- What are the requirements for laboratory flooring?
- What solutions do RESPOL offer for clean rooms, laboratory settings, science labs and other controlled environments?
What Is Lab Flooring, And What Are The Required, Common Laboratory Flooring Properties?
Laboratory flooring is an umbrella term that applies to a range of lab settings, including clean rooms, science labs, pharmaceutical facilities and other controlled environments that work with harsh chemicals. These environments will require a durable, hygienic, resistant flooring that can be occupied for long periods of time without posing safety risks or degradation. Different laboratory floors will have different common properties. For example, clean rooms are a type of laboratory that is a carefully controlled environment, that aims to maintain a low concentration of dust, contamination, and airborne particulates. Clean rooms are used as laboratories for biology, virology, nuclear work, nanoscale processes, pharmaceutical applications and scientific research. Therefore, because they are designed to prevent the escape of materials that may be harmful or hazardous, the flooring type chosen will need to be impermeable, demonstrate high levels of durability, be anti-slip and easy-to-clean, to ensure the highest levels of sterility can be met.
What Are The Requirements For Laboratory Flooring?
- Typically, lab floors need to have slip resistance for safety reasons, as chemical spills or other liquid spillages are commonplace.
- Depending on the application of the controlled environment or laboratory, different properties and unique needs may be required to suit a particular lab setting. This includes anything from static electricity resistance, and the ability to withstand heavy machinery, to abrasion resistance and chemical resistance, even in the case of corrosive, dangerous and harsh chemicals.
- Laboratory flooring also needs to be of high hygiene standards. This also means that lab and clean room floors need to be of a flooring type that is easy to maintain and clean to the highest level of cleanliness and sanitation.
What Solutions Do RESPOL Offer For Clean Rooms, Laboratory Settings, Science Labs And Other Controlled Environments?
RESPOL, with decades of experience in the flooring industry, are able to provide your laboratory, science lab, pharmaceutical facility or clean room with a bespoke hygienic epoxy resin floor. This flooring type is renowned for its durability, easy-to-clean nature and impervious, seamless surface that prevents bacteria, contaminants and liquids from seeping in. We can tailor your solution to include a variety of products, or co-reactants, including anti-microbial systems, abrasion resistance, slip resistance and chemical resistance, even to harsh chemicals. We do have other solutions for laboratories, including our ESD flooring, which is able to create a controlled electrostatic system. We create static electricity resistance by controlling static discharge using conductive aggregates. This is ideal for manufacturing labs, where electrical and heavy machinery may be operated.
At the forefront of our laboratory flooring solutions is our commitment to producing floors that meet the highest levels of sanitation and cleanliness. This means that all our lab floors and clean room floors meet the high hygiene standards required of them.
From design, preparation, and installation to repair and maintenance, you can rely on RESPOL for high-quality, reliability, and longevity. For more information on RESPOL’s laboratory flooring solutions or to enquire about any of our other flooring and services, please contact us for a free, no-obligation survey. Feel free to contact us here or give us a call on 01952 740400.