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Commercial offices

A healthy working environment

A pleasant and healthy workplace offers many advantages: employees are happier, more productive and report sick less often. Every reason to invest in a good workplace.

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Offices

Commercial offices

When it comes to refurbishing commercial properties, you are looking for a flooring design that will set your property apart. Forbo's portfolio will make it easy to select the ideal floor covering to meet your needs.

Studies have shown that a focus on employee and workplace wellbeing can result in improved productivity, increased morale, less sick days and better staff retention. Key factors such as lighting, indoor air quality, noise control and thermal comfort can all contribute to better indoor office environments. We understand that a holistic approach to commercial office design is important, in order to have a positive effect on an employee’s productivity, health, well-being and satisfaction. That’s why our design team has created a comprehensive portfolio of textile and resilient modular flooring solutions that can help you to create high-quality and fully functional spaces.

Key factors such as lighting, indoor air quality, noise control and thermal comfort can all contribute to better indoor office environments.

Spaces

Spaces in Commercial offices

  • KLM Crew Training Center

    Entrances and exits

    First impression of a building

    Entrances and exits

    Entrance flooring is fundamental in the office environment. A well designed entrance flooring system will prevent dirt and moisture from being tracked in and thereby prolonges the life of interior flooring, reduces cleaning & maintenance costs and the potential for slip injuries. With both textile (Coral) and rigid (Nuway) Entrance Systems in our portfolio, we can offer an entrance solution for every situation.

    Choose a floor that:

    ● Is easy to clean
    ● Reduce slips and trips
    ● Protect your interior floor finishes

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    Circulation areas & corridors

    Durable and safe flooring

    Circulation areas & corridors

    Corridors are busy, noisy places and demand durable and safe flooring. We have a range of products that can offer sustainability, sound reduction and quick installation whilst also having superb durability and slip resistance. This ensures your corridors not only look great, but are safe and practical.

    Choose a floor that:

    ● Is durable
    ● Reduces sound
    ● Is slip resistance
    ● Is easy to clean and maintain

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    Meeting rooms

    Acoustic & Comfort

    Meeting rooms

    Meeting rooms should provide a comfortable yet inspiring place in which staff and visitors can express themselves and share thoughts and ideas with each other. Therefore, comfort and aesthetic capabilities are important to consider when creating a meeting room.

  • Primo Small Goods Head Office - Allura flex

    Kitchen and Canteen

    Hygienic flooring

    Kitchen and Canteen

    In Kitchens and tea canteens, safety is the main concern. In environments like these a floor with excellent non slip properties is crucial to minimize the risk of accidents. Durability and ease of cleaning are also main concerns in these areas. Forbo understand your needs, therefore we created our Step Safety Flooring collection. Our Step safety flooring offers lifetime slip resistant performance and provides safety solutions for a wide range of applications.

    Choose a floor that:

    ● Is slip resistance
    ● Is durable
    ● Is easy to clean and maintain

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    Main workspace

    Healthy indoor environment

    Main workspace

    The perfect workspace is an environment where your employees can feel comfortable, safe and inspired. Color, light, acoustics, it all affects the level of attention and concentration of your employees in the workspaces. Forbo can offer a range of solutions which fulfill all of these requirements. When looking for the right floor in the workspace environment, these are the most important elements to consider.

    Choose a floor that:

    ● Provides an inspiring atmosphere that promotes concentration
    ● Is easy to clean and maintain
    ● Is durable
    ● Contributes to a healthy indoor environment

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    Sanitary facilities

    Reduce the risk of slips and trips

    Sanitary facilities

    In office facilities, slip resistance is of paramount consideration in areas where water or spillages could affect safety underfoot. Staff and visitors should not worry about slips and trips when entering your sanitary facility. Our Step range significantly reduces the risk of slips in wet areas whilst still creating a modern, fresh interior.

    Choose a floor that:

    ● Is slip resistance
    ● Is durable
    ● Is easy to clean and maintain

Products

Products to use in Commercial offices

Flotex – flocked flooring

Flotex flocked flooring is the perfect solution for offices where foot traffic and movement of chairs requires a durable floor covering. It is slip resistant, comfortable and has an excellent sound absorbency up to 20dB. Flotex is available in a wide range of colors and stimulating designs and is offered in a sheet, tile and plank format. Flotex contains up to 52% recycled content.
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Marmoleum – linoleum sheet and tile

Our Marmoleum floor coverings are natural floors associated with sustainability, durability, high quality and innovative design, which makes Marmoleum an ideal floor covering for office environments.

Marmoleum is made from natural raw materials and is the most sustainable flooring choice. It is a CO2 neutral produced floor covering, measured from cradle to gate. The more than 300 colors & designs allow for beautiful, colorful floor designs.

All Marmoleum floors have a Topshield pro finish, meaning they are scratch and scuff resistant. This makes Marmoleum an easy to maintain flooring with long lasting appearance retention. Go to the Marmoleum collection

Bulletin Board & Furniture Linoleum

Our renewed Bulletin Board pin board linoleum offers a practical, simple solution to collect and exchange thoughts and ideas whenever people plan, create and meet. Bulletin Board is an all-natural material that can be applied in framed or mounted pin boards or directly to the wall. Its surface is tactile & colorful, creating a decorative element in your space.

Forbo Furniture Linoleum is a natural surfacing material that delivers the finishing touch for all high end furniture designs such as desks, chairs, stools, cabinets, doors and displays. Furniture Linoleum is renowned for its elegance and durability, radiating high quality and finesse. The mat surface and it's warm, soft texture make it a unique surfacing solution.
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Go to the Furniture Linoleum collection

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T-Mobile office Prague

Allura – luxury vinyl tiles

Are you looking for the aesthetics of natural wood and stone floors with the advantages of strong and comfortable vinyl tiles? Explore our Allura LVT collections. Warm underfoot, excellent dimensional stability, easy installation and maintenance. We offer our LVT designs in several constructions to make sure there is always a suitable choice for your application.
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Eternal – general purpose vinyl sheet

A general purpose vinyl perfect for waiting areas where a durable solution is key. Eternal is available in realistic wood effects, stone and abstract designs, a broad palette of colors and some digitally printed visuals which are designed to inspire.
Go to the Eternal collection

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Eternal Step – safety vinyl sheet

Eternal Step is perfect for areas prone to spillages, the Eternal Step collection offers varying levels of slip resistance from r10-r12. PUR pearl finish means Eternal Step is resistant to scuff marks and improves the ease of cleaning and maintenance. Particles in the wear layer of all Forbo step safety floors guarantee lifetime sustainable slip resistance. Eternal Step is available in over 60 designs in wood and stone effects.
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Nuway & Coral - entrance systems

By keeping out dirt and moisture at the entrance, cleaning costs can be cut by up to 65%. Our Nuway collection is the recognized market leader in engineered entrance flooring systems. Nuway entrance systems provide an outstanding first line of defense against soil and moisture entering a building, on the soles of shoes and the treads of wheeled traffic. It helps to keep your interior floor coverings dryer and cleaner whilst also preventing slips.

Our Coral collection has been the market leading, textile entrance flooring brand for 50 years. It offers more choice than ever before with attractive and sustainable clean-off systems and is available in styles and constructions to suit all applications, budgets and aesthetic requirements. Coral entrance floors can prolong the life of your floor as well as greatly reduce cleaning costs and the risk of slipping.
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Custom flooring

Make it personal

Can't find what you are looking for despite our wide product range? No worries, we have more. Within our Bespoke Design flooring you can design your own unique floor with our digital print techniques in Flotex, Eternal project vinyl and Coral entrance flooring and the refined Waterjet cutting technique for Marmoleum flooring.
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Flotex Vision digital print

As Flotex flocked flooring has over 70 million fibers per square meter, it provides a unique high density substrate for printing. As a result, vibrant designs and true to life visuals can be printed in high level photographic resolutions. All desired color shades, tones and hues can be achieved.

Digital print offers an infinite number of design options ranging from abstracts with an intricate color spectrem to realistic images of grass, sand or water, or any picture projected on your floor. Create 3D depth or a “trompe l‘oeil” effect on your floor.

Visit our flotex vision website and explore the designs

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Designing with Marmoleum

Are you looking for something unique on your floor? That is also sustainable and durable? Our Designing with Marmoleum selection offers you just that. With our Waterjet technique we can create the most precise and detailed floor designs. From laser engraved Marmoleum tiles to exciting designs created by international designers.
Explore our Waterjet options

Marmoleum Aquajet

Coral Logo entrance flooring

Great looks for a great welcome. Forbo offers a bespoke print and cut-out design service to create your own unique entrance mat. Forbo Coral Logo entrance flooring will retain its looks whilst keeping out dirt and moist for years to come.
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Coral logo entrance flooring

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Air quality

Air quality

One of the main problems in any working environment is the poor air quality. While polluted air is rarely visible to the naked eye, air quality does greatly influence the wellbeing and productivity of office staff. Poor air quality can even result in respiratory illnesses and other diseases. It is especially caused by poor ventilation and the evaporation of volatile organic compounds (VOC emissions) from furniture cleaning detergents and building materials.

Fact: Good ventilation can help increase productivity

Tackle it at the source

Many experts are of the opinion that the combination of a climate control system and natural ventilation is the best solution, as it provides an optimum balance between energy consumption and quality of the climate and air quality. The ceiling height in offices also plays a role: the higher the ceiling, the more room there is for so-called air stratification (various temperature layers). This results in effective natural air displacement and allows more opportunity for air intake.

An effective method of solving another part of this problem is to tackle it at source, as in the case of printers and copiers, while also precluding materials that have high VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions. Having an office with plants and flowing water is a great way to reduce air pollutants, as these two features help to remove carbon monoxide and other toxins or impurities. Using low VOC floor coverings, wall paneling, paints and soft furnishings can also help to optimize indoor air quality.

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Fact: Clean air keeps employees healthy

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Healthy indoors

So how does that translate into flooring in the office? It is our mission to design and offer products that contribute in a positive way to the health and comfort of the individual.

• our floors are guaranteed free of any banned toxics
• our floors have low to even close to zero product emission
• our products are phthalate free
• our portfolio offers proven solutions against allergens and fine dust

Allergy UK Seal of Approval™

Our Flotex flocked flooring and Marmoleum linoleum floor coverings have the prestigious Allergy UK Seal of Approval™, as with the correct cleaning and maintenance regime, they won't harbor dust mites or allergens, contributing to better indoor air quality and enhanced comfort for employees and visitors.

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Acoustics

Poor acoustics in a working environment reduces productivity

Studies have shown poor acoustics to be the main annoyance factor in an office environment, impacting on employees’ ability to retain vital information and causing feelings of stress and fatigue. A typical office generates sound levels of 54 A-weighted decibels or more, above the recommended 45dB. Ideally speaking, the acoustic design of an office environment should be in keeping with the activities of its users. It is worth paying attention to sustainable acoustic design solutions as they can safeguard the productivity and health of employees. In the longer term, this can prevent the high costs of absenteeism of employees or productivity losses.

The floor plays an important role in office acoustics.We therefore measure the decibel impact of each of our floor covering types. Based on this, we can advise on the optimal floor covering solution to reduce impact sounds on the floor below and ambient solutions for the space in which you are working.

Innovation has lead to a number of backings with enhanced acoustic performance. Forbo supplies textile softback floors which can absorb up to 30dB of impact noise.
Find out more about our acoustic floorings

Fact: Pleasant acoustics mean happier employees

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Light reflection

Daylight and light reflection

It will come as no surprise that daylight and lighting are also factors that influence productivity in the workplace. Whilst it is simple to determine the light concentration in a workspace, there is an initially weak relationship between light concentration and productivity. Loss of productivity does not occur until lighting levels drop significantly below 300 lux.

As far as floor coverings are concerned, their LRVs (light reflection values) are extremely important. Forbo supplies this information along with their floor coverings. By choosing wisely, you are ensuring sufficient light as well as saving on the energy costs of lighting.

Fact: Eyes are more relaxed in sufficient daylight

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References

Get inspired by our references

Many office facilities worldwide are using Forbo floor coverings. Visit our reference section and get inspired by worldwide reference projects.
Explore our office references

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FloorVisualizer

To create your floor and make up your mind what would fit best we have several tools and services. Our FloorVisualizer helps you to place our floors in any environment, and even combine them, so you can see how it looks.
Start playing with our FloorVisualizer

Forbo FloorVisualizer Office smartphone

The projects we love: 5 Items

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Global player

Global partnerships

The responsibility for forging global partnerships with key clients is entrusted to our most experienced Key Account Managers. Dedicated to customer care, their only remit is to ensure that Forbo delivers a flooring solution that is ideally suited to your needs.

• We can supply international quotations and have experience with international order processes and local regulations
• We manage international logistics
• We have 20 years partnerships with worldwide customers

As a global partner we stand next to you on a local level. Our design team can offer guidance and assistance as required. Our technicians speak the language of the flooring installers and in this way everybody is aligned.

Leading global manufacturer

• Forbo Flooring Systems is part of the Swiss Forbo Group

• Key figures Forbo Group 2019:
> Net sales 1282.2 CHF Mio
> Employees 5.600

• A worldwide presence:
> 25 production facilities and distribution companies
> 6 assembly centers
> 48 pure sales organizations in a total of 38 countries across the globe

• European manufacturer with factories in The United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Russia.

• European logistics and responsiveness

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Leading in sustainability

We care about you and the environment

• We have received various labels and certification for your products and or production facilities.
• All of our manufacturing sites are ISO certified. Raw materials are used efficiently, waste is recycled whenever possible.
• We are committed to social responsibility, the Forbo sites are certified according to SA8000.

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Reliable service

We offer you:
• A sole source of supply for all your flooring requirements
• Local advice, support and cross border project management
• Efficiencies of scale, certainty of supply and rapid delivery

Above all one single contract and one single point of contact to save you time and money.

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Think global, act local

Local teams working with local representatives

Throughout the duration of a project, your Forbo Key Account Manager serves as your single point of contact for any questions, from anywhere in the world.

We believe that this approach saves you time, eliminate hassle and uncertainty and ensures consistency and reliability, no matter how complex your project.