New generation carpet floors for education

We all remember the stiff carpet floors we used to crawl on, damaging our knees. Or the gray and uninspiring colours on the floor mainly chosen to hide dirt and stains. Carpet formerly used at schools, had to be resistant to the many walking traffic and the intensive use by students. Nowadays wear resistant hasn't been the sole topic in the educational environment for a while already. Acoustics, comfort, a healthy inner climate, hygiene, maintenance and perception play an increasingly important role. Contemporary carpet has a lot to offer for all these fields. Time for a new generation of carpet floors accommodating the educational environment in all its needs.

Good acoustics

Rest, focus and concentration are important conditions to optimally perform in education.  Sliding chairs and tables, sounds of walking in the hallway or voices in adjacent areas can be a huge disturbance causing a lot of distraction and irritation. It's for a reason that acoustics is one of the most important factors regarding the creation of a pleasant learning climate without disturbing noise disturbances. Amongst the floors, carpet is the undoubtable number one regarding sound muting and sound absorption. Especially in school libraries, study rooms and on silence workplaces it's pleasant to work and learn with carpet. But also in the classrooms themselves or on a place to relax at school carpet adds to a pleasant learning environment.

Atmosphere and comfort

A pleasant atmosphere in which you feel at ease and comfortable, is an important condition to develop yourself in all freedom and for learning in a safe environment. No other type of floor can match the comfort and atmosphere improving qualities of carpet. With a big diversity of colours, strcutures and materials the current generation of carpets offers an endless amount of posibilities to shape an inspiring and stimulating environment. From flat woven qualities and tufted qualities with subtle, refined structures to rough lush poles. From low to high poled and from shining to mat yarns. And from uni to mixed or carpet with outstanding and playful or even custom-made patterns. Regarding size you can also think about rugs, besides the wall-to-wall and carpet tiles. Ideal to create little 'islands' as an atmospherically addition to a hard floor in big central spaces like the hall or auditorium.

Attractive colours

Use of colour plays an important role for the creation of an attractive learning environment. Research shows colour to have an important impact on the memory and learning capacity of children. This effect is especially seen in primary education, but also in high school and (applied) universities colours have (consciously or unconsciously) a guiding function. From improving concentration, encouraging exercise, tickling imagination or stimulating creativity, with the endless colour possibilities carpet has to offer, you can adjust the floor exactly to the function and purpose of the room.

Dirt and stain resistant

Also regarding the ease of maintenance carpet has a lot more to offer than you might think at first glance. A lot of carpet is made with dirt and stain resistant yarns nowadays. A big number of qualities from our COLOR BOOKS collection for example is provided with XXprotect, a dirt and stain resistant protection layer. And don't forget about the power of a proper entrance area. Especially at daycares and primary schools where toddlers and preschoolers take half of the sandbox inside, you can keep a lot of dirt and sand outside with a proper clean-off zone. Or what about carpet tiles? Ideal to locally replace if their happens to remain an unremovable stain on one.

Healthy inner climate

In 70-80% of the classroom in primary education and high schools the inner climate is not well organised caused by insufficient ventilation and a bad air quality. With the fresh schools-standard the government strives to a better inner climate in schools, preventing complaints like headaches, exhaustion, discomfort and aggravation of allergies and astma. Thanks to its unique dust binding properties - if maintained well - and comfort, carpet contributes to a healthy inner climate. With innovations like NeXXtback, our environmental friendly carpet backing free of pvc, bitumen and latex and without emissions of toxic substances and unpleasant smells we take it a step further. All our qualities meet strict environmental requirements and standards concerning VOC (volatile organic compounds) and inner climate. With certifications like BREAAM, LEED, WELL, The Blue Angel, M1, Indoor Air Comfort Gold, Green Label Plus and GuT.

The PERFECT MATCH

Enough of reasons to chose for carpet as well in the education environment. Curious what carpet can do for your education project? At LEOXX we like to help you find the perfect match. For more information contact us at info@leoxx.nl or call to 030 635 1000. Or start by taking a look at our carpet collections below.

Take a look at our color books-collectie 

take a look at our flexxeco carpet tiLeS 

take a look at our print collection