In another segment of research commissioned by the World Floor Covering Association and conducted in August 2011 by Clear Seas Research, 494 consumers who remodeled/updated one or more rooms in the past six months and installed new flooring presented their views on green flooring.
Loose-lay resilient flooring is evolving at a rapid pace, with fiberglass-backed products growing quickly on the residential side and more commercial manufacturers looking at floating lvt products.
Nineteen eighty-eight was not a good time to start a flooring business in Austin, Texas. The oil price collapse in July 1986 touched off a statewide recession and significant job losses.
Committed to providing building professionals in the tile and flooring industry high-performance product solutions, the USG portfolio of backerboards, underlayments and membranes is versatile, easy to install and provides the strength beneath the surface customers know they can trust.
In 2009, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multi-program science and technology laboratory managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy began construction on a new three-story, 160,000 square-foot Chemical and Materials Sciences Building.