Foundations for peak performance: A specifier’s guide to sports flooring

Whether it is in a commercial gym, school hall or world-class training facility, the type of flooring athletes practice and compete on is a factor that is often overlooked. Sports flooring provides stability, support and impact absorption. It is more than just a surface; it is a dynamic element with special properties that can help an athlete's performance and prevent injury.

Foundations for Peak Performance: A Specifier’s Guide to Sports Flooring examines the relevant factors that designers and specifiers must consider when specifying sports flooring. In accordance with European Standard EN 14904, sports flooring must have certain attributes, such as shock absorption, coefficient of friction, vertical ball bounce and more. We also consider other design considerations such as aesthetics, maintenance and environmental impact.

Gerflor’s Taraflex® is a high-performance vinyl sports flooring range recognised as the gold standard in sports flooring used in premium facilities around the world. From low-impact activities (like school hallways) to elite and performance sports (like professional sporting venues), it provides a full range of P1/P2/P3 products (compliant with EN Standard 14904) to offer the ideal solution to adapt to all users.

Gerflor’s Connor Sports is a hardwood sports flooring offering unparalleled quality and performance. 1000's of schools, community groups and professional teams from across the country play on the maple hardwood flooring and subfloors. Every square metre of Connor Sports flooring is subjected to thorough testing including humidity resistance, long-term stability, force reduction, vertical deflection and area of deflection to exceed the strict MFMA industry standards.

Download this whitepaper to learn about the properties that make up a sports floor.