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The official publication of FCICA. FCICA publishes this quarterly digital magazine which contains valuable information for commercial flooring contractors and serves as the primary voice for the association.
Volume: 13 | Issue: 2 | Download
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Photo credit: Chad M. Davis, AIA, of Chad Davis Photo (www.chaddavisphoto.com)
Location: Keller High School
Project: Adds and renovations, with carpet, resilient and ceramic tile
General Contractor: Buford-Thompson (Ft. Worth, Texas)
Architect: VLK Architects (Ft. Worth, Texas)
Flooring Contractor: One Source Commercial Flooring, Inc. (Plano, Texas)
Product displayed on the cover: Armstrong VCT
Completed Summer 2016
Volume: 13 | Issue: 1 | Download
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Thomas West has become one of the premier salons in Chicago. When the salon moved to a new location in the building, the team looked to ASPECTA for a flooring that could step up to the demands of a busy salon environment with both style and substance: a strong design factor coupled with ease of maintenance; a no wax/easy to clean floor that also offers comfort under foot. Read more, page 12.
Location: Thomas West Salon, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL
Product: ASPECTA FIVE – Summer Pine – Charcoal #5382101
Volume: 12 | Issue: 3 | Download
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This 200,000 square foot Brass Mills Mall in Waterbury, Connecticut incorporates eight custom-accent areas, each over 800sf of Thru-Body Porcelain Tile cut entirely with waterjet technology. The entire project is a showcase of waterjet's ability to work with all types of materials, including, ceramic, glazed, through-body, porcelain, and the latest large format panels and tiles. All materials are easily fabricated, inlaid, and patterned. Durable, cleanable, and colorful ceramics are favorites of designers. Waterjet fabrication makes these materials more versatile and beautiful than ever before. – Photo provided by Creative Edge Mastershop, Fairfield, Iowa.
Volume: 12 | Issue: 2 | Download
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Gensler teams up with UZIN and Mid-Atlantic Floors for technical support and installation for the flooring on their renovated Washington D.C. offices.
Volume: 12 | Issue: 1 | Download
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One Light Luxury Apartments represents the first residential tower built in downtown Kansas City since 1976 and the first new high-rise construction within the freeway loop since 2006. MAPEI systems for the installation of tile, wood, vinyl plank and carpet tile were used to complete stylish new luxury apartments located in the Power & Light District of Kansas City, Missouri. FDC Contract of Kansas City installed the wood and carpet tile in the common areas plus the vinyl plank in all the apartments. Metro Tile Contractors of Overland Park, KS, installed the tile in the apartments and the common areas.
Volume: 11 | Issue: 4 | Download
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AMLI River North Apartments is contributing to the needs and wants of the rental market with 409 upscale luxury living apartments in a 50-story multi-unit residential tower on Chicago's north side. Floor coverings in common spaces and apartments include wood, carpet and tile. Surface preparation was an important step in producing smooth, level floors to receive the different floor coverings. Photo submitted by MAPEI.
Volume: 11 | Issue: 3 | Download
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With the help of UZIN self-leveling and subfloor preparation materials, NFI Enterprises, LLC, in Auburn, Washington was able to install ceramic flooring on a 27,000 square foot specialty grocery store that featured a floor plan with the store level above the parking garage.
Location: PCC Natural Markets, Greenlake Village, Seattle, WA. Product: UZIN Self-leveling and subfloor preparation materials
Volume: 10 | Issue: 2 | Download
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Bright and colorful nora® rubber patterned floors create a spectacular sight for visitors in each elevator lobby at the DMC Children's Hospital of Michigan. The inspiration for the design of the pictured elevator lobby came from a work of art done by the local Detroit artist Timothy Orikri.
Project Installation:
Master Craft Flooring
Design Team:
Shepley Bulfinch
Product:
nora® rubber
Volume: 11 | Issue: 2 | Download
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This is the Master Turbo Groover by Turbo Heat Welding Tools. The installer shown is grooving a circle along the seams of Armstrong's homogeneous vinyl sheet material to heat weld them together. The groove's advanced design allows the installer to groove circles, shapes and straightaways with precision regardless of uneven surfaces. To check out the rest of the Turbo's heat welding tools check out at: www.TurboHeatWeldingTools.com
Volume: 11 | Issue: 1 | Download
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A community with a dream for a better future joined together with a team of devoted and equally inspired designers, builders and project managers to build the sprawling one story ARC Center in West Chicago, IL. Vortex Commercial Flooring won the Starnet Design Awards Gold in Hospitality/Public Space for the work done on this project. With the help of UZIN substrate product systems, Vortex was able to create these exceptional floors that will last for years.
Volume: 10 | Issue: 4 | Download
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The Ultimate Concrete Prep Tool for Hard-to-Prep Surfaces
The Diamabrush Concrete Prep Plus tool is a heavy-duty diamond prep tool that is ideally suited to prep floors for an application of paints, epoxies, or stains.
The Concrete Prep Plus will also remove
a thin layer of paint or epoxy. The tools can be used on standard floor machines and buffers.
