Sylvia Bowman, Principal. Twenty-five years inside commercial flooring.
$3 billion in annual flooring failures. Warranties that will not pay out when the floor fails 14 months in. Owners absorbing losses they did not know they were carrying.
Here is what I spent 25 years inside commercial flooring learning to see.
The conditions that decide whether a floor succeeds or fails only exist during installation. Once the finish goes down, those conditions are buried.
Unverifiable.
And when the floor fails, nobody can prove what happened. The claim gets denied. The owner eats it.
That is not a product problem. It is a verification problem.
It now has a name. Flooring Commissioning.
Chemical engineer. Twenty-five years in commercial flooring. Licensed commercial and residential builder. Certified Independent Flooring Inspector. CSI CDT. Certified Facility Manager. Registered AIA CES Provider, number 10144722.
ASTM F06 Voting Committee Member. The committee that owns the flooring test methods.
CSI Regional Board Member. NAWIC RVA Board Member. NICFI Board Member.
ASHRAE. U.S. Green Building Council.
Owners. Only owners.
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