The Specifier's Handbook to Sports Flooring
From meeting project LEED goals to product selection a design team is tasked to overcome each obstacle and at the same time create a show piece such as a gymnasium or field house which will represent the school for years to come on a daily basis. Horner Sports Flooring’s time-tested quality, durability and aesthetics are central in creating the vision your owners expects.
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FAQs - Specifying a Horner Hard Maple Sports Floor
FAQs - Specifying a Horner Sports Flooring Synthetic Floor
Why Horner Hard Maple is the Best Choice for Sports Flooring?
- Physical Characteristics - Horner MFMA northern hard maple (Acer saccharum) is dense, strong, supremely durable and remarkably hard. MFMA northern hard maple is 12% harder than red oak, and 7% harder than white oak
- Aesthetics - Horner MFMA northern hard maple flooring has a natural beauty and color which provides an excellent contrast to paint used to stripe floors for such activities as basketball and volleyball.
- Resiliency and Performance - Horner MFMA northern hard maple is an organic product consisting of patterns of fibers and air pockets which give it a natural shock-absorbing quality. These characteristics, combined with specially designed and engineered subfloor systems, deliver performance and safety for a variety of sporting and activity applications.
- Environmental Responsibility - Wood is the only natural resource on Earth that is at once renewable, recyclable, biodegradable and re-useable. The energy required to grow our timber supply is free - it comes from the sun
- Quality Assurance - For 103 years, architects have relied on MFMA's quality assurance when determining what surfaces to specify for their athletic flooring installations. it.
- Research and Resources - MFMA has authorized an independent testing agency to test floor finish products in accordance with strict standards. This program provides architects with valuable floor finish comparison and selection data.
The 5 Top Criteria When Analyzing your Sport Flooring Project:
When considering which flooring system is best suited for your installation, it is important to consider different attributes of each system.
- Cost
- Appearance (Aesthetics)
- Slab Depression/Floor Elevation Requirements
- End Uses for the Facility
- Performance Characteristics
Conduct a Needs Analysis Prior to the Specification Process:
Start your specification decisions by asking questions: Who will be using this floor? What activities will be performed on the surface? How often will the facility be used in an average year? Is the facility going to be subjected to long idle periods? What is the climate in the area of the installation? What types of HVAC systems can I specify for the space? Is the installation below-grade, on-grade, or above-grade? Answers to these and other questions will help you to eliminate subfloor designs that are inappropriate for your project.
Specifying a Horner Maple Sports Flooring Subfloor System:
Horner has spent years testing and developing a host of subfloor systems to meet the needs of athletes and other facility users alike. There are three basic subfloor designs:
- Floating Systems
- Fixed Systems
- Restrained Resilient Systems
Horner Proprietary Anchored Resilient Subfloor System Designs
Multiple combinations of steel, wood, composite metal, plastic, neoprene, and rubber are signatures of most anchored resilient subfloor systems.
APEX I BPS I CRP I LS I SAFE 2
Horner Fixed and Floating Subfloor System Designs
Each MFMA Manufacturer Member also offers a variety of proprietary fixed and floating systems that they have developed in some cases for specific applications.
All Wood I MultiSport I MPC I SAFE 1 I TAC 2 I TAC 1
Horner "Generic" Anchored Resilient and Floating Subfloor System Designs
Most proprietary anchored resilient, fixed and floating subfloor system designs have evolved over the years from the designs of a number of "generic" MFMA subfloor systems.
Fixed Sleeper I SAFE I TAC I StaLoc II I VariCushion
A Sample Specification for a Horner Flooring MFMA Maple Sports Flooring System
HOW TO SPECIFY Horner MFMA RANDOM LENGTH STRIP FLOORING
Horner MFMA Random Length Strip flooring is the surface material most frequently specified for sports flooring applications. When writing your specification for MFMA Random Length strip flooring, specify as "MFMA -RL (Random Length) strip flooring," and list the required species, grade, and thickness. A typical specification should appear as follows:
2.1 MATERIAL
A. Flooring shall be Horner 25/32" (20mm) or 33/32" (26mm) thick x 2 ¼” (57mm) or 1 ½” (38mm) wide First, Second and Better, Third and Better or Third Grade, continuous tongue and groove and end-matched MFMA Northern Hard Maple, grade marked and stamped as manufactured by Horner Flooring Company.
OPTION: Horner Long Life™ flooring if so specified.
Why Horner sports flooring is the best total solution for all your sports needs:
Horner’s full product line of synthetic sports flooring alternatives creates one point of contact for all the projects sports flooring needs which assures that all sports flooring systems will be professionally installed in a timely manner.
The 5 top criteria when analyzing your sports flooring project:
When considering which flooring system is best suited for your installation, it is important to consider different attributes of each system.
- Cost
- Appearance (Aesthetics)
- Slab Depression/Floor Elevation Requirements
- End Uses for the Facility
- Performance Characteristics
Conduct a needs analysis prior to the specification process:
Start your specification decisions by asking questions: Who will be using this floor? What activities will be performed on the surface? How often will the facility be used in an average year? Is the facility going to be subjected to long idle periods? What is the climate in the area of the installation?
Identifying the correct Horner synthetic flooring system to meet your projects needs:
In today’s dynamic sports and recreation environmental very often demands a fusion solution (Wood and Synthetic sports flooring combined) to meet the needs of the owner. By utilizing Horner Sports Flooring on the project you can have the comfort of knowing if the project needs a Track, (EcoTrack, CushionCourt, Olymp-XX Track/Sport) a weight room, (SuperTuff, EcoTuff) a tennis court (EcoCourt) or a state-of-the-art multi-functional surface for a great room or cafeteria (Optima, CushionCourt), Horner is the answer. |
