Schools and Education
With constant footfall by students, children, teachers and lecturers, educational facilities need seamless, durable and slip resistant flooring, as well as adhering to the highest regulatory standards around fire and health & safety. With Sika you can be sure of a floor which meets all these stringent requirements.
Flooring in a classroom, lecture theatre or training room has to be aesthetically pleasing for both students and teachers. We at Sika can offer the most extensive range, colour pallette and design options when specifying flooring for classrooms, lecture theatres and training rooms. Through the years, Sika has worked with many schools, universities and nurseries, understanding the array of flooring requirements.
CLASSROOMS, LECTURE THEATRES & TRAINING ROOMS
Flooring in a classroom, lecture theatre or training room has to be aesthetically pleasing for both students and teachers. We at Sika can offer the most extensive range, colour pallette and design options when specifying flooring for classrooms, lecture theatres and training rooms. Through the years, Sika has worked with many schools, universities and nurseries, understanding the array of flooring requirements.
CORRIDORS
Corridors are one of, if not the most trafficked area within any educational setting requiring a durable, hard wearing flooring solution. Sika flooring systems are capable of incorporating passive signage to enable students, staff and visitors to navigate around the facility.Noise reduction is another important factor to take into account when specifying flooring for an educational facility and our flooring systems can reduce impact and sound by 19db. Cleaning and maintenance regimes are also reduced due to the unique flooring composition.
TOILETS
Toilets and bathrooms are one of the most highly used areas within any educational setting. Ensuring the flooring remains free from bacteria, hygienically clean and has slip resistant properties is imperative.When specifying flooring for wet areas such as showers and toilets there is a HSE requirement for a slip resistance pendulum result of a minimum of 36, measured with a 4S rubber pad and Sika flooring systems exceed this requirement.Sika offers a comprehensive range of slip resistant flooring to choose from which also comes with a professional adviser to assist at every stage.
CHANGING ROOMS & SHOWERS
These must be functional, slip resistant (conforms to DIN standard 51130) yet comfortable flooring for the high numbers of students and pupils who regularly use the changing rooms. When installed this flooring system is seamless and simple to clean, ensuring bacteria is non-existent. Sika’s professional experts will help guide you to make the right choice of floor, keeping costs to a minimum and hygiene to a maximum.
DINING ROOMS
With staff, pupils and students coming and going throughout the day, a dining room has to be welcoming and convivial. Therefore an appealing and attractive floor is important, as well as being stain resistant to ensure spills can easily be removed along with being slip resistant.At Sika, with years of flooring experience, we understand the need to specify flooring in accordance with the HSE requirements, whilst also creating welcoming and aesthetically pleasing environments.
LABORATORIES
With experiments being undertaken using a variety of chemicals, the floor is exceptionally important in a laboratory, as it has to be stain and chemical resistant.
Slip resistant is equally as important with accidental spillages that can occur in such environments. Sika's flooring solutions exceed the HSE requirements for slip resistance. With years of flooring experience, Sika is able to guide and recommend what will give the best performance.
Schools and Education Systems
FAQs
Sika ComfortFloor® is a seamless, low-VOC polyurethane flooring ideal for universities. It provides durability, hygiene, and slip resistance, while offering acoustic dampening and comfort underfoot to reduce fatigue in busy spaces. Certified for indoor air quality and supporting BREEAM/LEED, it suits corridors, libraries, classrooms, and cafeterias—delivering a sustainable, quiet, and student-friendly flooring solution.
Floors in classrooms and lecture theatres must be durable, safe and welcoming. The systems from Sika ComfortFloor and similar ranges offer seamless, low‑VOC resin finishes that support healthy indoor air quality, are easy to clean and maintain, and come in wide colour palettes suited to educational environments.
Floors in classrooms and lecture theatres must be durable, safe and welcoming. The systems from Sika ComfortFloor and similar ranges offer seamless, low‑VOC resin finishes that support healthy indoor air quality, are easy to clean and maintain, and come in wide colour palettes suited to educational environments.
Corridors experience constant use and need flooring that handles heavy footfall, offers slip resistance, and helps reduce noise impact. Sika’s flooring systems can reduce impact noise, incorporate passive signage zones, and are built for long‑term durability and lower maintenance.
In wet areas within educational buildings the flooring must be hygienic, seamless, slip‑resistant (meeting a pendulum result of a minimum 36 with a 4 S rubber pad), and easy to clean. Sika provides flooring solutions that exceed these standards and are designed for high‑usage, wet‑traffic environments.
Colour and design in school flooring influence students’ mood, engagement and behaviour. Using warm tones in early years and calmer hues for older students supports learning and focus. Sika’s design‑capable systems like ComfortFloor allow incorporation of school colours, logos or motifs while delivering high performance.
For education facilities the ideal flooring should be abrasion‑ and impact‑resistant, easy to clean, hygienic, low in VOC, slip‑resistant, seamless and visually adaptable. The specification must align with operational needs, substrate conditions, finishing, maintenance cycles and health‑&‑safety standards so the floor supports both use and well‑being.