Wood Flooring Trends – Wide and Long Planks

Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Wood Flooring Trends-Wide & Long Planks. Joe Avila, one of the world’s most renowned wood flooring specialists & wood flooring inspectors, covers how you and your firm can avoid wood flooring failures and costly lawsuits when specifying wood flooring systems. Stay up to date with the latest wood flooring trends, get informed of innovative wood flooring systems and green friendly products to save you and your clients time and money.

This seminar analyzes the use of wood flooring as an element of design. Design professionals will become more familiar with wood floors as a design material in an effort to properly specify the product that will perform best in their client projects. This course assists architect and design professionals in understanding the green attributes of hardwood flooring so that they can effectively specify wood flooring for their client projects and meet potential green building program criteria. This is a 1 CEU credit course. The National Wood Flooring Association will submit the forms to IDCEC and AIA for your CEU’s approval.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the differences among strip, plank, parquet wood floors
• Describe the differences between solid, engineered wood floors
• Understand how wide, long plank wood perform as flooring materials
• Discuss how saw cut can minimize performance issues with wide, long plank wood flooring
• Identify the availability and limitations of wide, long plank wood flooring
• Recommended maintenance for wide, long plank wood flooring