Huggins Wood Floor Specialist Presents: Cork, Bamboo, and Hardwood as Flooring Material

Please join Huggins Wood Floor Specialist “ONLINE” for our one credit course, Cork, Bamboo and Hardwood as a Flooring Material. 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 characteristics of cork, bamboo, and hardwood. Architect and design professionals will become more familiar with these materials as a flooring option in an effort to properly specify the material that will perform best in their client projects. Sustainability, indoor air quality, and maintenance for each material will be examined as well.

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

• Identify the major differences among cork, bamboo, and hardwoods as a flooring material
• Discuss the growth cycles and sustainability of cork, bamboo, and hardwoods
• Explain how the use of cork, bamboo, and hardwoods as a flooring material improves indoor air quality
• Describe the routine and long-term care and maintenance of cork, bamboo, and hardwood flooring