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Article: Concrete flooring: the past does not equate the future.(Hard Floor Maintenance Opportunities)
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- ICS Cleaning Specialist
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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Concrete is the most commonly used building material in the world. It is nothing new; variations have been used for literally thousands of years. Today, billions of square feet of concrete are used each year and a good portion of that is flooring material.
When thinking of flooring material, the floor maintenance technician does not generally think of concrete. We might think of the use of concrete flooring in heavy industrial environments; plants, warehouses and freight terminals or even in moderate to light industrial such as mechanical or electrical shops, but as flooring? No, most technicians do not think about concrete flooring at all, but they should. ...