Case Studies
Below is a list of key project sites at which products from Quantum Flooring Solutions have been fitted. Click on any one to see further details of the work done.
Education - Middlesbrough College - Stair Nosings
Middlesbrough College is the largest college in Teesside, with around 16,000 students. It is located on one campus in Middlehaven on Middlesbrough’s riverfront. The main college building has won numerous design awards as a landmark project in the regeneration of the area.
Residential - Hadrian’s Tower, Newcastle - Stair Nosing
Hadrian’s Tower is the tallest building in Newcastle at 82 metres high. Located in the heart of the city, it is a residential skyscraper with 162 luxury apartments. The tower has 26 storeys, and incorporates a champagne lounge and a coffee house among other communal spaces.
OFFICES MIDLANDS, STAIR NOSINGS
G Harding Flooring are nationwide flooring contractors. The company specialises in bespoke designs and installations. It has worked with some of the UK’s largest brands, in all sectors from hospitality to healthcare.
Education - Logan Hall University College London, London, Stair Nosings
Logan Hall is an auditorium at the University of London. It is a venue based in the famous 20 Bedford Way building, and is used for various events such as award ceremonies, film screenings and conferences.
HOTEL AND LEISURE - Smugglers Cove, Bournemouth - stair nosing
Smugglers Cove Adventure Golf is a tourist attraction at Bournemouth Beach. The 18 hole course is part of Bournemouth’s famous seafront, which has over 7 million visitors per year. For safety purposes, it was necessary to fit Stair Nosings onto a fire exit staircase at the site.
Office – Granite Exchange Co-Working Space – Stair Nosing
Granite Exchange is a development in the centre of Newry, Northern Ireland. It opened in 2018, and is conveniently placed midway between Belfast and Dublin.
OFFICE – Pegasus Place – ENTRANCE MATTING
The Straumann Group is a global leader in tooth replacement solutions, and corrective and aesthetic dentistry. It is based in Basel, Switzerland but employs over 6000 people worldwide. The Head Office for Straumann UK is at 3 Pegasus Place in Crawley.
OFFICE – HSE, LIVERPOOL – ENTRANCE MATTING
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the North West is based out of Redgrave Court in Bootle. Redgrave Court is the headquarters for the HSE, with 2000 people working in the building. Such a busy workplace needs safe and quality matting, and the HSE were looking for an upgrade. 90 sqm of matting needed to be replaced, both on the outside and inside of the building’s entrances.
HOTEL & LEISURE - The Majestic Hotel - STAIR NOSINGS
The Majestic Hotel is a famous landmark in Harrogate. It first opened in 1900 and is a magnificent example of grand Victorian architecture. The hotel is set in 8 acres of land and boasts 170 rooms, along with 8 large function rooms.
Office - Gazette Building - Stair Nosings
Gazette Buildings is in the courts area of Corporation Street in Birmingham. It was built in 1886 as lawyers’ chambers and has been more recently used as solicitors’ practices and citizens’ advice centres.
Office - Ingenuity House - Stair Nosings
Ingenuity House is a huge 12,000 sqm structure adjacent to Birmingham’s International Airport and Train Station. This brand new, state of the art building consists of a series of office spaces spread over four floors.
Retail - Mailbox - Entrance Matting
SummaryBirmingham’s Harvey Nichols store is located at The Mailbox, just five minutes’ walk from Birmingham New Street station. This huge luxury department store stocks over 200 high-class brands selling products such as clothing and perfumes. As one of only five large-format Harvey Nichols stores in the UK, the Birmingham site is one of the flagships of the brand. content...
Education - St Michaels - Stair Nosing
St Michael’s is a newly built Primary School located at Larkhill in Salisbury. The school boasts state of the art facilities including a dance studio and a sensory garden.
Retail - Caffé Nero - Stair Nosing
Caffé Nero has more than 825 coffee houses around the world and has won many awards for both its coffee making and its service. Its unique, elevated café in Coventry’s Lower Precinct shopping centre is known as The Rotunda.
Retail - Ashbourn - Stair Nosing
The Sally Montague Hair Group has been in business for 35 years, and runs six luxury hair salons and spas across Derbyshire. The Ashbourne salon is one of the largest developments of its kind in the UK and has been in the planning and design stages for eight years. It is designed around a central concrete staircase.
Office - BBC, London - Stair Nosing
The BBC is the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation, with sites and studios across the UK and around the world. BBC Broadcasting House is the BBC’s headquarters, where many of its flagship news, sports and current affairs programmes are recorded. With the BBC’s major radio networks also operating within, Broadcasting House has around 6,000 staff.
Healthcare - Hawkins Dental Practice - Stair Nosing
The timber bull nosed stairs leading up to the treatment rooms in the Birmingham based Hawkins Dental Practice had become worn through daily foot traffic over many years. The stair floorcovering and consequently the stair nosings needed to be replaced.
HOTEL AND LEISURE - Shorefield Holidays - stair nosing
Oakdene Forest Park is a beautiful holiday destination in St Leonards in Dorset, which is run by Shorefield Holidays. The park is peaceful and family-friendly, with a range of activities available both on- and off-site and accommodation to suit a variety of tastes.
HOTEL AND LEISURE -Sutton Library - stair nosing
Sutton Library is a vibrant community hub in the heart of Sutton Coldfield. It caters to people of all ages, with a café and soft play area alongside the books.
residential - Asprey House - Stair Nosing
Asprey House is the site of Asprey Court Care Home. This is a purpose-built luxury care and nursing home situated in the town of Sutton Coldfield in near Birmingham.
Office - Thames Court - Entrance Matting
Situated in the heart of London’s financial city centre, Thames Court is a busy, multi occupied office building which has won many design awards since it was built in 1998.
TRANSPORT - TODDINGTON SERVICES - ENTRANCE MATTING
The Toddington Moto Motorway Services on the M1 is one of the busiest stops for travelling motorists in the country. The footfall into the north and southbound premises is tremendous throughout every 24 hour period. It never stops. With such intense exposure, the matting in the entrance to the southbound section had become seriously worn and ineffective.
Residential - Lakeview Court Care Home - Entrance Matting
Built in 2010 Lakeview Court is a housing development of 58 extra care single and two bedroomed flats for the elderly. It is a place where elderly people can live together and retain their independence. Knowing all the time that if help is needed the qualified on-site care staff are on hand for any emergency. It is independence with peace of mind!
HOTEL AND LEISURE - Aldwych Theatre - Stair nosings
Quantum Flooring Solutions is a hard act to follow at the Aldwych Theatre in London Bespoke stair nosings have been fitted on the stairs in the Theatre that accommodate the gauge of the extra thick carpet laid in the foyer and on the stairs throughout the public areas of the building.
HOTEL AND LEISURE - The Titanic Hotel - Stair nosings
Quantum Flooring Solutions supplies the stair nosings for a most prestigious hotel in Belfast. Recently restored, the Titanic Hotel in the heart of the old Harland and Wolff shipyard is an historical inspiration of how the past can become the future.
Offices - Elgin - Stair Nosings
Way up north on the shores of the Moray Firth, the old Cathedral City of Elgin is part of an expanding area of business in Scotland. To cope with the increasing demand for office space, the town centre located Caledonian House has undergone a high spec refurbishment. The outcome being a suite of prestigious offices in the new Caledonian House Business Centre.
Office - HM Navy Dockyard in Portsmouth - Entrance Matting
The new Royal Navy’s Ark Royal Building at the HM Navy Dockyard in Portsmouth is dedicated to the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. It has an entrance with an external approach that is exposed to the elements.
Healthcare - Dorset NHS Trust - Entrance Matting
The busy main A&E lobby at Poole General Hospital needed an entrance matting system that would comply with Health and Safety requirements and effectively prevent moisture and dirt from being transferred to the main hospital floor. The matting also had to be wheelchair and caster-wheel friendly. Ambulance crews regularly cross the entrance with heavy trolley beds.
Education - Drapers Mills Primary - Stair Nosings
Ward Flooring were required to fit a Stair Nosing which met DDA and Equality Act guidelines. Whilst helping to create an attractive and colour new learning environment for the school's students. Please click here to continue reading.
Office - Bostik - Stair Nosings
The most suitable solution proved to be Quantum Flooring Solution’s QR-HF153, with it’s deeper riser height, this Heavy Duty Stair Nosing was also suitable for a thicker gauge floorcovering such as carpet. Click here to continue reading.
Education - University of Southampton - Stair Nosings
The University of Southampton is internationally renowned – established among the top 100 universities in the world and rank ed in the top 10 British universities. With almost 25,000 students, it is the largest higher education establishment in the South East of England. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Brighton Museum - Entrance Matting
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery is located in the iconic Ro yal Pavilion garden, at the heart of the city’s cultural quarter. It’s diverse collections brings together the arts with local, world and natural history. The institution attracts approximately 260, 000 visitors per year. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Epsom - Stair Nosings
Epsom Downs is a historic racecourse with a world class reputation, which has hosted horse racing since the early 17th Century. Home of the famous Epsom Derby, the course has a celebrated association with Queen Elizabeth II, and a prestigious position in the national consciousness unsurpassed by other racecourses. Click here to continue reading.
Health - St Richard’s Hospital - Entrance Matting
St Richard’s Hospital provides a full range of acute services for the people in Chichester and the surrounding area, including an Accident & Emergency department. Click here to continue reading.
Residential - Urban Student Life - Stair Nosings
Case Study - Residential - H Range Stair Nosings
Hotel and Leisure - The Hexagon - Stair Nosings
The Hexagon is a well established multi purpose venue, in the heart of Reading that was built in 1977. As well as drama productions, it hosts a range of events such as Dance, Comedy, Classical Music, Rock and Pop concerts. Click here to continue reading.
Education - Cardiff University - Stair Nosings
Floor Furnishings were tasked with fitting flooring in University lecture theatres. The spaces, which would be used by large volumes of people. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Sheiks Nightclub - Stair Nosings
Sheiks is a popular nightclub on the pier in the seaside resort of Bognor Regis on the South Coast which underwent a rebrand and refurbishment in 2015. Click here to continue reading.
Office - PDS - Stair Nosings
Firmly established as a leading supplier of high performance security and fire doorsets to the Social Housing sector, PDS also supply bespoke doorsets to the new build and home improvement markets, providing a fully integrated package including initial concept, design, manufacturing, supply, installation and after care. Click here to continue reading.
Retail - ScS - Stair Nosings
ScS is a home furnishings retailer, specialising in sofas, carpets and flooring, dining and occasional furniture. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Southampton Airport - Stair Nosings
Southampton Airport is an international airport serving over 40 destinations. As the 18th busiest UK airport, it handled over 1.7 million passengers in 2013. Click here for the case study.
Office - FLR Group - Stair Nosing
FLR Group are a leading supplier and installer of carpets, carpet tiles, luxury vinyl and safety flooring in a range of commercial and residential environments nationwide. Click here to continue reading.
Residential - Brunswick House - Stair Nosing
Brunswick House is a superb new residential scheme of 251 bedrooms, incorporating a mixture of studios and cluster rooms. The scheme is designed to offer outstanding student accommodation for undergraduate, postgraduate and international students in the heart of Cambridge, Click here to continue reading.
Residential - Portsmouth Council - Stair Nosings
As part of a major Council Housing refurbishment project Portsmouth City specified the installation of a new vinyl floor covering to all stairwells with new Equality Act compliant stair nosings. Click here to continue reading.
Education - Rhyddings School - Floormitres
Rhydding is a community school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16, with around 1,000 pupils learning from an exciting curriculum as a specialist Business and Enterprise school. The project was a complete refurbishment of all toilet blocks within the school. Click here to continue reading.
Healthcare - Royal Hampshire County Hospital - EcoGlo
The Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester is a District General Hospital serving much of central Hampshire serving a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of west Berkshire. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Scottish National Gallery - Stair Nosings
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is housed in an imposing neo-classical build and is residence to Scotland's outstanding national collection of modern and contemporary art. Click here to continue reading.
Retail - High Street Bank - Stair Nosings
A high street bank in Sheerness required a crucial building upgrade due to health and safety concerns. This required adding Stair Nosings in order to minimise potential slip hazards to their solid marble staircase which previously hand no Stair Nosings. Click here to continue reading.
Education - FloorSkills - EcoGlo
FloorSkills offers high quality training and education for flooring installers in the form of CITB accredited courses and qualifications. Click here to continue reading.
Office - Farm Foods - Stair Nosings
As part of a building upgrade the national frozen food specialists, Farm Foods, required specialist Stair Nosings to help improve health and safety and maintain a professional image on both the inside and outside of their central West Midlands office. Click here to continue reading.
Residential - Havering District Council - Stair Nosings
New flooring accessories were required as part of a major Havering District Council refurbishment of council flats. The Stair Nosings were required to provide complete protection to the stair edge while being fully compliant with Equality Act regulations (formally DDA) which ensure that stairways are safe for all people. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Bradley Hall Golf Club - Stair Nosings
Prestigious Bradley Hall Golf course is located in over 60 acres of picturesque parkland in central Yorkshire. Golf was first played here in 1906 and considerable investment was spent converting the old house into an outstanding club house. Click here to continue reading.
Education - Winchester University - Stair Nosings
Winchester University was granted £15m for an exciting planning project to update five high-quality and affordable student accommodation blocks. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Melbourne Cricket Ground - Stair Nosings
The Melbourne Cricket Ground is a national Australian icon, home to cricket and Aussie rules football, plus many other high profile international events. Click here to continue reading.
Hotel and Leisure - Hotel Royal Barriere - Stair Nosings
The G8 summit is one of the most prestigious and high profile events on the global political calendar and the Hotel Royal Barriere in Deanuville, France was chosen as the location for the 2011 conference. Click here to continue reading.
Education - Vyne Community School - Stair Nosings
The Vyne Community School is a co-educational, specialist school for the performing arts based in Basingstoke. Click here to continue reading.
