DLW Linoleum’s Marmorette prescribed for hospital refurbishment

When Armitage Associates was asked to mastermind the í16 million refurbishment of the landmark five-storey Glasgow Royal Infirmary University Tower, the architects preferred to specify linoleum wherever possible.

Jeremy Armitage, partner in the Glasgow-based architectural and interior design practice, said: “We wanted to use linoleum. The reasons were simple: it’s available in good colours, it’s a ‘green’ material and is naturally biocidal.”

Press Release

International vinyl and linoleum flooring specialists Gerflor supplied 4,000mÇ of Marmorette from the DLW Linoleum range for the building, which hosts a mixture of laboratories, offices and medical teaching facilities for the hospital and Glasgow University. The facade of the 1970s building was changed to allow much more light into the previously “claustrophobic” interior and the Marmorette was used to create visual appeal and identification.

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