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The world's oldest wooden basketball court in Paris, France. Photo courtesy of YMCA Paris.

Intertech Joins Effort to Restore Oldest Basketball Court in the World

As wood flooring experts who’ve installed and refurbished dozens of basketball arenas and wood gym floors, Intertech Commercial Flooring has ...
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Hit the Courts! What to Know About Gym Flooring

By Bill Imhoff and Billy Chrzan As basketball teams return to the courts this season, the flooring underfoot can be ...
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Marathon Petroleum Executive Offices Flooring Project

Project Profile: Marathon Petroleum Executive Offices, San Antonio When the CEO of a major publicly traded corporation needed an executive ...
Austin Texas cityscape - Intertech Voted Best Place for Working Parents 2022

We Did It Again! Intertech Recognized as Family-Friendly Employer

Working parents don’t always have it easy; we know that because many of Intertech’s employees are busy working parents. Some ...
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Why Starnet is Good for Your Flooring Project

Back in the 1990s, the commercial flooring industry was undergoing a significant shift in how it did business. Flooring companies ...
Best floors for senior living facilities

What’s the Best Flooring for Senior Living Facilities?

By Bill Imhoff The aging of America is creating an increasing need for senior living housing options. It’s estimated that ...

What’s the Best Flooring for Restaurants?

By Bill Imhoff When NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt made a stop in Austin this fall, Austin’s restaurant scene ...

Intertech Helping Transform Business in Rio Grande Valley

By Vicente Garza, Vice President of Operations, Intertech Rio Grande Valley If you haven’t visited Texas’ Rio Grande Valley region ...

When a Flooring Company is MORE Than a Flooring Company

Unique Wood Flooring Projects are our Specialty In the flooring business, “close enough” often is just not “good enough.” Intertech ...
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Pets in the Office?

Here’s What to Consider in Flooring By Bill Imhoff As workers begin returning to the office workplace, making that transition ...
Intertech Awarded ABC Safety Performance

Safety is Our Job One

A commitment to safe commercial flooring projects earned Intertech Excellence in Safety Did you know that injury rates in construction ...
Tess Shelton Contractor of the Year

Intertech’s Tess Shelton Named Subcontractor of the Year

This month, our own Tess Shelton, product consultant based in Intertech Flooring’s San Antonio office, was honored as Subcontractor of ...

Flooring Color Trends for 2021

By Tess Shelton - Intertech Product Consultant As a commercial flooring product consultant to Intertech’s customers, I get asked all the ...

Water damage from freeze?

How to save your floors Water damage can occur unexpectedly at any time … a winter freeze that burst pipes, ...
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Intertech Flooring Promotes Solis To Project Manager

Intertech Commercial Flooring, an award-winning provider of commercial flooring products, installation and maintenance throughout Texas and the Southwest, has promoted ...
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The Start of New Era at Intertech

This month marks the start of an exciting new phase in Intertech Flooring’s 33-year history, with our move into a ...
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Intertech Flooring Names New Project Manager

Intertech Commercial Flooring, an award-winning provider of commercial flooring products, installation and maintenance throughout Texas and the Southwest, has named ...
Best Place for Working Parents Designation 2021

What Does It Mean to Be a Great Workplace for Working Parents? 

Supporting our employees is at the very heart of Intertech’s values. So we were honored to learn recently that Intertech ...
reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections

The ABCs of Vinyl Flooring

Understanding Your Resilient Vinyl Flooring Options Vinyl flooring is a proverbial alphabet soup of acronyms that, for those fairly new ...

Intertech’s SUPERCAP Transforms Dollar Tree Store Floors

Experts in concrete flooring challenges By Gilbert Garza, Project Manager and Grant Imhoff, Project Coordinator We all know that 2020 ...

How to Use Holiday Closings to Your School’s Flooring Advantage

By Terry Bessire, Vice President With students and teachers away for an extended break, the holidays are a great time ...
National Adoption Month

What We Are Thankful for This Month

By Bill Imhoff Soon, most of us will gather around our tables – either in person or virtually – to ...
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Four things to look for when hiring a commercial flooring contractor

By Bill Imhoff, President & Chief Executive Officer at Intertech Flooring / W.E. Imhoff Inc. Choosing a commercial flooring contractor ...

Mitigate Risks on Your Next Construction Project

How the Right Flooring Contractor Can Help By Bill Imhoff A colleague once told me, “I don’t need to go ...

Getting back to work: Preparing your post-COVID office space

By Bill Imhoff, President & Chief Executive Officer at Intertech Flooring / W.E. Imhoff Inc. Businesses and many employees are ...

How Flooring will Change Post-COVID

Trends in flooring to adapt to new workplace realities and consumer fears The pandemic has permeated virtually every aspect of ...
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Ensuring Healthy Workplaces

How Flooring Can Impact Indoor Air Quality By Bill Imhoff, President & Chief Executive Officer at Intertech Flooring / W.E. ...
reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections

How can hospitals reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infections — and what does flooring have to do with it?

By Bill Imhoff , President & Chief Executive Officer at Intertech Flooring / W.E. Imhoff Inc. The mandate for hospital ...

Can the Right Healthcare Flooring Help You Improve Patient Care?

By Bill Imhoff, CEO, Intertech Flooring What to look for when choosing hospital flooring Now more than ever, infection control ...

Intertech Partnership Creates Award-Winning Dream Team

Any of our customers who have had the opportunity to work with our Austin-based design consultant, Monica Lenahan, know what ...
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Beauty and the Beast: Floor Coatings that are Tough and Beautiful

In April, Texas Governor Greg Abbott gave Texas Motor Speedway® the green light to offer racing again – albeit with ...
Covid-19 business update

Yes, we are open – Covid-19 Update

April 7, 2020 To our valued customers and partners, I’m sure that you, like I, have received dozens of emails ...

4 Reasons to Consider Tile for Your Next Flooring Project

Tour any new commercial project and it is likely you’ll be walking on tile. Tile is one of the hottest ...

Round Rock Kalahari Resort Drone Video

Enjoy this beautiful drone video created by Cary Brandt of the Kalahari Resorts and Convention center. A 1,000 room hotel ...
Boston Consulting Group End Grain Wood Install

Intertech’s Wood Expertise on Display At Boston Consulting Group’s New Austin Digs

Wise words from Intertech Flooring’s Billy Chrzan, project manager, and wood flooring guru, and he should know. In his 30 ...
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2020 Flooring Design Trends: What’s Hot?

Commercial design and build teams have no shortage of flooring products to choose from. And new options are coming online ...
Bill Imhoff invited to the ABJ Leadership Trust

Intertech’s Bill Imhoff Named to Austin Business Journal Leadership Trust

The year 2020 started off with a nice honor for our own Bill Imhoff, founder and president of Intertech Flooring. ...
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Intertech Helping to Rebuild Port Aransas

A little more than two years ago - August 2017 – Hurricane Harvey came ashore over Port Aransas, Texas, with ...
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Workforce Development: We’re All in This Together

By Bill Imhoff One doesn’t have to look far in Texas cities to see evidence of a construction boom. The ...
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Intertech Begins Work on Massive Kalahari Project

It’s been a couple of years in the coming, but the Intertech Flooring team soon will be starting its work ...
Vicente Garza VP Operations RGV Commercial Flooring

Vicente Garza Named Vice President of Operations

Congratulations to Vicente Garza for his recent promotion to vice president of operations at Intertech’s Rio Grande Valley (RGV commercial ...
Intertech scholarship recipient Kaley McCorquodale

Opening Doors to Design Ideas through Intertech’s Scholarship Program

Intertech scholarship recipient Kaley McCorquodale, second from left, displays her scholarship at the UTSA scholarship banquet September 28 in San ...

Intertech Flooring Provides Official NASCAR Garage Floors

Intertech Flooring Provides Official NASCAR Garage Floors At Texas Motor Speedway® Jan. 3, 2017, Dallas, TX— Intertech Commercial Flooring, the ...
ABC Award Presentation Aug 2016

Intertech Flooring Receives Two Excellence Awards

(August 10, 2016 - AUSTIN, Texas) - Intertech Commercial Flooring, an award-winning provider of commercial flooring products, installation and maintenance ...
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Intertech’s Mark Jones Named to ABC Board

Mark Jones Kudos to our own Mark Jones, vice president of Intertech Commercial Flooring’s San Antonio operations, who has been elected ...
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Developing Austin’s Workforce with the Help of a Good Friend

By Bill Imhoff Alan Miller If you‘ve ever been in the job market in Austin, or been in the market ...
Commercial Flooring Installation Contractors in Texas

What’s the Answer to Overnight Concrete Pours?

There’s been no shortage of chatter in the Austin press over downtown construction concrete pours recently. As high-rise residences proliferate ...
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Intertech Flooring Endowed Travel Scholarship in Interior Design To UTSA Student

UTSA interior design student Michele C. Fuentes, center, accepts the Intertech Flooring Endowed Travel Scholarship in Interior Design at the ...

Marmon Mok & Intertech Flooring win Starnet’s Silver Award in Public Space

Intertech Flooring’s San Antonio Team and Design Firm Marmon Mok celebrate winning Starnet’s Silver Award in Public Space for their ...
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Intertech is Changing Spaces and Changing Lives

Intertech’s carpet donation transformed the dining room into a classroom. As a commercial flooring company, Intertech Flooring is known for ...

Tobin Center for the Performing Arts- San Antonio A Standing Ovation, Please.

Three of our recent projects took home top honors in the 17th Annual Starnet Design Awards, one of the flooring industry’s ...

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum Approachable. Stately. Presidential.

Three of our recent projects took home top honors in the 17th Annual Starnet Design Awards, one of the flooring ...
Solarwinds

Austin’s Solarwinds Space Exudes Energy Intertech’s Gold-Winning Work

It’s a great feeling when your professional peers point to your work as the best in the country. For the ...

25th year celebration and rapid growth

Bill Imhoff's interview with Kemp Harr, editor and publisher of Floor Focus Magazine Bill Imhoff, President and CEO of Intertech, ...

Keeping the Dirt Off

Intertech Flooring’s Guide to Carpet Care A consistent, well-planned maintenance or vitalization program prolongs carpet life and decreases environmental footprint ...

Doing Things Right the First Time – Part One

Consider this typical – and all-too-frequent -- scenario: A local high school installs new flooring in its gym. Less than ...

The One Step You Don’t Want to Skip – Part Two

When the Intertech concrete solutions team is called to assess flooring failure due to moisture, we often find it occurred ...

Cleaning Up Others’ Messes – Part Three

Our concrete specialists are often called upon to fix others’ mistakes in dealing with moisture issues. And while there have ...

Time-Saving Technology

The Most Important Time-Saving Technology in Construction – We have it. It is true – as the exclusive provider of ...

Preparation First Step to Any Flooring Project

Being prepared for a floor installation project is the best way to ensure your project will flow smoothly and with ...

The Value of Doing it Right the First Time

Concrete moisture problems are expensive and all too common in commercial projects. Having the right expertise on board to avoid problems ...

Intertech Constantly Moving Forward

I once had a boss who told me, “You are either moving forward or backward, you are never standing still.” ...

What Does it Take to Be Successful?

Ever wonder what it takes to grow a business from start-up to national leader in the market? Then you’ll want ...

Check Out our Recent Healthcare Work in Dallas!

Intertech’s Dallas/Fort Worth office recently teamed up with FKP Architects on Cook Children’s Medical Center north tower and medical office ...
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Intertech Puts Flooring in Focus at VisionWorks Headquarters

The Intertech San Antonio team recently completed work on VisionWork’s new headquarters in San Antonio, a fast-track project that demanded ...

Intertech Proud to Be on the COTA Team

The arrival of the Circuit of the Americas Formula 1 racing in Austin last year created a tremendous boost to ...

Valuable Support Resources for Designers

As project costs are chiseled down, schedules are tightened and end-users are more demanding on the performance of flooring products, ...

9 Things I’ve Learned About Leadership

I was honored recently to be asked for my thoughts on leadership, by a graduate student in the Executive MBA ...

Check Out Our Latest Work in San Antonio!

Intertech’s San Antonio team recently led our work on the Army Residence Community Expansion, an assisted and independent living retirement ...