Commercial Flooring News
Industry trends, project highlights and news from Intertech.
A commitment to safe commercial flooring projects earned Intertech Excellence in Safety Did you know that injury rates in construction are 71% higher than injury rates across all industries on average, according to the National Institutes of Health? And that the construction industry accounts for 8.5% of all injuries that result in lost days of work, per…
This month, our own Tess Shelton, product consultant based in Intertech Flooring’s San Antonio office, was honored as Subcontractor of the Year by the Associated Builders and Contractors South Texas Chapter. Congratulations to Tess on this great honor and her many contributions to ABC-South Texas and the commercial construction industry in the San Antonio area.…
By Tess Shelton – Intertech Product Consultant As a commercial flooring product consultant to Intertech’s customers, I get asked all the time about trends, especially color trends. Here’s some of the most recent trends I am seeing in colors, and products. The Comfort of Home After so many people worked from home so long, there’s a…
How to save your floors Water damage can occur unexpectedly at any time … a winter freeze that burst pipes, a plumbing malfunction that floods offices, roof and window leaks from Austin’s sporadic rainstorms. Water-damaged floors cause costly work disruptions or stoppage and can create long-term repercussions if moisture mitigation isn’t handled promptly and professionally.…
Intertech Commercial Flooring, an award-winning provider of commercial flooring products, installation and maintenance throughout Texas and the Southwest, has promoted Mark Solis to project manager. Solis first joined Intertech in 1997 as a commercial flooring installer. In 2004, he was promoted to project coordinator, a position he held for the next 17 years. During Solis’…
This month marks the start of an exciting new phase in Intertech Flooring’s 33-year history, with our move into a new headquarters location on Burleson Road. When we moved into our previous space 17 years ago, Austin’s population was just under 700,000 (today, it exceeds 1 million). That was the year that Qualcomm Corp. constructed…
Intertech Commercial Flooring, an award-winning provider of commercial flooring products, installation and maintenance throughout Texas and the Southwest, has named Grant Imhoff as its newest project manager. Imhoff brings 15 years of commercial flooring experience to his new position. From 2014 to 2020, he managed commercial flooring sales across Oklahoma and Texas for LATICRETE® International,…
Supporting our employees is at the very heart of Intertech’s values. So we were honored to learn recently that Intertech Commercial Flooring has been named a 2021 Best Place for Working Parents business in Austin. Why putting family first is important The vast majority of employees these days – including those who work at Intertech…
Understanding Your Resilient Vinyl Flooring Options Vinyl flooring is a proverbial alphabet soup of acronyms that, for those fairly new to the world of commercial flooring and project management, can be a bit challenging to decipher. How do you know the difference between VCT and LVT? What about BBT or SV? And once you have…
Experts in concrete flooring challenges By Gilbert Garza, Project Manager and Grant Imhoff, Project Coordinator We all know that 2020 brought its share of challenges, but challenges are something that we at Intertech are very accustomed to overcoming. One of the challenges we often encounter at Intertech is uneven subfloors, and last year was no…