Steve A. Parker

In this article, we look at how the wallpapers available for commercial use are a sharp contrast to conventional decoration options – with innovative features for optimum performance.

Getting floors which are the best value for money doesn't necessarily mean getting the cheapest available, as this article explains.

The wallpaper that a facility manager chooses can say a lot about a business, and there are some decorative solutions which are more effective than others, as this article explains.

Milk-based paints are seen by industry experts as an innovative way to decorate commercial buildings, despite being around for decades. In this article, we explore some of the advantages of milk-based paints.

Decorative concrete is paving the way for commercial buildings to bring their image into the 21st century: both on the inside and the outside.

With cost-savings becoming top priority, facility managers embrace the environmental and cost benefits of maintaining a green building, necessitating the use of green paints and coatings using inventive green raw materials. The result is an ever-widening choice of green paints and coatings in the market today.

An increase in demand for green buildings is fueling the commercial painting contractors industry towards developing greener paint and coating products, recognizing that eco-friendly paints and coatings leave little environmental damage to buildings, which in turn provides increased levels of health, safety and productivity to building occupants.

Many facility managers are joining the efforts of the federal, state and local organizations to stop environment degradation by searching for more and better ways to use green products, methods and technology on the buildings and properties they manage. Building Organizations recognize the two-fold benefits of going green: one is to lessen negative impact to the environment and two is to realize cost savings

With the increasing concern over environment-friendly coating materials and in order to comply with environment safety regulations, epoxy coating is a viable choice in protective coating of steel structures and surfaces because of its natural origin, safe manufacturing process, and non-hazardous application.

Building and facility maintenance is a never-ending process and though costly, it's the necessary cost of ownership. Industrial coatings are subject to environmental regulations that protect end users, and for that reason it's generally good practice to obtain a cost estimate with an industrial coatings contractor before beginning a project.