Naturescapes HPD™ by Teknoflor®, the first resilient flooring product to receive Living Product Challenge (LPC) Petal certification from the International Living Future Institute (ILFI,) captured the prestigious Nightingale Gold award in the resilient flooring category at the Healthcare Design Expo and Conference. Held at the Phoenix Convention Center, November 10-13, the Healthcare Design Expo and Conference is sponsored by Healthcare Design Magazine and is the premier design exposition and conference for healthcare interiors in North America.
Presented by Healthcare Design and Contract in partnership with the Center for Health Design, the Nightingale Awards recognize contribution to the healthcare built environment through product design and innovation that contributes to healing. Named after Florence Nightingale, the awards recognize an outstanding product’s contribution to the healing environment, as well as additional functionality, durability, and quality.
About Naturescapes
Teknoflor’s Naturescapes HPD is the brand’s first luxury organic sheet flooring made from organically-derived polyurethane processed from castor oil. This resilient sheet flooring product has all the advantages of resilient sheet vinyl: durability, easy maintenance and versatility but without the vinyl. The product offers twenty-four beautiful designs in three distinct styles that can be used independently or together. Naturescapes HPD is ideal for healing environments. The ILFI’s LPC is a product certification program, advocacy tool, and philosophy that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability and transparency in product manufacturing today. The Challenge is comprised of twenty imperatives spread across seven petals (performance categories): Place, Water, Energy, Health & Happiness, Materials, Equity, and Beauty. Teknoflor Naturescapes HPD has received Petal certification as a result of Shannon’s completion of sixteen imperatives within the Place, Health & Happiness, Materials, Equity, and Beauty petals. The company has aspirations to pursue additional petals and imperatives.
About Shannon Specialty Floors
Shannon Specialty Floors, Inc. is a major manufacturer and distributor of flooring products with a strong focus on Healthcare, Senior Care, Government, Corporate, Hospitality, Retail and Education environments. Shannon supplies floors that provide durability and state-of-the-art technology with a strong emphasis on no-wax, no-buff commercial resilient flooring including heterogeneous and homogeneous sheet vinyl, tiles and planks, and non-vinyl flooring. You can find more information at https://shannonspecialtyfloors.com.