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Early Child Care

The Australian childcare industry is booming, providing great opportunities for architects, designers and builders to sink their creative teeth into. Children are just learning to navigate and be inspired by the world around them and are highly influenced by their surroundings. This means that the design of a childcare centre requires a delicate balance of a practical and safe space for both the children and their educators.

Schools

The Australian government investment in our nation’s schools will increase by 68% over the next 10 years, as 650,000 new students begin their schooling journey. Each state has also pledged extra funding to build new schools and upgrade existing ones. This creates an excellent opportunity for schools to plan, design and create a space that will have a profound impact on the way their students learn and their teachers teach.

Higher Education

For too long, universities have struggled to create interesting, interactive, comfortable and aesthetically pleasing learning spaces. The boring libraries, labs and classrooms do little to encourage learning – instead, they encourage students to run for the hills! Universities are keen to embrace a more active style of learning, where students and teachers interact and collaborate to help increase students’ academic results.

Durability

Durability

Durability and low maintenance are considered together as a criterion for product selection in education. Surface Squared provides materials that perform under tough conditions and don’t contribute to the ongoing maintenance schedule of a building. Our HPL and Stratificato compact laminate don’t need constant touching up or repair and often can be used instead of painted surfaces or melamine materials.

warranty

Warranty

Specify with confidence knowing your materials are backed with a 10 year warranty for both ABET Laminati HPL and Stratificato compact laminate

environment

Environmental

The growth and development of our communities has a large impact on our natural environment. Abet Laminati has been approved for the highest standard of non-toxic material specification in the building industry. Both our HPL and Stratificato compact laminate are approved in all solid colours, textures and timbers in all thicknesses. The Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) is an independently verified document that communicates transparent and comparable information about the life cycle environmental impact of products. Indoor Advantage Gold Scheme relates specifically to Indoor VOC emissions and air quality in environments and is comparable to Greenguard Gold.

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Have you ever been at university for hours on end, desperately trying to feel inspired enough to complete your assignment? For too long, universities have struggled to create interesting, interactive, comfortable and aesthetically pleasing learning spaces. The boring libraries, labs and classrooms do little to encourage learning – instead, they encourage students to run for the hills!

Melbourne’s RMIT University was keen to embrace a more active style of learning, where students and teachers interact and collaborate with each other. This style of learning is becoming popular around the world and has even been thought to double students’ academic results.

Surface Squared was able to turn RMIT’s vision into reality with solutions that not only enabled interactivity within the learning environment, but also added to the aesthetic feel of the campus. So how did we transform boring blank walls into something exciting? Simple – we made them writable! Using our magnetic and writable surfaces range, RMIT was able to create engaging spaces that make brainstorming, meetings and group assignments fun and practical. Our engineered plywood SURPLY Raw was also applied through the floors, walls, tabletops and furniture to create an on-trend, yet practical, decorative timber look.

The final result? A striking, fully interactive area at RMIT where students can collaborate with each other, and their teachers. The new design allows easy sharing of ideas and knowledge in a modern and practical environment. This type of interactive space works in all situations where collaboration is required, such as schools and workplaces.

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