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Featuring Art + Science Collection | Left Product Style: Experiment EcoWorx Resilient | Right Product Style: Observe EcoWorx Resilient

Flooring for dynamic Australian learning environments

Dynamic learning spaces demand flexible design and high-performance materials that work hard under pressure and respond to the unique needs of busy learners. We make a Smarter Impact by asking how floors can help us grow. We provide the foundation for environments that optimise engagement, support teaching and inspire learning.

What if your flooring choices could help students learn in Australia?

In education, learning is the primary focus. When students, faculty, and administration feel at ease in and inspired by their environment, there is a positive impact on the learning process.

Shaw Contract is a trusted partner in education. Our expertise comes from strong relationships with dealer partners, the architecture and interior design community, purchasing, facilities and maintenance departments. We offer an unrivalled breadth of products to serve the needs of students and teachers alike, for clean, comfortable, safe environments and engaging designs. Our flooring lays a lasting foundation for dynamic learning. 

Education collections

Featured In Stock Carpet Tile Education Collections

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Accent is a fundamental collection of value-driven feature colours developed specifically for Australia and New Zealand. With sophisticated and subtle design.

Overhead view of a modern room with geometric patterned flooring in shades of blue and gray, featuring a white bench and a small table, ideal for a workplace setting

Constructed with nuanced colour and punctuated with realistic imprints, making a strong design statement.

Modern office space with dark green commercial carpet tile flooring, white cabinetry, and decorative artwork

Durability, value, and high performance are embedded in a collection that combines a calming aesthetic with efficiency, ease of handling, vast installation options, and the utmost sustainability.

Modern education facility with commercial carpet tile flooring, featuring yellow chairs and large windows

Design has the power to build community by creating
communal spaces that draw people together. The Community collection was created to work together
in harmony. Each of its four core products compliment each other.

Modern office space with glass partition, featuring a mix of commercial carpet tile in gray and patterned design, wooden desk, and orange chairs

Traditional wisdom tells us there’s no place like home. It’s a universal truth. But what if home was not simply a place but a state of mind? The Haven collection reimagines home as a mood, an idea, a quality of comfort and familiarity that feeds our instinctual desire to feel grounded in the world.

Modern education facility with colorful seating and large windows featuring commercial carpet tile flooring

Formative Tile on our cushion-backing, EcoLogix. 

Featured In Stock Resilient Education Collections

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Serene enhances exciting designs by modernising overall aesthetics and introducing authentic wood visuals with subtle, low-gloss finishes. The colourway offers a palette of core colours and visuals that provides visual consistency and design flexibility to meet a variety of specification needs. Combine planks for impactful colour blocking or use a single colour to ground a space.

Modern dining area with checkered commercial ceramic tile flooring, black tables and chairs, and indoor plants

Beyond the boundaries of location and trends, classic styles inspire confidence with their timeless aesthetic. The Function + Flow LVT collection works in harmony as a foundation in any space. Warm to cool neutrals, combined with modern stone and concrete visuals, balance the simple and complex with their timeless aesthetic. 

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Born from EcoWorx® carpet tile backing, an idea we first launched 25 years ago, the Art + Science collection is Shaw Contract's first PVC-free, fully recyclable EcoWorx™ Resilient. As sustainable as it is beautiful and designed for performance in all commercial spaces.​ Art + Science – a cycle completing itself.​​

Modern living room with herringbone hardwood flooring, featuring a brown sofa, armchairs, and a foosball table

The Nordic LVT Collection combines commercial durability with the timeless appeal of Nordic design in a collection of 14 wood visuals. Inspired by the soothing and tranquil Nordic style, this collection is designed to complement any interior scheme with endless design possibilities.

Modern Room with Elegant, Durable Vinyl Flooring

Abide + Inhabit bring us close to nature. Natural materials are the inspiration for interiors where durability, practicality, and resilience are all linked to successful outcomes. Including both planks and sheet vinyl options to suit any educational environment.

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Type LVT explores deconstructed typography, the 5 mm thickness allows installation with carpet tile without the need for a transition strip.

Featured Longer Leadtime Education Collections

Modern office space with colorful commercial carpet tile in blue, orange, and yellow hues, featuring a collaborative workspace with desks and chairs

Campus is a system of carpet tiles that interweave the strands of creativity, contemplation and collaboration with artistic intent.

Modern office lounge area with beige and gray commercial carpet tile flooring, featuring wooden chairs, tables, and indoor plants

This collection is inspired by the natural biomes found throughout the world; our collective desire to bring the outdoors inside, and all the ways you design spaces to with nature—not against it.

Modern education facility with purple and gray commercial carpet tile flooring, featuring colorful seating and large windows

The Set Up collection lets you create dynamic work and learning spaces with both hard and soft flooring options.

Modern office space with two women interacting, featuring a stylish grey and orange patterned commercial carpet tile flooring

What makes teams work? When each person brings their unique talents, ideas and strengths to the team, that’s when the real magic happens. 

Education facility with colorful commercial carpet tile featuring gray, yellow, and green squares, modern furniture including a round table and vibrant seating

Inspired by moments of whimsy within our common landscapes, Creative Zone becomes the building block that reinvents the spaces where we learn, work and grow.

Two women sitting on a modern ottoman, reviewing design swatches on a textured commercial carpet tile in shades of beige and rust

Individually we are unique, together we are whole. Collective includes 3 plush styles and 5 foundational styles that work effectively across all segments where teamwork is essential to success.

Solutions

Flooring For Positive Outcomes

With over 200,000 square metres of carpet tile and resilient products In Stock In Australia, we’ll help keep your project on time, every time.

Carpet tiles are Cradle to Cradle certified for: Material Health, Material Reutilisation, Water Stewardship, Renewable Energy and Social Responsibility.

And at the end of your carpet's useful life, we’ll pick it up and recycle it at no cost to you - that’s the Shaw Environmental Guarantee.

"No Rules" mergeable dye lots make it easy to mix and match replacement tiles over time without worrying if colours will exactly match previous orders.

Products constructed with our Solution Q Extreme® fibre repel stains, ensuring easy to clean carpet for the long-term.

EcoWorx carpet tile backing offers significant advantages, by using 40% less energy to produce & weighing 40% less than traditional carpet tile.

Faster, Easier Installation

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Hale Junior School by SITE Architecture | 2019 Design Awards People's Choice

LokDots®

LokDots® is a pressure sensitive adhesive for the installation of EcoWorx® carpet tile. This non-toxic and odourless system provides an alternative to wet adhesive, virtually eliminating the issue of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), and providing ease and versatility of installation.


Proven performance. Easy installation

  • Durable applicator requires no maintenance and little training
  • When installed with EcoWorx® tile, no moisture or pH testing required
  • Adheres to carpet tile backing during removal without damaging subfloor
  • Installs over concrete, VCT, VAT, raised access floors and wood
  • LokDots eliminates the mess, curing time and odours of wet adhesives, allowing immediate occupancy and making it an ideal installation method for occupied education spaces
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Modular Meets Mergeability

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Mindful Play- a "No Rules" Collection

No Rules Collections

Our "No Rules" carpet tile collections can be installed in any configuration you desire.

Design details like colour patterning, layered textures and smart gradations mimic nature as they make the carpet easy to install, mix dye lots and replace as needed.

  • BE RANDOM- Install “No Rules” carpet tiles in any configuration for faster installation and reduced labour costs. When a tile needs to be replaced, simply remove the old one and put a new one down in any direction.

  • MIX DYE LOTS UNDETECTABLY- Mergeable dye lots offer unique colour patterning, layered textures and smart gradations that make it even easier to mix and match replacement tiles over the course of time without worrying whether colours will match previous orders.

  • SELECTIVELY REPLACE TILES AS NEEDED- No Rules carpet tiles provide the ability to replace small sections of flooring, ordering material as needed instead of keeping track of attic stock. Replacing a few tiles at a time is a great way to lessen your carbon footprint.


Contact us to discover "No Rules" collections today!

Carefully Considered Acoustics

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Select the best floor covering to achieve your desired IIC rating

Active learning encourages lively engagement of students within classrooms and throughout entire schools. As more voices are being projected within a single space at a single time, smarter flooring choices can enhance your soundscape.

Our patented Sound Advisor tool gives you the ability to select the right flooring combination for your needs. By considering your floor and ceiling construction, Sound AdvisorTM allows you to hear the acoustic difference between a variety of hard and soft surfaces, with or without underlayment. You can also instantly download test results for peace of mind. 

VISIT SOUND ADVISOR
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Project Features

It is our foundation to celebrate the optimism of design, and its ability to influence our everyday lives. The below projects are just some of the incredible Education projects submitted into our Shaw Contract Design Awards from Australia and New Zealand. 

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Featuring Dye Lab Collection

Monash Business School Alumni Centre 

by BKK Architects

Melbourne, VIC

2020 Design Awards

Photography by Derek Swalwell

Modern education facility with teal walls, wooden ceiling, and teal commercial carpet tile flooring
Modern education facility with blue and gray commercial carpet tile flooring, featuring a conference table and blue chairs

Featuring Haven Collection

Academy Of Global Competency 

by Tom Mark Henry

Sydney, NSW

2021 Design Awards

Photography by Simon Wood

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Modern education facility with vibrant geometric patterned carpet in shades of purple and gray, featuring young adults collaborating in a bright, open space

MLC Nicholas Learning Centre

By McIldowie Partners Architects

Melbourne, VIC

2020 Design Awards

Photography by Peter Bennetts

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Education facility with students walking on patterned commercial carpet tile in shades of teal, beige, and gray

Hale Junior School 

by Site Architecture

Perth, WA

2019 Design Awards

Photography by Dion Robeson

"K-12 education facility with children engaged in activities, featuring a mix of light wood flooring and orange and gray patterned carpet tiles."
Children sitting on commercial carpet tile in a vibrant education facility with colorful wall art and storage cubbies

Featuring Colour Frame Tile

Frankston Primary

by Chaulk Studio

Melbourne, VIC

2019 Design Awards

Photography by Jaime Diaz-Berrio

Education facility classroom with circular wooden partitions and dark carpet flooring


Looking for Further Inspiration?

View Education projects submitted into our Design Awards program here.

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Contact Us to Discuss Your Next Project

Our dedicated team members are here to help provide solutions for your next education project.