Education

McCutchenville Elementary School by glenn|partners

Designing Education Environments for the Future

At Shaw Contract, we understand that every learner is unique. We know learning environments influence and play a vital role in the development of our children. These spaces unite us. They provide a foundation for the future of our communities. Together, we have a responsibility to create environments that support a feeling of safety, belonging, and familiarity. A place where every individual can find their identity. A place where everybody counts.

What if your flooring could help students learn?

When students, faculty and administration feel at ease and inspired by their environment, the learning process is positively impacted. Shaw Contract provides the foundation for environments that optimize engagement, support teaching and inspire learning. We make it our mission to design products that serve the needs of each learning mind for clean, comfortable, engaging and safe environments where learning minds can grow.

Inspiring creative learning spaces

Optimize Engagement, Support Teaching
and Inspire Learning

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Diffuse Color + Disperse Color

Based on one of our bestselling designs, this collection provides pops of color on a neutral base to convey your school's identity and spirit.

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Color at Work II

A system of colors and visuals designed to create collaborative zones within the spaces where we learn and play.

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Set Up

Create dynamic learning spaces that encourage inquiry, action, imagination and collaboration, building the foundation for creative ideas to grow.

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Education Solutions

Dynamic learning spaces demand flexible design and high-performance materials that work hard under pressure and respond to the unique needs of busy learners. These insights reflect a few of the principal opportunities and challenges that we’ve identified after dozens of semesters in the education sector.

A recent study reveals that the physical aspects of a classroom such as color, light, textures and air quality could improve a student's learning progress by up to 16%.

By tailoring flooring to students' functional needs within a holistically designed space, we can positively impact their learning experience.

Product Human Impact is an integrative approach designed to enhance student, teacher and community experience while addressing a broad range of design choices including safety, acoustics, material health and biophilic design.

Acoustics

Active learning encourages lively engagement of students. As more voices are being projected within a single space at a single time, smarter flooring choices can enhance your soundscape - encouraging positive emotional and physical responses in the space.

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We believe that the process guides us to action. Our vision is to understand learning environments around the world so that we can design flooring to provide the foundation for these communal spaces. As part of our journey, we have developed tools and resources to inspire your learning space.

Palettes – curated to combine color, texture and materials.
Installation Ideas – explore ways to build pattern scale in your space.
Visualization Services – available to create rendering files based on floor plans, design inspirations or sketches.

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StudioOne is here for you with inspiration, thought starters and tools to fuel your next project. It’s all about saving time so you have more of it to do what you love. Let’s start.

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Hickory Ridge Elementary School by Yates Chreitzberg Hughes Architects

Together, We Walk Forward With Purpose

Our view of sustainability takes a holistic approach in which we create a positive impact on people and the planet. We are driven to design product solutions that enhance the human experience and well-being in learning environments, while minimizing our use of natural resources.

PEOPLE TOGETHER, PLANET FOREVER