CASE STUDY: Healthcare Vinyl Flooring for Manipal Hospitals, Bengaluru

Manipal Hospitals

Flooring For One of India's Leading Healthcare Networks

Manipal Hospitals began its journey in Bengaluru in 1991 and has grown into one of India's leading multi-specialty healthcare networks. Today, the group has a presence across multiple cities, with more than 12,600 beds and a strong focus on clinical excellence, patient-centric care and accessible healthcare.

A healthcare environment of this scale is a world of constant movement. Patients, doctors, nurses, technicians and support teams move through corridors and clinical spaces every day, while stringent cleaning and hygiene protocols remain integral to hospital operations. This makes every element of the built environment - including the floor beneath it all - an important part of the larger healthcare ecosystem.

A FLOOR THAT HAS TO KEEP UPHE SQUAREFOOT SOLUTION

For Manipal Hospitals, the requirement extended across a substantial 80,000 sq. ft. installation in Bengaluru. This is our 19th hospital for them in the last many years.

In a space where foot traffic, bed traffic and medical equipment is relentless and maintenance is continuous, the flooring needed to deliver a combination of durability, hygiene, ease of cleaning and long-term performance. It also needed to provide a consistent finish across a large area while remaining practical for a demanding healthcare environment.

Healthcare flooring is functional first with requirements for anti germ, anti bacterial and anti fungal flooring which can take any kind of emergency or healthcare chemicals spillage on the same as patients life is the most important there. We are also able to provide colour therapy with our wide variety of colours and choices ensuring no hospital flooring is simlar or mundane.

Why Vinyl Flooring Is Used in Hospitals?

One of the most common questions when specifying hospital flooring is: Why choose vinyl flooring for healthcare environments? The answer is that healthcare vinyl flooring can combine several practical requirements in a single flooring system.

1. Easy Cleaning and Maintenance

Healthcare facilities require regular cleaning. Flooring with smooth, cleanable surfaces can simplify routine maintenance and help facility teams maintain the required cleaning protocols.

2. Suitable for High-Traffic Areas

Certain homogeneous vinyl flooring solutions are designed for heavy and very heavy traffic areas, making them suitable for demanding commercial and healthcare applications.

3. Resistance to Stains and Chemicals

Depending on the flooring range and specification, vinyl products can offer resistance to stains, chemicals and disinfectants used in demanding environments.

4. Fewer Exposed Joints

When specified with appropriate heat-welded seams and coving systems, sheet vinyl installations can reduce exposed joints and support a more sealed flooring system.

5. Design and Colour Flexibility

Healthcare interiors do not need to rely on a single visual treatment. Different colours and patterns can support zoning, wayfinding and a more welcoming environment for patients, visitors and staff.

6. Bacteria and Fungi Resistant

Homogeneous Vinyl comes with Bacteria and Fungi Resistant properties which ensures a clean environment inside a hospital as recommended by JCI

THE SQUAREFOOT SOLUTION

Squarefoot supplied and installed Vinyl Flooring across the project, providing a resilient and practical surface suited to the demands of healthcare spaces.

Vinyl is widely used in healthcare because it can create smooth, hygienic surfaces that are easy to clean and maintain. Tarkett's healthcare flooring solutions are designed around infection prevention and control, with seamless or heat-welded installations helping minimise joints and create more watertight floor-to-wall systems. Their homogeneous vinyl solutions are particularly suited to heavy and very heavy traffic areas because of their durability and ease of maintenance.

Square Foot is Tarkett's long-standing distribution partner in India, working with Tarkett in the Indian market since 1995. We provide Tarkett commercial flooring solutions across India through our nationwide network of showrooms, dealers and flooring professionals.

Beyond everyday cleaning, modern healthcare vinyl can also be engineered for specialised requirements. Depending on the application, solutions can offer static-conductive or static-dissipative properties, acoustic performance and enhanced slip resistance. Tarkett's homogeneous vinyl ranges are also designed to withstand demanding use while allowing surface restoration through dry-buffing, helping extend the life of the flooring and simplify long-term maintenance.

80,000 SQ. FT. OF PERFORMANCE

At this scale, flooring is no longer just a finishing element. It becomes part of the infrastructure that supports the everyday functioning of a healthcare facility.

Across 80,000 sq. ft., Squarefoot delivered a flooring solution designed to work quietly and consistently alongside one of Bengaluru's leading healthcare networks - helping create spaces that are clean, practical, resilient and ready for the demands of everyday care. Because in healthcare, the floor has a job to do - every single day.

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