Safe. Handsome. Trendy. Seamless floors and walls.

Those who now park their bikes in the IJboulevard bicycle parking facility enter a bright hall with seamlessly finished walls, a safe non-slip floor, clear signage and appropriate decorations. The City of Amsterdam knew it had come to the right place for this with Bolidt.

What the visitor experiences is only part of the requirements that the City of Amsterdam imposed on the finish of the floors and walls in bicycle parking IJboulevard. Besides being beautiful and anti-slip, the floor finish had to be wear-resistant, seamless, breathable, waterproof, resistant to chemicals and fire-resistant according to the Bfl-s1 standard. "The amount of requirements does not make sense to us," says Peter Staal, Parking & Infra manager at Bolidt. "Our flooring systems can meet almost any requirement."

Organization and perception

But in addition to product requirements, there were also organizational requirements - the materials had to be transported by water - and experiential factors. Steel: "The user must feel comfortable in the storage facility. You achieve this with a safe, light and clean floor equipped with the right wayfinding. Nowadays, this broad set of requirements is more the rule than the exception. We have already clad and furnished several underground parking basements for the City of Amsterdam. After all, these are becoming more and more common."

Just for special situations

Bolidt specializes in synthetic floor and wall finishes, precisely for these special situations. With three underground parking bins of 1,300 m2 each and immersed in situ, this was certainly the case at IJboulevard. "The combination of 'breathable' and 'waterproof' also fell into the 'special' category," says Staal. "The breathability is important for the underlying concrete floor; the waterproof qualities speak for themselves. From these kinds of impossible combinations, our designers spring to life."

Bolidt develops the synthetic floor and wall systems entirely in-house, from design and testing with R&D to production, advice, installation and maintenance. "This gives our customers a single point of contact, both in the design and construction phase and in the operation phase. Moreover, special requirements are easier to realize when all the specialists are at the table."