Interviews / 9/16/2025

Where resistance meets versatility

Resin and cementitious flooring: design, durability and sustainability for modern offices

Interviewee

Piercarlo Rocca

Corporate Director, Cementitious and resin flooring, Mapei

In this interview, Piercarlo Rocca, Corporate Director for Cementitious and Resin Flooring at Mapei, highlights how cementitious and resin flooring solutions address the needs of modern offices. These systems combine durability, versatility and sustainability with endless design possibilities. From high footfall resistance to easy maintenance, these surfaces ensure safety and long-lasting performance. Mapei recommends innovative solutions from the Ultratop and Mapefloor ranges tailored to both aesthetic and functional requirements.

How far does resin and cementitious flooring meet the specific needs of modern offices, in terms of design, sustainability and wear-resistance?

Cementitious and resin floorings are a perfect fit for modern offices, because they are versatile, sustainable and durable. From a design viewpoint, they offer endless aesthetic possibilities, with bespoke colours, textures and finishes, to create seamlessly surfaces and harmonious environments. It’s also durable and easy to maintain, making it an innovative, sustainable solution for modern office spaces.

The seamless flooring made with Ultratop system meet all requirements of durability, resistance and ease of maintenance.

What are the main challenges to consider when designing and laying cementitious or resin flooring in high-footfall areas such as offices?

Mapei products and systems meet the highest standards in terms of their potential impact when used in high-footfall environments. Protecting health and safety is the company’s main focus, so floor layers and users of Mapei flooring systems have nothing to fear on this front. Flooring needs to withstand continuous traffic without deteriorating. Maintenance plays a key role in this: surfaces must be easy to clean and care for, without compromising their appearance.

The anthracite grey floor completed with Ultratop flooring system at Zeiss headquarters in Germany, with a continuous surface evoking the appearance of concrete, is a perfect fit for the modern design of the offices.

Which solutions does Mapei recommend for cementitious and resin flooring for office applications?

Mapei offers smooth, self-levelling resin-based systems of the Mapefloor line (including elastic and soundproofing systems), while its Ultratop line of cementitious floors offers solutions with a trowelled or polished effects, for floors and walls alike. Like countless other solutions by Mapei, these offer high wear-resistance and very low emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC), alongside easy cleaning and maintenance. The final choice is a combination of the aesthetic requirements of the end-user and a symbiosis with the surrounding environment, where design and safety merge into one.