Xi’an Super Flooring Technology Co., Ltd
As late as 2008, the Gold-winning FL on a narrow strip floor was FL 67. This company from China not only won a Golden Trowel on their first entry, but they set a World Record FL 159.8 doing it!
FF 106.8
FL 159.8
World Record FL
5 Kg m² shake
20 Kg m³ steel fibers
2025 m²
3.3 m Wide
Ashine Diamond Tools Mfg. Ctr.
Hui’an, Fujian, PRC
Alphapiso
This huge floor, over half a million square feet, with 72-ft wide pours, got a Word Record FF and the second-highest F-Number totals ever in the super-large Laser Screed category. Alphapiso is no stranger to the podium, and this is their 17th Golden Trowel award, and their fifth World Record.
FF 106.8
Very Large Laser Screed
FF 121.7
FL 78.5
WORLD RECORD FF
48,697 m²
21.8 m wide
4 Kg /m² Dry Shake
CLIR Imigrantes V
São Paulo, Brasil
Kent Concrete
Kent Concrete produced this large floor using a Somero S-22 EZ laser screed. All four Fmin Numbers are over 138, which is phenomenal. These are the third-highest F-Numbers ever achieved in this category.
110,000 ft²
6247 linear ft
Fmin:
LLevel 138.6
LFlat 138.1
TLevel 148.0
TFlat 172.7
Ross Dress for Less DC9
Randleman, NC
Azzurri Concrete
This is Azzurri Concrete’s 2nd award. This is a large project (274,000 sf) with slabs that were 105 ft wide. In this category, this is the 3rd highest FF and Total F-Numbers to date. They used a combination of Somero S-22 EZ & S-22 E screeds.
21 Kg/m3 steel fibers
FF 135.6
FL 117.7
25,410 m²
32 m Wide Bay
Erskine Park, NSW, Australia
Alphapiso
This 70,000 sf floor has the second-best FF Number ever. In 2006, we gave a Golden Trowel in this category for a project that was FF 61 / FL 51. What a long way we have come in the last 20 years!
FF 141.6
FL 105.2
6479 m²
16.5 m Wide Bay
REC Taboão
São Paulo, Brasil
Ciclo Engenharia
This is the second-highest overall FF + FL combination ever in this category. The two trowels this year bring Ciclo Engenharia’s total awards to 5.
FF 107.4
FL 94.5
1899 m²
9m wide
4 Kg /m² Dry Shake
Haskell Cosmeticos
Atibaia, SP, Brasil
VEMAC
This Fmin floor was made using novel attachments to Somero Laser screeds. This is VEMAC’s second award in the Golden Trowel contest.
21,000 ft²
8 Aisles, 1150 linear ft
Fmin:
LLevel 102.5
LFlat 129.0
TLevel 107.2
TFlat 166.0
JOBE Valley Chili Slab
Anthony, TX
Baker Construction
This floor is the first ever that we have evaluated in this category.
98,719 ft²
FF 77.4
87 ft Wide Bay
Scheels All Sports Cedarview
Cedar Park, TX
Ciclo Engenhari
This is the second-highest overall FF + FL combination ever in this category. The two trowels this year bring Ciclo Engenharia’s total awards to 5.
FF 118.7
FL 124.6
2888 m²
3.8 m wide
4 Kg /m² Dry Shake
Haskell Cosmeticos
Atibaia, SP, Brasil
Silver Trowel 2025
This floor would have won the Golden Trowel had it not been for Alphapiso’s World Record in this category. Imagine doing this well, day after day, in 112 ft wide bays, until you have gotten through 617,000 square feet of floor. This floor is better than the Word Record in this category in 2014. They used a Somero S-22 EZ laser screed.
Orion Concrete Construction, LLC.
FL 80.1
617,000 ft²
112 ft Wide Bay
Empire West #10
Brookshire, TX
Silver Trowel 2025
This floor, like Orion’s, is better than the Word Record floor in this category in 2014. It is hard to differentiate between this floor and Orion’s, since Gran Nobre’s floor was a point better in both FF and FL, but Orion’s was larger and much wider. The judges agreed to give both Orion and Gran Nobre Silver Trowels. Gran Nobre used a Somero SRS-4 laser screed. This is their 4th award in the Golden Trowel contest.
Gran Nobre Pisos Industriais
FF 109.4
FL 81.2
54,691 m²
22.1 m Wide Bay
HSI - Syslog Araucária
PR, Brasil
Silver Trowel 2025
This floor, like Orion’s, is better than the Word Record floor in this category in 2014. It is hard to differentiate between this floor and Orion’s, since Gran Nobre’s floor was a point better in both FF and FL, but Orion’s was larger and much wider. The judges agreed to give both Orion and Gran Nobre Silver Trowels. Gran Nobre used a Somero SRS-4 laser screed. This is their 4th award in the Golden Trowel contest.
Gran Nobre Pisos Industriais
FF 109.4
FL 81.2
54,691 m²
22.1 m Wide Bay
HSI - Syslog Araucária
PR, Brasil
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