A Durable Solution for LifeFlight Maintenance Hangar

LifeFlight Australia, with its core purpose to save lives and serve the community, provides essential aeromedical care daily. LifeFlight Australia offers a suite of aviation and medical capabilities, including the LifeFlight rescue helicopter service and air ambulance jets service.

Elevating Operations for Asset Maintenance

LifeFlight prioritised the coating of their 8,000m² maintenance hangar as it was crucial in ensuring that the engineers and maintenance staff had a properly coated floor, allowing them to effectively maintain and conduct regular checks on LifeFlight's assets.

The Chosen Flooring System

Applicator Bethell Flooring Pty Ltd ensured a durable and reliable flooring solution by collaborating with Dulux® Protective Coatings Peta Bray, a Light Industrial Technical Sales Representative, to determine the most suitable system for the concrete floor. The chosen system consists of a two-coat application consisting of:

1st coat: Dulux® Luxafloor® LGE @ 125-microns (µm), is a high solids, semi-gloss epoxy floor coating that offers exceptional durability and chemical resistance against various solvents. Its robust formulation ensures that it can withstand frequent cleaning, hosing down, and even ponding water without compromising its integrity and exhibits excellent bonding properties to properly prepared concrete floors.
Topcoat: Dulux® Luxafloor® PTX @ 100-microns (µm), is a topcoat that offers high performance and high build properties, with its ease of use ensuring a smooth and professional finish. This versatile product can be used both for interior and exterior areas, offering excellent gloss and colour retention, while also providing good resistance against chemicals and abrasions.

Benefits of the Flooring System

By implementing this two-coat system specified by Dulux Protective Coatings, Bethell Flooring Pty Ltd has provided LifeFlight with a flooring solution that meets the demanding requirements of the maintenance hangar. The combination of Luxafloor LGE and Luxafloor PTX ensures that the flooring can withstand the heavy foot traffic, equipment movement, and potential spills that occur in such an environment.

"We've been very pleased with the results on our new hangar. After its completion, the hangar is in full operation, and in just 7 months, we've witnessed bustling foot traffic, diligent engineers conducting maintenance on our fleet of helicopters and air ambulance jets. We've even successfully managed oil spills without any staining, thanks to the ease of cleanup, with a mechanical cleaner making the floor pristine again.", says Michael Dopking, LifeFlight’s Engineering Operations Manager.