01 Xi'an Gathering, Shopping & Home ShoppingThe Xi'an (IKEA) Gathering Shopping Centre project is the largest wholly foreign-owned commercial project in Shaanxi Province, the fifth in China and the first Gathering Shopping Centre in the west. With a construction area of about 320,000 square metres, the project is divided into two underground floors and three above ground floors, including the shopping mall and IKEA. Upon completion of the project, it will become a landmark building in the south of Xi'an, combining East and West cultures, traditions and modernity, and ecology and the city, and will be a large-scale commercial complex combining shopping, home furnishings, catering, entertainment, recreation, and children's education.
Xi'an IKEA Aloha Centre has been awarded LEED Gold and China Green Building 2-Star certifications. It is the first metropolitan centre in China to achieve 100% renewable cooling and heating sources.

As one of the "World's Most Valuable Brands", IKEA is a symbol of the city's economic outward orientation and internationalisation.
Since entering the Chinese market in 1998, IKEA has been serving Chinese consumers for 26 years. The strong consumer power of the Xi'an market has been publicly recognised by IKEA: the opening of the first IKEA shop in Xi'an in 2015 set a new record for visitors and member registrations for an IKEA store worldwide.
Now the opening of IKEA Xi'an has put Xi'an back in the spotlight of the national commercial market. It can be said that the construction of Xi'an as a "National Consumption Centre" has been raised to another level.


02 Xi'an Benchmark Commercial Building
With 3,000+ parking spaces and 770+ new energy charging spaces, Xi'an Ikea is the shopping mall with the most charging spaces in Xi'an, and the owner has always been advocating a healthy, green and ecological shopping environment from the customer's point of view.
The owner pays the same attention to the garage project of Ikea Gathering Xi'an, and has very strict requirements for the garage flooring materials. The flooring programme selected the original concrete ground directly sprayed curing agent. In the pre-sampling session, the selected flooring material suppliers are required to carry out penetration tests of curing agent materials, which took 2 months, and the final test results showed that the lithium-based curing agent of SpecChem reacted completely, with high gloss and excellent effect. The owner used LithSeal SC lithium-based curing agent for the construction.

Difficulty of this construction
1、Short construction time is reserved, and it is required to complete the construction of 100,000 square metres of flooring within one month, which is almost impossible in other projects.
2、Original floor surface grass-roots level is poorly treated, mottled, broken surface layer, flatness is not enough, can not directly spray curing agent.
3, the construction environment is poor, the construction of the patio is not sealed, the shopping mall rain leakage, resulting in done garage was soaked.
Solution
Ikea Aloha garage flooring project overall led by SpecChem, we recommended to the owner of the professional construction unit, Shaanxi Tongsheng Dijiu company led by the national empowerment team of more than 100 craftsmen to work together. Under the technical guidance of SpecChem, the project included the repair of the original ground level and the grinding of the backing strip to ensure that the ground was restored to a state suitable for spraying curing agent, and finally 100,000 square metres were successfully completed in one month's time.
With patience, determination and perseverance, SpecChem is confident that no matter what problems arise, we will co-operate with the contractor to solve the problem at the first time and maintain the smooth running of the whole project.

After the completion of the project, the brand has been highly recognised and satisfied by both the owner and the general contractor, and the flooring presentation has far exceeded expectations. SpecChem not only participated in the Xi'an Ikea Gathering project, but also in other Ikea projects around the world, including Panyu Ikea, Tianjin Ikea, Harbin Ikea, Nanning Ikea, Xuzhou Ikea, Kunming Ikea and Jinan Ikea, etc. SpecChem's high standard and high quality of delivery has made the flooring industry a new quality productivity. With high standard and quality delivery, SpecChem has written a new chapter of new quality productivity in the flooring industry!

SpecChem Lithium-based Liquid Hardener Systems
Liquid Hardener is an active, colourless, transparent, chemical and aqueous preparation that penetrates the concrete surface to seal, densify and harden. It provides longer life, lower maintenance costs, safe to use and less dusty after application. It is VOC compliant, odourless, environmentally friendly and easy to apply. The treated surface is not only wear-resistant, but also more resistant to erosion from various chemicals and water penetration. It does not leave a film on the surface and does not change the natural non-slip texture of the concrete floor.
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