Responding to human need to reconnect with natural environments, design in healthcare and aged care is moving ever closer towards serenity. Supporting architectural design and interiors, flooring provides powerful assistance in places where people live, work and heal.

The Wilderness Retreat Collection uses biophilic design to create a relaxing experiential oasis. Borrowing from nature's elements and calming retreats, the collection transforms typically, cold, clinical facilities into warm, comforting habitats. Creating spaces that feel like a refuge, and that nurture wellbeing.

Evidence-based design shows that integrating natural elements into the built environment advances healing and motivation. Inspired by Australian and New Zealand coastal landscapes, the collection enables those who can't normally interact with nature to benefit from doing so - with colours and patterns sourced from the natural world to provide these design-led restorative benefits for patients and productivity for care teams.

Made locally using Designer Jet technology and certified Declare Red List Free, the collection is designed with all aspects of healthcare in mind. Featuring our integrated moisture impervious system, HealthBac is a tried and tested impervious barrier against moisture penetration to the sub-floor and assist with bio contaminant control. 

In a world where we look for sanctuary in every setting, Wilderness Retreat delivers on the heavy performance requirements of healthcare environments, with aesthetics that stimulate the energy and spirit of patients. residents, care providers and visitors.

Wilderness Retreat

From 1865 to today – Godfrey Hirst was one of Victoria’s first textile mills. Every day, thousands of metres of carpet are produced in our local facilities and our flooring can be seen in major building developments across Australia, New Zealand and the world.

With over 150 years of local manufacturing and supply experience across Australia and New Zealand, Godfrey Hirst provide almost all types of flooring imaginable. Our portfolio consists of products designed to meet the needs of various channels in the construction process, from stylish architect, designer and specifier ranges, through to quality builder solutions available at competitive prices.

Get in touch with your local GH Commercial consultant to find out more about our Godfrey Hirst products.

Godfrey Hirst

Godfrey Hirst Commercial Carpets & Flooring - GH Commercial

Pebble Field

<h2>For Wall-to-Wall Coverage.<h2>
GH Commercial offer a selection of high-quality and heavy duty commercial grade carpets. 
Including Australian and New Zealand made carpet, choose from a high-performance synthetic fibre or a premium wool fibre. Our broadloom carpets offer a variety of wall-to-wall patterns, textures and backings designed to suit any project.

Featuring a wide range of size, exceptional acoustic properties and underfoot comfort, our best commercial carpets are designed to improve indoor environments providing a safe, comfortable and
insulated space for building occupants.

Solution Dyed Nylon (SDN) and BCF Yarn Dyed Nylon are synthetic fibres that are extremely durable, making them suitable for commercial installations.
<h3>Quality Commercial Carpet Solutions</h3>
The Feltex selection of commercial broadloom carpets and carpet tile provide the ideal solution for commercial spaces that require a robust flooring that looks great for years while standing up to heavy use.

Made from solution dyed nylon (SDN) or BCF Yarn Dyed Nylon, Feltex commercial broadloom carpets and carpets tiles provide the ultimate in carpet performance and stain protection.

Featuring a selection of size options, exceptional acoustic properties and underfoot comfort, Feltex commercial carpets are designed to improve indoor environments providing a safe, comfortable and insulated space for building occupants.

If you are looking for a solution dyed nylon carpet for your home, visit our sister brand - <a href="https://www.redbookcarpets.com/">Redbook Carpets</a>.

Commercial Broadloom

Carpet

Restorative

Transform

Composure

Unity

Spirit

Revive

Remedy

Wellness

Haven

Serene

Desert Shadow

Expansive Plain

Sand Dunes

Arid Terrain

Higher Ground

Ridge Valley

Preserve Survival

Blazing Escape

Designer Jet Carpet (on Health Bac) GH Commercial

Taking a cue from the appearance of limestone and granite, Coastal Serenity comprises of large scale patterns with the capacity to transform a space, with a usable backdrop of unique features and intricate colouring suitable for health and aged care interiors. 

Label

Certificate

Direct Stick

Guide

Broadloom Carpet

Broadloom

Brochure

As one of Australia’s largest manufacturers and exporters of residential and commercial carpets, Godfrey Hirst produces thousands of metres of carpet in state-of-the-art Australian facilities every day.

<h3>An Australian Story</h3>

Our Australian history spans back to 1865, when the Victorian Woollen and Cloth Manufacturing Company began operations in Geelong and was purchased in the 1890’s by Godfrey Hirst. Godfrey Hirst’s entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of the industry lead to the great success that was furthered even more so by the McKendrick family in the 1960s. In 2018, the Godfrey Hirst business was acquired by Mohawk Industries, the world’s largest flooring company, expanding its product offering and capabilities to a global scale.

Commercially, our customisation capabilities and vast archive of designs are trusted for major projects in all market segments across workspace, retail, hospitality, healthcare, education, public space and multi-residential in Australia, New Zealand and around the world.

Our partnership with the official Australian Made campaign aligns us with Australia’s most trusted, recognised and widely used country of origin symbol, underpinned by a third-party accreditation system that authenticates genuinely Australian products.

<h3>Investing in local</h3>

Our local investment in people, manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution provides total supply chain capability, ensuring quality control and consistency from product design, right through to delivery. We are proud to have a loyal and long serving inclusive and diverse workforce while managing organisational renewal to ensure excellent mix of new thinking and deep knowledge.

As a global flooring solution provider, we offer the largest portfolio in the world, featuring products that people trust to use in the spaces they live, learn, work, play and rest. Through our local in-house design, manufacturing and distributing facilities, we provide locally based support with our passionate and knowledgeable design and sales teams. From high quality Australian and New Zealand Made wool, synthetic and triexta carpets, and an extensive range of carpet tiles and planks along with world class hard flooring solutions in hybrid, timber, laminate and vinyl our goal is to connect you with the right product and make specifying flooring for your next project a breeze.

<h3>First Australian Carpet Manufacturer to achieve Climate Active Carbon Neutral Organisation Status</h3>

Taking real climate action as an organisation means voluntarily going above and beyond current regulations to achieve net zero carbon emissions. At Godfrey Hirst, we do. Godfrey Hirst Australia has achieved Climate Active Carbon Neutral organisation status and are proud to be the first Australian carpet manufacturer to do so. Furthermore, Godfrey Hirst New Zealand is also now a carbon neutral organisation.1

Investing in innovation and technology are the hallmarks of Godfrey Hirst, and when it comes to improving existing systems and processes our commitment to excellence is continually at the forefront.

1Godfrey Hirst Australia Pty Ltd and Godfrey Hirst NZ Ltd are ‘carbon neutral’ organisations. This means that those entities purchase and voluntarily retire carbon offsets equivalent to their annual carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from sources within their organisational boundary. For New Zealand, organisational GHG emissions are accounted for in accordance with ISO14064-3:2018.

Australian Made

Impervious Healthcare Backing

PVC Free

BPA Free

Pthalate Free

This carpet has been classified under the independent Australian Carpet Classification Scheme (ACCS) labeling system according to it's durability and retention, receiving the maximum four out of fours stars for commercial use. 
It is suitable for areas with extremely heavy traffic flow such as busy shops, public areas, offices, clubs and hotels.
<a href>Learn more about the ACCS</a>.

Contract Extra Heavy Duty - 4 Star

Contract Extra Heavy Duty and Suitable for stairs - 4 star.

Green Building Council

This certification ensures strict quality control through every step of the manufacturing process, right through to finished goods and after sales support focusing upon the identification and rectification of root cause of any quality issues and the desire to continuously improve and develop.

ISO 9001 Quality Management System

Demonstrates Godfrey Hirst ability to consistently provide products that meet customer and regulatory requirements.

This certification helps our organisation to enhance our environmental performance and manage our environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability.

ISO 14001 Environment Management System

Demonstrates Godfrey Hirst commitment to protecting the environment and reduce waste management costs. 

AS 4801

Designer Jet

Designer Jet Sheet on HealthBac

Our most popular carpets and hard flooring, the Mid-range carpet and hard flooring category offers all-around performance with excellent comfort, design and features, including stain resistant carpet, wear resistant carpet, soil resistance carpet and fade resistant carpet that’s often Australian made, New Zealand made and designed for local conditions. 
Mid-range hard flooring options include extra scratch resistant flooring, dent resistant flooring, engineered flooring that looks just like real timber, water resistant flooring and more. Mid priced carpets and hard floors are most often used to add value to owner-occupied homes and higher-end investment properties. They really hit the sweet spot for designer carpet boasting some of the best features, with incredible value.

Mid Range

<h3>
 We Have Something Exciting to Declare.
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 In a marketplace increasingly focused on environmental considerations and issues around sustainability, Godfrey Hirst are incredibly proud to have products officially approved Declare® LBC Red List Free.


 The International Living Future Institute (ILFI), and local affiliate the Living Future Institute of Australia (LFIA), are organisations committed to driving sustainable change in the Australian Built environment through the development of leading edge programs, that are designed to radically change our approach to building and construction.


 Predicated on creating a healthier built environment, the Declare® program delivers clear, unambiguous information about building material specifications. Participating manufacturers are required to disclose a Product’s entire constituent chemical composition to a threshold of 100-parts-per-million; essentially creating a ‘nutrition’ label of ingredients.

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 A product transparency program
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 Each Declare® label is compared against a list of worst-inclass materials, better known as the Red List. Chemicals on the Red List can pose an increased risk of:

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 Polluting the environment
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 Bio-accumulation of contaminants progressing up the food chain
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 Negative health implications for factory personnel, construction industry workers and building occupants
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 Aware of our role in developing products that homeowners can comfortably put in their homes, we worked with our entire supply chain to identify, source and utilise the healthiest possible manufacturing ingredients. When we were confident our products met the stringent sustainability and toxic free chemical standards, we applied for LFIA Declare® approval.


 <img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/gh/image/upload/v1/apps/gh-web/images/red_list_free-feature-img_001-id-0225810520.jpg" alt="kids playing video games on couch and plush triexta carpet">

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 The Declare® initiative has three declaration statuses:
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 LBC Red List Free - Complete ingredient disclosure revealing ZERO Red List chemicals
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 LBC Red List Approved - Where chemicals or product ingredients have no available public information, or a manufacturer is unable to publicly identify an ingredient due to proprietary registration. Products may potentially contain Red List chemicals, which, if identified, will be highlighted in orange
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 Declared - This base level of transparency, while revealing a product’s ingredients, will nevertheless contain some Red List ingredients, which will also be highlighted in orange
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 This label addresses three key concerns:
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 Where does a product originate?
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 What is it made of?
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 Where does it end up at the end of its life?
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 Each of our products are individually approved and the label can be downloaded from the product page and please <a href="https://www.godfreyhirst.com/au/support">contact us</a> if you have any questions.


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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/triexta-residential-carpet-a001-2">Triexta Residential Carpet (A001) Declare label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/triexta-residential-carpet-a002-2">Triexta Residential Carpet (A002) Declare label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/triexta-blend-broadloom-carpet-75-25">Triexta Blend Broadloom Carpet Declare Label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/100-wool-broadloom-carpet">100% Wool Broadloom Carpet Declare label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/wool-broadloom-carpet">Wool Broadloom Carpet Declare Label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/wool-blend-broadloom-carpet-80-20-2">Wool Blend Broadloom Carpet (80/20) Label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/sdn-carpet-on-endurabac-godfrey-hirst">SDN Carpet on Endurabac® Declare Label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/sdn-fr-carpet-on-endurabac-godfrey-hirst">SDN FR carpet on Endurabac® Declare label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/sdn-carpet-on-actionbac-godfrey-hirst">SDN Carpet on Actionbac® (NZ) label</a>
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 <a href="https://declare.living-future.org/products/duratuft-soft-pet-carpet-godfrey-hirst">Duratuft Soft PET Carpet Declare label</a>
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Declare® Red List Free

 Declare® Red List Free approved carpet.

Textured Loop Pile uses loops of varying heights to create unique patterns and interesting textures. The loops ensure a hard-wearing carpet that works well in medium to high-traffic rooms.
<ul><li>This style is also known as High-Low Loop Pile, Multi-Level Loop Pile or Patterned Textured Loop Pile.</li>
<li>Can be used in a random or sequenced design to create textures or patterns</li></ul>

Textured Loop Pile

An extension of the Australian Carpet Classification Scheme (ACCS), the Environmental Certification Scheme tests carpet to ensure they meet stringent environmental performance standards such as volatile organic compound emissions, noise reduction and thermal insulation properties (For more information visit: <a href="https://www.carpetinstitute.com.au/environmental/">www.carpetinstitute.com.au/environmental/</a>)

As a prerequisite for the ECS program, carpet manufacturers must comply with the Code of Practice for Environmental Management (including performance criteria for raw materials, the manufacturing process, the carpet during its use and at the end of its life).

ECS Level 4+ is the highest standard within the ECS program. This stringent program is a Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) approved third party, with ECS Level 4+ certification providing at least a minimum of 12 Green Star points.

ECS Level 4+

Environmental Certification Scheme Level 4+

Coastal Serenity

Nautical Aura

Aqua Essence

Salted Estuary

Seaside Solace

Tranquil Tide

Island Oasis

Halcyon Harmony

Today, the case for patient ease and comfort as a measurable factor in speedier recovery times has been well and truly established, giving architects and designers the opportunity to create beautiful, practical and highly functional healthcare interiors.

Taking design cues from hospitality and home spaces, healthcare environments are increasingly places of residential familiarity. Rooms are modelled on patient’s emotional wellbeing, privacy and comfort.

Without compromising on form or function, see our range of healthcare flooring solutions below.

Healthcare

With an aging population, assisted living facilities and senior living communities are on the rise. Designing a long-term living facility to look after our older loved ones involves striking a careful balance of connecting function and practicality with a beautiful, homely, familiar feel.

Using evidence-based design, we’re dedicated to understanding the unique requirements of senior living spaces, giving peace of mind to residents, families and care giving staff alike. Our flooring solutions are durable, safe and sustainable, featuring the perfect level slip resistance without compromising on cleanability. 

Working with providers of all sizes, we ensure all flooring facets from independent living and assisted living to high-care or special-care spaces are catered for.

Photo Gallery

Colours

510

Halcyon Harmony

520

Island Oasis

530

Tranquil Tide

540

Seaside Solace

720

Aqua Essence

740

Salted Estuary

930

Nautical Aura

Complementary Products

Pebble Field

Desert Shadow

Photo Gallery

Colours

510

Halcyon Harmony

520

Island Oasis

530

Tranquil Tide

540

Seaside Solace

720

Aqua Essence

740

Salted Estuary

930

Nautical Aura

Complementary Products

Pebble Field

Desert Shadow

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