Traditional power and data distribution is rigid and wasteful. Embedding power and low-voltage data cables in ceiling, walls and other structures limits flexibility by making change expensive and disruptive. Labor, material costs and down-time prohibit reconfiguring your space as your business needs change.
Reduced impact on base building
Access floors eliminate the need to embed power and data within concealed rigid structures, thereby allowing tenants the freedom to access services quickly and easily. Limitless access to these services provides the ultimate tenant flexibility. An architecture firm using open ceilings and an open plan layout on one floor can as easily be accommodated as a law firm with private office design on the next floor.
Complete accessibility and unlimited capacity
An access floor provides you with access to your service pathway at any location on the floor plate, with finished floor heights that accommodate any capacity needs.
Tate products and sustainability
Tate products provide many sustainable advantages throughout the construction and operation of a building. During the construction phase, an Underfloor Service Distribution System allows a reduction in slab-to-slab height, decreasing the amount of required construction materials including eliminating ducts and reducing power and data cable lengths.
In operation, an underfloor HVAC system performs at a much lower pressure and warmer supply temperature than a traditional ducted overhead system, boosting indoor air quality, energy efficiency and personal comfort control. Lower system pressure helps improve energy efficiency through the reduction of mechanical equipment and longer economizer hours. Additionally, the ability to reuse service supply materials such as wires, cables, outlets and diffusers during reconfiguration further improves the lifetime sustainability of any facility.
Our customers enjoy sustainable and high-performance benefits by using Tate solutions in their buildings. Some of those benefits include:
- Improved energy efficiency
- Healthier indoor environmental quality
- Reduction of material use
- Design possibilities that allow for a more flexible and adaptable built environment
- Reuse of service distribution materials during reconfiguration