Underfloor Service Distribution for Offices

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Green Buildings
Owner Occupied
Developer Multi-Tenant
Education
Government
Equipment Rooms
Renovation
Casinos

GREEN BUILDINGS Download Project list 30KB
A well-designed green building improves indoor environmental quality, provides flexibility, saves significant resources in construction, operation, and maintenance. It also reduces waste and cuts first and life-cycle costs compared to conventional design.

Tate provides the expertise to utilize the Building Technology Platform® (BTP ) as a key ingredient to integrated systems. Through underfloor distribution of power, voice & data cabling, and HVAC services, BTP enables cost-effective integration of building components, including structure, lighting, furniture and wall systems.

This integrated approach allows the BTP to influence three key categories of LEED™ environmental goals – indoor air quality, materials and resources, and energy and atmosphere.
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OWNER OCCUPIED Download Project list 50KB
The perfect working environment in an office building needs to address a variety of needs. These needs include maintaining high-quality clean air, improving personal comfort control, attenuating noise, responding to organizational and technology changes quickly and easily, and supporting the overall aesthetic value of the building – all while being cost-effective in both during building and operation. With Tate’s Building Technology Platform®, you’ll be able to address all of the factors required to create the perfect working environment that reflects the goals and image of your business.

Using Underfloor Service Distribution offers the ability to react and adapt to your facility’s need for change. The modular design provides the flexibility to accommodate ever-changing technologies, organizational and architectural improvements, and new environmental regulations with minimal expense and disruption. Whether your goal is to create a healthy productive work environment or to provide a low-cost, flexible office space, Tate Access Floors provide easy and simple solutions now, and in the future.
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DEVELOPER MULTI-TENANT Download Project list 20KB
The Building Technology Platform® (BTP) offers developers a cost effective way to improve their building’s market attractiveness and gain a competitive edge. Most traditional core and shell buildings do not respond to tenant demands for efficient, flexible and adaptable space. The BTP offers developers an opportunity to respond to tenants demands with a service distribution system that is not only flexible and adaptable, but also improves indoor environment quality, provides personal comfort control, and reduces tenant initial fit-out and operating costs while at the same time increasing the buildings value and reducing the cost to build and operate the building.

A Core & Shell office building incorporating Tate’s Building Technology Platform® will enhance your ability to attract tenants by providing a superior service distribution solution that will provide:

• Complete flexibility and reconfiguration capability
• Improved indoor environmental quality (IEQ)
• Point of use services wherever you need them
• Total accessibility and unlimited capacity
• Improved personal comfort control
• Improved energy efficiency
• Lower fit-out costs
• Lower operating costs
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HIGHER EDUCATION Download Project list 20KB
Tate Access Floors provide significant advantages in maintaining air quality and control of a facility’s environment. Air quality, access to additional sunlight, correct thermal and humidity conditioning, and proper acoustics all work together to create a comfortably maintained learning environment. Properly managed environments have been proven* to significantly impact student health, comfort, and learning performance. The modular wire and cable design allows you to adapt to change easily and at a low cost. With Tate Access Floors adapting to ever-changing technologies, fluctuating class sizes, architectural changes and improvements, new environmental regulations and standards will no longer demand expensive facility investment and construction costs. Tate underfloor systems allow you to update your technical capabilities, floor plan, HVAC controls, and image, using your own effective and low-cost resources.
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K-12 Download Project list 20KB
Before graduation, a typical child will have spent 14,000 hours breathing school air.* The education Technology Platform provides healthy learning space through an integrated ‘whole building’ approach. Tate’s Education Technology Platform features high performance underfloor HVAC services that provide improved indoor air quality, enhanced comfort control, daylighting opportunities, and improved acoustics meeting today’s most stringent government and environmental standards.

* According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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LIBRARIES Download Project list 20KB
Today’s modern library is more than books and computers - it serves as a community meeting place. In order to accommodate the multi-functional demands of today’s libraries many architects and designers are incorporating access floors with underfloor service distribution. Underfloor air distribution provides a cleaner more comfortable indoor environment, and the point-of-service wire & cable distribution adds convenience and flexibility for accommodating future technological changes. Access floors also eliminate the need for overhead service distribution giving the designer the freedom to create an aesthetically unique building and take advantage of additional daylighting opportunities. Using access floors in public spaces such as libraries help to create a healthy enjoyable environment for visitors of all ages.
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GOVERNMENT Downalod Project list 35KB
Managing government facilities carries significant responsibilities. There is a growing public interest in building and operating green to increase energy and resource efficiency, cut waste, and to improve the performance of facilities. Ultimately, the goal is to make the government work better and cost less.

Proactive government can transform conventional building practices into an approach that reduces the environmental impact of construction-related activities while producing meaningful savings to the taxpayer. Government at all levels is using Tate Access Floors to create a better work environment and ensure improved indoor air quality, reduce material resources and increase building efficiency.
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EQUIPMENT ROOMS Download Project list 30KB
As data centers become more sophisticated and floor space utilization more critical, access floors are now more than ever an integral part of these environments. With the structural capacity to handle endless rows of heavy equipment racks, and exceptional underfloor air delivery to keep equipment cool, even when heavily congested, access floors are the most cost effective and efficient solution for this type of environment. Underfloor wire/cable management offers the flexibility and ease of access essential for this changing and demanding market. High pressure laminates and static control vinyl tiles offer the protection required for sensitive equipment without compromising the safety of staff members.
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RENOVATIONS Download Project list 20KB
A large number of existing commercial office buildings were not designed to accommodate the advances of information and communication technology and the resulting necessary integration of power, voice, data and air distribution requirements which are integral in creating an effective and productive work environment. Therefore, the space within these buildings is unsuitable for efficient modern business use.

The renovation of an existing building with Tate’s Building Technology Platform® can yield cost savings, increased flexibility, and improved indoor environmental quality over traditional overhead fixed-in-place service distribution systems for a vast array of applications. Ensure your existing building’s viability now and for years to come by choosing Tate on your next building renovation project.
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CASINOS Download Project list 20KB
Expertise and experience in supporting a wide range of technical facility demands has allowed Tate to create service distribution systems and products specifically designed to meet the requirements of today’s casino environments. Tate’s Gaming Technology Platform provides many advantages to casino owners and gamers alike. Large amounts of wire and cables can be delivered to the point-of-services under the access floor making access to accommodate future technological changes faster and easier than conventional construction. The floors are constructed of concrete filled steel panels to support heavy loads. In addition, using underfloor air distribution creates a more comfortable gaming environment and helps remove smoke from the occupied zone through ceiling returns.
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