Grounding Raised Floor Systems

General 3 1 description 3 1 1 raised access floor system consists of 2 by 2 square steel floor panels either hollow or filled supported by an understructure of pedestals and stringers.

Grounding raised floor systems.

Grounding system for the access floor. The grounding of the weak current system will mainly be directed to the grounding measures of the computer network center the electronic reading room the audio visual reading room and the floor distribution line weak electric shaft and the grounding measures with field devices. Tia decided in late 2007 to update this data communications grounding and bonding standard for low voltage installations with a b. Raised floor grounding system.

For over 55 years tate has been an industry leading global provider of innovative next generation solutions for raised access floor structural ceilings and data center containment solutions. Performance in the data center is affected by equipment not being grounded or bonded. At t practice att tp 76402 issue 11 09 01 2015 page 6 of 43 3. If the floor will be installed on grade or below grade a copper grounding rod can be driven into the ground creating an earth ground for the floor.

Therefore the telecommunications industry association tia is working to expand its one and only existing grounding and bonding performance standard ansi j std 607 a. Step 1 drive the 4 to 6 foot rod into the ground until only 2 or 3 inches of the rod remains exposed. For stringer and bolted corner lock systems have a contractor wire the access floor system to a bolt and three 3 successive pedestal heads and run the wire every 1 000 square feet. Figure c in locations where the access floor system is being grounded install the rtg connector.

So that is sort of one extreme. Unlike traditional raised floors gridd s simple and revolutionary design is a raised floor system that easily adapts to the changing growth of your business. In one case the engineer designed a cross over grid system where every other raised floor pedestal was grounded and each grounding clamp was quite expensive. My only past experience with grounding a floor has been in data centers where there is 120 208 480v above and below a raised floor that is 3 4 feet tall.

Ask yourself what building design doesn t deserve easy flexible access to power voice and data wherever. Also called raised flooring access flooring or raised access computer flooring a raised floor is a construction model in which an elevated floor is built above a building s original concrete slab surface thereby creating a hidden void between the two floors that is used for the passage of mechanical and electrical services.