Sustainable Benefits
Tate Access Floors provide significant sustainable advantages for the construction and operation of a building. Tate’s Building Technology Platform® can significantly reduce construction materials through the elimination of ducts, wire and cable drop down lengths, and building shell materials through a reduction in slab-to-slab height.
The underfloor HVAC system operates at much lower pressure and warmer temperature than a traditional ducted overhead system. These features help improve energy efficiency through the reduction of mechanical equipment and longer economizer hours. Reusing service supply materials such as wires, cables, outlets and diffusers during reconfiguration further improves the life-time sustainability of any government facility.
The underfloor HVAC system operates at much lower pressure and warmer temperature than a traditional ducted overhead system. These features help improve energy efficiency through the reduction of mechanical equipment and longer economizer hours. Reusing service supply materials such as wires, cables, outlets and diffusers during reconfiguration further improves the life-time sustainability of any government facility.
Keys to creating a more sustainable facility
- Deliver air from the floor at low pressure to utilize natural convection and maximize energy efficiency.
- Deliver air closer to the occupants so that warmer temperatures can be used expanding economizer opportunities.
- Power, voice, data, and heating and cooling services can all be reconfigured reusing the existing materials.
- Reduce construction materials thereby eliminating the harmful emissions required to produce and ship those materials.
- Include low VOC products made of recycled materials.
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