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Tate's
Building Technology Platform® provides
first and life cycle cost savings. Please
feel free to review our Cost
Studies, as well as the
articles listed below.
Reduced
First Cost
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Selling
Green in the Spec Office Market, Gary
Christensen, The Christensen Corporation, March
2008,
Building
Design & Construction
For example, the additional
cost for underfloor air distribution was offset by
requiring less mechanical equipment for air distribution
and modular electrical distribution, says Christensen. |
Selling
Green in the Spec Office Market, Randy
Swearingen, VP of office development
with Aardex, Golden, Colo., March
2008, Building
Design & Construction
For instance,
to help cover the additional first costs
for the building’s
underfloor air distribution system, the team reduced
the height of the building by approximately one foot
per floor, which “dramatically lowered our
building skin cost,” says Swearingen. “Integrated
design was a major time and money saver.” |
Modular
Construction: Separating
Myth from Realty , September
2007, Boston Business Journal
"Many
believe a raised access floor
adds a significant upfront cost
to a project when used as part
of an underfloor air delivery
(UFAD) system. This perceived
premium is considered to be a
major barrier to the growth of
UFAD and more widespread acceptance
of this energy-efficient system.
When considered as a stand alone-line
item, raised flooring does represent
an incremental cost to the overall
project budget, but it is the
offsetting cost-saving opportunities
that have proven to make this
design strategy a cost-effective
approach. |
FedEx
Inst of Tech, R. Babcock, Oct 2004, Buildings
Magazine
"An underfloor
HVAC system was installed, and raised floors
and modular wiring throughout the facility
promote technology changes.........The savings
related to the HVAC system & associated
building systems have amounted to $200,000." |
Alcoa
53: Cleveland, OH, Linda Bloom, August
2000, Properties Magazine, Article
"The
heating system, raised access floor
system, and indirect lighting system,
are all state-of-the-art, some done
for the first time in the area.....If
conventional design and construction
methods had been used, the work above
the dropped ceiling would have been
far more extensive.." |
Reduced
Life Cycle Cost
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47
million Green Regional Bus Facility
Opens in Tempe ,
October 2007, AZ
Central.com
"Valley Metro
driver John W. Blake gazed around at the
comfortable, glistening, spacious drivers'
lounge in the brand new East Valley Bus Operations & Maintenance
Facility in Tempe and had just one word to
say.
"Awesome!" The site was part of ongoing efforts "to
make Tempe environmentally sustainable." Ken
J. Anderson, project architect, said evaporative
cooling is used throughout the facility to
save energy and money, and an under-floor
air distribution system reduces energy usage
by up to 47 percent. " |
Airway
Systems, J. Halza, Aug 2004, Buildings Magazine
"An underfloor-airway
system is used in conjunction with an access
floor (see Figure 1).... Underfloor-airway
systems can offer major savings in life-cycle
costs." |
Circle
of Winners: KSBA, March 2004, Call Center
Magazine
"The project incorporates
many of the advanced systems pioneered by
KSBA including raised-access floors........
The results: improved building and occupant
performance either at no additional cost
or, at modest, additional capital costs with
respectable returns that often = more than
300%." |
Value
Driven Design, Sept 2003, Buildings Magazine
"Many design concepts
are more cost-effective in the long run vs.
initial installation. Examples include raised
flooring ......which allow for greater flexibility
and faster, less expensive moves." |
Breath
of Fresh Air from Below,
Sept 2003, Globe
& Mail, Article
"For office
building developers and owners in a period
of high vacancy rates, raised floors
can provide a competitive edge....The
cost can be up to $4.80 a square foot
a year. With a raised-floor system, that
can drop to less than $1." |
Money
Matters, Linda K. Monroe, August
2002, Globe
& Mail, Article
"By comparing one
of the state’s more traditional buildings...with
one he calls “a high-performance green
building, predicated by it being located on
a raised floor and using that as your heating
and cool air distribution plenum – which
is the absolute key to being able to make
this happen,” he has calculated a 90-percent
reduction in costs." |
Both
First & Life Cycle Cost
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Hardware
Today: What's On Your Server Wishlist? Serverwatch.com,
October 2006
"Purse string
issues may limit the options for taking the
the heat out of the server room, but possibilities
remain. Take the subject of the floor tiles.
Perforated tiles are generally placed in
the cold aisles to bring cold air to the
heat load. Most people don't give them a
second thought. But Tate Access Floors of
Jessup, Maryland, has found out with a new
slant for this everyday item. Its GrateAir
tile is an aluminum grate that has twice
the open area of regular tiles. That translates
into a 300-percent increase in cubic feet
per minute of cold air into the server room." |
Underfloor
Air Distribution: What Is
It? College Planning
& Management, April 2005
"When it comes
to comparing first cost to lifecycle
cost, initial research shows that underfloor
systems provide savings from improved
flexibility, thus reducing costs associated
with office recon-figuration, or churn." |
Current
Knowledge of Under Floor Air Distribution,
BetterBricks.com
"What about costs?
Can a UFAD approach lower costs from either
a first cost or total cost of ownership perspective?" |
UFA
Distribution & Access
Floors, Energy Design Resources,
Design Brief
"Taken
together as an integrated
system, the under-floor air
distribution system with
an access floor can afford
the building owner an overall
decrease in life-cycle cost." |
Walking
On Air, Joseph Halza, July 2003, Today's Facility
Manager
"The cost to install
an underfloor system is typically less than
the installed cost of a traditional overhead
system.... While the amount of savings will
vary with each application, it can represent
significant dollars in both operating and
life cycle cost." |
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