Raised Access Floor

Installation takes less than half the time of a post and panel raised floor, leading to significant savings in labor costs. In addition, non-plenum rated cabling can be used in a Gridd floor, providing tremendous costs savings in hardwire cable costs.  Lastly, when GriddPower is used with Gridd, the power system uses 30% less copper further reducing costs.

Installed at 1000 sq.ft./installer/day, Gridd is installed by hand without the use of tools, screws or fasteners.  When FreeAxez conducts its training for the installers, and later for the end-user team responsible for the space, knowledge is embedded in the team on hand everyday to be able to lift two simple components, the channel and corner plates to reconfigure the space quickly and easily.

Once on-site personnel are trained, the task of uncovering the floor, removing pieces of the all-steel Gridd floor by hand to move the location of a power/voice/data box to another location to accommodate a change is simple and easy for any operations, facilities or end user client.

Gridd’s low-profile access floor is placed on top of the building’s concrete floor.  As the components of the Gridd floor come together, channels are naturally created to house data, power and voice cabling.  This eliminates the need to cut trenches in the concrete floor thereby fixing the direction the cable runs with little ability to provide flexibility in the future.  In addition the noise, vibration and dust created is extremely disruptive and can negatively impact the structural integrity of the building.  With Gridd there is no dust, noise or disruption, while maintaining the structural integrity of the building and providing maximum flexibility when integrating technology into any space.

Until recently, many organizations had no other choice than to run their precious data and power cabling in the ceiling of the floor below, core drilling through concrete to feed their cabling through to their own space.  In addition to compromising the security of your data cabling, by housing it in another tenant’s space, this creates havoc when needing to upgrade cabling.  When not using someone else’s ceiling space, companies often use their own, then requiring the need to drop unsightly power poles down from the ceiling to workstations throughout the space.  Low-profile access floors have done away with this cumbersome and insecure practice.  With Gridd you tighten up the security of your IT network and open up space all the while introducing maximum flexibility for moves and reconfigurations as your business needs and demands it.

Providing an organized and flexible cable management system.  Eliminating the need for deep dropped ceilings, and with Gridd, committing up to just 2.75″ of height means that the full height of an office interior can be realized.  This opens up the space making it feel spacious, allowing more natural light to flow through the space and creating better air circulation, translates into better space with occupants who are simply happier and more productive.

Unlike raised access floors which install and come apart using noisy drills, Gridd’s low-profile access floor installs without the use of tools, screws, glues and fasteners.  It’s border components make it easy to fit a floor to unique curvatures without cutting the flooring to size.  Gridd sits on top of the building’s concrete structural floors and does not require any core drilling, trenching or even any anchor attachments.  The ease in which it is installed is a testament to its design which allows neighboring working facilities to continue their work in silence and peace as Gridd is installed right next door, above or below.

A raised access floor cannot provide the flexibility of a low-profile access floor.  One major reason why is the plate that needs to be lifted on a raised access floor in order to access the cables laying beneath is upwards of 42 lbs each and requires tools for unscrewing and suction handles to lift.  Gridd’s low-profile access floor has one channel plate, at 1.5 lbs, when lifted by one finger, provides full access to cables laying beneath.  This ease of access allows for reconfiguration and provides any space ultimate flexibility.

Raised access floors mount concrete panels on metal posts.  Because heights of these floors can range from 6 inches to nearly two feet, echoes from footfall are heard every step of the way.  Gridd’s all-steel low-profile floor is embedded with nylon strips.  These strips provide sound dampening and fit so effectively that the Gridd floor feels completely solid underfoot with no noise from footfall whatsoever.

When low profile access floor manufacturers (like FreeAxez) also integrate power (GriddPower) you get the only fully integrated power solution on the market today. Gridd with GriddPower provides multiple advantages in any installed circumstance.  The GriddPower Bus system allows one feed back to the main electrical panel.  This mean one electrician installs the system once.  After that any other electrical connections can be done my a non-licensed installer.  In addition to saving hundreds and in some spaces thousands of feet of electrical cable, the system meets all Title 24 and Seattle Energy Code requirements allowing unmatched energy saving features.