greening our it floors
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Access Floors OnSite Mission and Business ModelTRANSCRIPT
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Keeping America OnLineRaised Access Flooring, IT’s Physical PlatformRaised access flooring has been supporting our technical and IT installations for five decades. What began as structural steel beams and solid steel plates has become a system of 2’x2’ welded steel isotropic panels and supportive understructure consisting of pedestals and cross braces.
Responding to demand over the past 50 years, access flooring manufacturers have stamped out, welded and installed over 100 million square feet of flooring for the US market.
The dot com boom exhausted domestic manufacturing capacity and created a pipeline for Chinese manufacturers to the US. There are now roughly 60 businesses producing raised floor panels in China. Only one domestic Access Floor manufacturer remains (under foreign ownership).
Recovery and ReinvestmentWell before “GREEN” was a buzzword, Access Floors OnSite was founded on a premise of
environmental, social and fiscal responsibility
GREENING OUR IT FLOORS
In the standard business model for an Access Flooring Contractor/Vendor, the goal is to sell and put in place as many
new 2‘x2’ panels as possible. A floor panel whose surface has worn out would be replaced by an entirely new panel with a factory fresh floor covering. The structural access floor panel and the wear surface are viewed as an homogenous single product. The fact is, the panel and the wear surface are separate, produced by two completely different
manufacturing concerns and (in the standard business model) bonded together by the Access Floor Manufacturer to be packaged, trucked, delivered handled and installed by their dealer.
Emerging from the original business model and driven by the 24/7 needs of the FAA/ Enroute Air Traffic Facilities, Access Floors OnSite developed a new business plan. Armed with new technology and a service driven approach, Access Floors OnSite developed procedures and a culture that is truly green at its core. We focus on the remanufacture of existing American made materials. We execute the work at the source of the material. The virtually new product can be installed right back where it came from or shipped off to be installed elsewhere. The concept is simple, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly. Ancillary benefit: Our OnSite services provide what has emerged as our finest virtue, new J-O-B’s in every locality in which we work.
www.accessfloorsonsite.com [email protected] tel. 866-984-9991
www.accessfloorsonsite.com [email protected] tel. 866-984-9991
In a footprint extending from Fairbanks, AK to Miami, FL, Access Floors OnSite has been delivering its unique brand and service based product for a business demographic that includes: Government Agencies, Fortune 500 Businesses, DOD Facilities, Network Operation Centers, Satellite and Telephone Communication
sites, Technical labs, Hospitals, and of course, Web-farms and server rooms.
Consider the worlds largest consumer, the US Government. Acres of installed access floor sites are being vacated, decommissioned or discarded every day. The available material needs to be put back into service creating an opportunity to put people back to work.
Since 1997, Access Floors OnSite has been in the business of Recovery and Reinvestment in American products, the global environment and local jobs. True triple bottom line benefits.
Mobile OperationsEnabled by our “factory on wheels” Access Floors OnSite has been returning structurally sound, top
quality raised access floor panels back into service for over a decade
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