Industry
ESD flooring for data centers and network rooms
Equipment positions, network operations floors and 911 dispatch centers carry an ESD requirement that comes from the equipment, not from a manufacturing process.[1]
What is different about these rooms
Live power changes the calculation
Rooms with energized equipment often specify a higher floor resistance band for personnel safety. FAA-STD-019 does exactly this, at 1.0 x 106 to 1.0 x 109 ohms.
Raised floor or slab
A resinous system goes on the slab. Where there is an access floor above it, the ESD path and the access floor's own grounding both have to be understood together.
Uptime decides the sequence
These rooms rarely stop. The phasing conversation matters more here than the coating conversation, and it is where most of the cost sits.
Sources
- ANSI/ESD S20.20-2021, the ESD control program standard for electronics handling
ESD control program requirements (administrative and technical) for any organization that handles ESD-sensitive electrical or electronic parts.
www.esda.org - Conductive and dissipative ESD epoxy technical data sheet, resistance and cure figures
Cited here for the conductive flooring/coating resistance band. The ESD Association's own consumer-facing page states only the <= 1.0 x 106 ohm ceiling with no stated floor.
www.arcat.com
Every number on this page came from one of those documents. Send us the room and we will tell you which of them your floor has to answer to.