Austin-Round Rock (Lockhart-Bastrop corridor)Bastrop County
Conductive ESD flooring, Bastrop, Texas
Racks, dispatch desks and network positions in Bastrop carry a static requirement that comes from the equipment rather than from any production process. The record here shows aerospace manufacturing, data centers.
The measured record for Bastrop
Equipment capacity in Bastrop County is what drives the requirement here, not how many people live nearby. Each entry names its source.
EdgeConneX is building a $1.44 billion, four-building data center campus in Bastrop County
EdgeConneX is building a $1.44 billion, four-building data center campus in Bastrop County (Cedar Creek); the first building, a two-story 578,000 sq ft computer warehouse ("AUS02"), carries a reported $440 million cost.
SpaceX/Starlink's Bastrop, Texas facility expanded by more than one million square feet
SpaceX/Starlink's Bastrop, Texas facility expanded by more than one million square feet, a $280 million investment creating over 400 jobs, alongside The Boring Company's manufacturing presence in the same county.
Uptime is the constraint
A room full of energized racks changes two things about a Bastrop job. The resistance band is often set higher for the safety of the people working around live power, and the schedule stops being a detail and becomes the whole plan.
The document behind a Bastrop job
FAA-STD-019 is the one worth reading first for work like this. Lightning and surge protection, grounding, bonding and shielding for FAA facilities. It sets a floor resistance range above a typical ESD floor.
The band runs higher on purpose
FAA-STD-019 requires floor resistance between 1.0 x 106 and 1.0 x 109 ohms in rooms with energized equipment. That is above a typical manufacturing ESD floor, and the reason is personnel safety around live power rather than component protection.
Questions from Bastrop
Can you do this without taking our Bastrop room offline?
Usually, by working the space in sections around the equipment. The constraint is cure time, not application time: 24 hours before anyone walks on it at 70 F and 50 percent relative humidity[7]. Tell us how the hall is zoned and we will build the sequence backwards from your uptime requirement.
What do you need from us to price a Bastrop job?
Square footage, what is on the slab now, the resistance band your specification calls for, and the hours the space can be handed over. Four answers and we can price the actual room instead of quoting a range.
Is Bastrop inside your normal service area?
Yes. Bastrop County is covered on the regular Texas schedule, so a job here does not carry a travel premium the way a one off out of state trip would.
Sources
- 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 - FAA-STD-019, floor resistance and grounding requirements for FAA facilities
Lightning and surge protection, grounding, bonding, and shielding for FAA facilities and electronic equipment.
staticworx.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.