Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar LandHarris County
Katy static control floors, built to ANSI/ESD S20.20
Instrument rooms, calibration space and engineering labs carry static sensitive work in rooms that look nothing like a factory, which is why the requirement in Katy often arrives late and unbudgeted. The record here shows energy engineering corridor, oil and gas instrumentation/engineering.
Katy, and what gets built here
Katy is on the list for the engineering and instrumentation work measured in Harris County, each entry carrying its source.
Energy Recovery is building a new Commercial Development Center in Katy
Energy Recovery is building a new Commercial Development Center in Katy, Texas as the central office for its Oil & Gas segment's engineering, design, and field teams.
Katy sits inside the Houston Energy Corridor footprint, home to BP America
Katy sits inside the Houston Energy Corridor footprint, home to BP America, Shell Exploration and Production, and Wood's engineering and research operations.
Instrument rooms, not production floors
A Katy instrument room rarely has an ESD coordinator, so the requirement usually surfaces as an audit finding or a customer question rather than as a plan.
The document behind a Katy job
ANSI/ESD STM7.1-2020 is the one worth reading first for work like this. The test method for qualifying a floor material before installation and for accepting and monitoring it afterwards.
Printed two ways, same document
You will see this cited as STM7.1 and as S7.1, including on manufacturer data sheets. Many report templates still print S7.1. They refer to the same floor resistive characterization method.
Questions from Katy
Can an existing Katy floor be tested rather than replaced?
Do you handle the whole job in Katy or just the coating?
The whole job: removing what is down, preparing the slab, the grounding network, the system itself and the cure schedule around your operation. Prep and grounding are where most of the work is. How it runs.
What do you need from us to price a Katy 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.
Sources
- ANSI/ESD STM7.1-2020, floor resistance test method for static control flooring
Floor systems resistive characterization: the test method for qualifying floor materials before installation and for accepting and monitoring them after installation.
www.esda.org - ANSI/ESD STM97.1-2025, person plus footwear plus floor system resistance test
System resistance measurement of a person, footwear, and floor tested together; this is the test behind S20.20's under-1.0 x 109 ohm system ceiling.
webstore.ansi.org - ESD flooring cost per square foot installed, from 250+ commercial project bids
Cited here for the published Texas/national ESD flooring market price range, derived from real bid data on 250+ commercial ESD projects.
craftsmanconcretefloors.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.