Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar LandBrazoria County
A Pearland floor that passes under 1.0 x 109 ohms
Assembly, rework and test benches are the rooms ANSI/ESD S20.20 was actually written for, and in Pearland that is the work sitting behind this page: medical device manufacturing.
What is actually in Pearland
Manufacturing in Brazoria County is what puts a control program on floors here. Each operation names its source and the date it was checked.
Pearland's Lower Kirby District is a growing life-sciences hub: Millar
Pearland's Lower Kirby District is a growing life-sciences hub: Millar, Inc. is building a 56,000 sq ft headquarters and manufacturing facility there, and Merit Medical and Cardiovascular Systems both run device-manufacturing operations in Pearland.
Validated space
In Pearland the floor is one control item inside a wider program that also covers footwear, wrist straps, packaging and benches, and it gets measured with the person standing on it.
The document behind a Pearland job
ESD TR53-01-22 is the one worth reading first for work like this. The technical report for compliance verification testing of ESD control items in service. The document your periodic floor recheck follows.
Qualification is day one, verification is forever
A floor is qualified once, when it goes in. TR53 is about everything after that: the recurring checks that prove the floor is still doing its job while people walk on it, clean it and wheel carts across it.
Questions from Pearland
Does our footwear policy affect whether the floor passes?
Directly. STM97.1 measures the person, footwear and floor as one circuit[3], so the same floor can pass under one shoe and fail under another. The two get specified together.
Do you handle the whole job in Pearland 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 Pearland 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 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 - 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 Association: conductive or dissipative static control flooring, how to choose
Cited here for the static-dissipative flooring resistance band per the ESD Association.
www.esda.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.