The Australian National Construction Review

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ubic Access Floors, established in July 2009, is an Australian distributor, supplier and installer for Tate Access Floors, the US-based company that is the biggest manufacturer of raised flooring products in the world.

any flooring product on the market. Cubic Access Floors’ managing director Rob Migliorino has been instrumental in bringing this product to Australia and Cubic Access Floors is now proud to be supplying it to local architects and builders.

Cubic Access Floors supplies and installs raised access floor systems – ‘false floors’ that allow services such as HVAC, electrical power, voice and data cabling and other utilities to be run along the concrete slab of the floor. “They work in 600x600 tiles in a modular grid system,” explains Cubic’s Andre Neradovsky.

Cubic Access Floors are subscribers to the National Building Specification (NATSPEC), the comprehensive national specification system endorsed by government and professional bodies. NATSPEC is for all building structures, with specialist packages for architects, interior designers, landscape architects, structural engineers, service engineers and domestic owners.

There are many and varied benefits of raised access flooring. It promotes enhanced indoor environmental quality through superior IAQ, ventilation effectiveness and improved acoustics; allows maximum occupant thermal comfort; and easily adapts to technological and organisational changes over the building’s life cycle at low cost. Sustainable advantages include a reduced amount of materials required to deliver HVAC, electrical and data services to the occupants; energy efficiency through greater economiser operation and less fan energy; and reduced waste during reconfiguration by reusing wires, cables, diffusers and PosiTile carpet. Tate has recently developed a wood core flooring product, manufactured in Canada, that has the highest recycled content of 44

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Access flooring and underfloor service distribution offer a more sustainable and cost-effective solution for the design and construction of commercial buildings. For more information, contact Cubic Access Floors.

Cubic Access Floors Unit 4/4 Avenue of Americas Newington NSW 2127 contact: Andre Neradovsky t. 1800 202 490 f. 1300 056 369 m. 0422 037 698 e. andre@cubicgroup.biz AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION REVIEW


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