Renovation Buildings

Though often not considered as such, one of the most sustainable or “green” decisions that can be made with regard to building is to avoid new construction in the first place. Retaining existing building stock and rejuvenating it through renovation, restoration, preservation, and/or expansion equates to land conservation. Therefore, it has become common in the “green” world for office buildings to be built with raised access floors to more effectively allow for the “churn” endemic to this sector. Compared with the more conventional approach whereby buildings are “gutted” and the material is sent to the landfill, this approach yields significant bottom-line savings both economically and ecologically. To view more Tate Courthouse projects, click here.

A Sustainable Environment

Bick Group, a design-build firm specializing in mission critical facilities and intelligent buildings converted a 49,000 square feet former printing company building into its new headquarters. Bick Group transformed what was part open-warehouse print shop, part office space into a into a state-of-the-art, showcase i-Building®, combining a flexible, user-friendly building infrastructure with intelligent, well-integrated building controls and management systems. As a Tate Access Floors dealer, Bick Group understood that a key component in its flexible modular infrastructure was a Tate access floor system combined with Tate's underfloor service distribution system.