Allegheny County, Parkway East
ESD Flooring in Monroeville
Static control floors for Monroeville operations, built to the band your process requires rather than to a colour chart.
What it is
Why Monroeville needs it
Monroeville runs on precision engineering, and precision work has a habit of arriving with paperwork. When a floor is inside a documented control program, it stops being a finish and becomes a piece of equipment that has to produce a reading on demand.
The part that catches people is that hitting the resistance number is no longer enough on its own. Since the 2014 revision of ANSI/ESD S20.20 there is a walking test as well, and a floor can measure perfectly and still put a person over 100 volts.
Allegheny County
Monroeville
Conductive and static dissipative systems, grounded into building ground and specified against ANSI/ESD S20.20.
Where we work
The Monroeville corridor
We cover the Parkway East and Business Route 22 corridor, the Monroeville and Penn Center business parks, and the engineering facilities off Mosside Boulevard.
naval propulsion and nuclear engineering
precision assembly
instrumentation and test
Straight out the Parkway East, so we can be on your slab and back before the shift changes.
The standard
The two bands the standard defines
Measured to ANSI/ESD STM7.1. Which one you need is set by what you build, never by preference.
Conductive
2.5 x 10⁴ to 1.0 x 10⁶ ohms
Charge has to leave the floor fast and the operation handles parts that fail at low voltage. Common in electronics assembly and munitions or energetics work.
Static dissipative
greater than 1.0 x 10⁶ to less than 1.0 x 10⁹ ohms
Charge has to bleed off in a controlled way rather than dump. The usual choice where people work around live equipment and a hard path to ground is a shock risk.
The whole system
less than 1.0 x 10⁹ ohms
Floor, footwear and person together to ANSI/ESD STM97.1, plus a walking test under less than 100 volts peak to ANSI/ESD STM97.2.
Before anybody quotes
What we look at first on a floor like yours
Which band the process actually requires
Conductive is 2.5 x 10 to the fourth up to 1.0 x 10 to the sixth ohms. Static dissipative is above that and below 1.0 x 10 to the ninth. Which one you need is set by what you build and by how close your people work to live equipment, never by a preference.
The walking test, not just the floor test
ANSI/ESD STM97.1 measures floor, footwear and person as one system, and STM97.2 measures peak body voltage while somebody walks on it. Two different tests. Passing one does not mean passing the other, and the footwear is part of the answer.
Where building ground actually is
A copper grounding strip runs into the conductive layer and ties to building ground, typically one connection point per 1,000 square feet. Without it the floor is a coating with carbon in it and it will not test.
By name
Every standard on this page
Nothing here is our own designation. Look any of them up before you talk to anybody.
ANSI/ESD S20.20
The ESD control program standard an audited facility is held to.
ANSI/ESD STM7.1
How the resistance of the floor itself gets measured.
ANSI/ESD STM97.1
How the floor, the footwear and the person get measured as one system.
ANSI/ESD STM97.2
The walking test. Peak body voltage a person generates on that system.
ASTM D257
The general DC resistance method the flooring methods descend from.
NFPA 77
Recommended practice on static electricity where ignition is the risk, not part damage.
Static control across the metro
ESD flooring nearby
Same standard, different floor. Pick the one closest to your operation.
FAQ
Static control questions
The six that come up once you have a slab and a deadline. The full twenty five, on resistance, grounding and test method, are on the Pittsburgh page.
Cost is driven by four things: square footage, how much existing coating has to come off, whether the slab needs moisture mitigation, and which band you have to hit. A grind-and-coat over sound concrete and a full mitigation build on a wet slab are different projects. We quote after we have seen the slab and know the band, not before.
Most plant floors run 3 to 5 days from grind to return to service, driven by square footage, how much coating has to come off first, and cure time between coats. A phased install keeps part of the floor working while the rest goes down.
Yes, in phases, nights and weekends. Most plants cannot give up a whole floor at once, so the floor gets sectioned and the grounding network gets tied together as the sections join.
Yes. Impact and abrasion are a separate spec from resistance, handled with a thicker build or a urethane cement body under the conductive topcoat. Ask for both numbers, because a floor can be compliant and still be too soft for your traffic.
Yes, across the Pittsburgh metro including Cranberry Township, Robinson Township, Moon Township, Monroeville, Warrendale, North Strabane Township and the surrounding Butler, Allegheny, Washington and Beaver county corridors.
Four things: square footage, the band you have to hit (conductive or dissipative, and whether an audit sets it), what is on the slab now, and your traffic. If you do not know the band, that is a normal place to start and it is worth settling before anyone quotes you.
Read all twenty five static control answers on the Pittsburgh page, including resistance bands, grounding and test method.
Start here
Tell us about the slab
Square footage, the band you have to hit, what is on the slab now, and your traffic. If you do not know the band, that is a normal place to start.
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