Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-19 Thread Randy Hoekstra
See: http://www.haworth.com/home/access-floors/floors/environments for non-data center raised floors -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Sometimes even if a certain practice is legal it might not be legally prudent. Civil lawsuits exist in many jurisdictions. Isn't this question best directed to your company's (or government agency's) legal department and/or Risk Officer, with their local knowledge and expertise -- or at least thei

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
eave a hole open + unsupervised. (raised floor, sewer pipes, cable ducts, etc.) That is a messy+expensive matter and the hole-cutter may be fired while the unfortunate person is recovering in the hospital. (At my work ages ago, a woman was busy carrying tapes and fall through a hole which was cut

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-18 Thread Ed Gould
hole. Result - messy lawsuits, because you may not leave a hole open + unsupervised. (raised floor, sewer pipes, cable ducts, etc.) ABout 30 years ago I put my foot through such a hole. Ruined the suit. Should have sued the company. Ed

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread retired mainframer
LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Raised Floor > > While not an operating system type question, I know someone here will be able to answer > . > > In the USA, are there requirements/rules regarding how a raised for can be utilized? I seem > to recall reading some code that specifie

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Edward Finnell
determination. The cost to run the conduit thru the vapor barriers under the raised floor was $1100! In a message dated 3/15/2016 3:30:39 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jesse1.robin...@sce.com writes: so I would not want to populate it with cubicles that could be located elsewhere. OTOH we have acres

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
The key is that this is all governed by local code. 'Local' may be municipality or county, not likely state, at least in California. Raised floor is very expensive to build, so I would not want to populate it with cubicles that could be located elsewhere. OTOH we have acres of raise

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Grinsell, Don
Assuming a rather loose definition of "raised floor" as "machine room", then the statement is correct in that only people who actually need to work there should be there. On the other hand, if the floor is simply raised to allow easy access to wiring, then it's

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 18:48:41 +, Longnecker, Dennis wrote: >In the USA, are there requirements/rules regarding how a raised for >can be utilized? I seem to recall reading some code that specified only >people who need to work on a raised for should be located on a raise

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Rugen, Len
I know my feet about froze when I had a desk on raised floor :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 1:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Raised Floor While not an

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Doug Fuerst
iates 718.921.2620 (O) 917.572.7364 (C) d...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "Longnecker, Dennis" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 15-Mar-16 2:48:41 PM Subject: Raised Floor While not an operating system type question, I know someone here will be able to answer ...

Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
on a raised floor...something about being due to the different electrical systems in a raised floor vs office space. That is, you shouldn't house someone's desk on a raised floor if they don't need to use anything in the raise