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Thanks for the replies! 

Patricia, can you elaborate - if you have it in the temporary exhibitions
gallery, but you can't drive a forklift over it, would you still recommend
it to a new museum?  We're trying to figure out if it's worth the extra
money.  As you pointed out it would be great for flexibility, especially for
water exhibits.

Barbara Punt 

Punt Consulting 

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Telephone (310) 937-3366 

Fax (815) 377-3633 

Barbara @puntconsulting.com 

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When in doubt ... Punt! 


-----Original Message----- 
From: Patricia Verheyden [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 10:21 AM 
Subject: Re: Question about raised floor systems 

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we have a raised floor on our lower level  with electricity, data,
compressed air and water under it. 
it is very convenient , especially in our area for temporary exhibitions. 

we have ca 15 cm empty space under the raised wooden tiles, which means that
if you need to get a cable from a to b you sometimes have to lift a lot of
tiles if I could do it again I would seriously consider having one meter
technical space under the raised floor as I have seen in other  places (they
then also have the climatisation in the raised floor)

we don't have a raised floor on the upper level and in our water area, I
would have preferred to have a raised floor also in the water area, that
would be easier for drainage

the raised floor has one big drawback: there is a max weight for points, for
moving objects, for totall mass of exhibits: we cannot drive with a forklift
into the exhibition area and when we need to use a level worker we have to
look for a light model and use wooden boards to distribute the weight

kind regards, 

Patricia 

Patricia Verheyden 
Director of exhibits 
Technopolis, the Flemish science center 
Technologielaan, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium tel. + 32 15 34 20 20; fax + 32 15
34 20 10 
mailto:[log in to unmask]     http://www.technopolis.be 





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