Raised access floor projects in Bangkok: ANBS case studies

Detailed write-ups of six projects. For every published project, see the full project list (all references). Company background: the Rhino and ANBS story.

Detailed case studies (6 projects)

Citibank HQ, Bangkok: 27,000 m²UOB, Bangkok: two towers, 40,300 m²G Tower, Bangkok: 21,000 m² RhinoROCMajor Cineplex: 40,000 m² across ThailandStandard Chartered: Bangkok HQ and regional officesHSBC HQ, Bangkok: 11,000 m², 1999

More from the portfolio

• PTT Data Center, Bangkok: 5,000 m².
• SET data centre at North Park, Bangkok: the whole data centre on RhinoROC, 2017.
• Deutsche Bank HQ, Bangkok: 1,800 m², one of ANBS's most recent jobs.
• SCB Park, Ratchadapisek Road, Bangkok: 11,200 m², 2000.
• IRPC Data Center, Rayong: 4,000 m².
• MRT Orange Line, Bangkok: 2,200 m².
• Virgin Active: ANBS fits out every Virgin Active club in Thailand, including 1,500 m² in Bangkok.
• California Fitness: many years of raised-floor work for the chain.
• Major Cineplex, beyond the screens: raised floors for the group's ice-skating rink and bowling alleys.
• Universities: lecture halls in Thailand; abroad, Rhino has floored the University of Hong Kong (3,000 m²) and PAAET in Kuwait (90,000 m²).

Offices, banks, server rooms and control rooms are where most of our work is. We have also put raised floors into cinemas, gyms, lecture halls and transport projects, wherever power, data or air has to run under people's feet.

About ANBS and Rhino

Asia Net Building Services (ANBS) was founded in Bangkok in 1997 by Chanisorn "Tok" Ounayakovit and his business partner, the late Wes Carroll. The RHINO® trademark followed in 2001. From 2006 Rhino expanded into China, adding a RhinoEU® calcium sulphate line in 2007 and launching the RhinoROC® steel panel from a new plant in 2010. Tok runs the China factory with his partner Jackie Dai, and ANBS remains his company in Thailand.

RhinoROC is a resistance-welded 600 × 600 mm steel panel with a cementitious core, built on a 64-dome bottom shell with cross-beams and 140 resistance welds. In Thailand ANBS supplies ROC100 (3.56 kN concentrated load), ROC200 (4.45 kN) and ROC300 (5.56 kN). Each comes bare or with a factory finish such as Meiah® anti-static HPL (EN 438 Class W2), DecorLux® vinyl or Bluetec® ESD conductive vinyl.

RhinoROC has been load-tested by Intertek to CISCA 2007 procedures, and Intertek has also tested it to ASTM E84 and ASTM E136 and for VOC emissions (2016). RhinoEU has system test reports to PSA MOB PF2 PS/SPU from SIRIM QAS, and BS 476 Part 4, Part 6 and Part 7 fire test reports from TÜV SÜD PSB. Rhino panels have been tested by international laboratories: Intertek (US), SGS (Germany, for the calcium sulphate panels), TÜV, SIRIM QAS International (Malaysia) and ITCO (Kuwait, for the GCC states). In Thailand, they have also been tested by AIT (Asian Institute of Technology) and Kasetsart University.