In the sixties when the computer technology accompanied by the necessary building services entered office- and administration buildings the need of elevated floors - the so-called double floors - was created. Especially for computer centers and cable spreading rooms MERO developed special constructions which allowed to carry high loads and the installation of plenty power supply lines at the same time.
In the last few years the development in the field of floors with high load bearing capacity progressed rapidly. In the beginning the maximum point loads were 5.000 N to 7.000 N. Today system floors can carry point loads of more than 15.000 N. Beside the application in the field of data processing and building services, the elevated floor is more and more used in many other fields like research and test laboratories or clean rooms.