system to highlight the simplicity with which the inventive elevated flooring structure may be installed and the convenience with which the raised flooring structure may be re arranged to accommodate the substitution and addition of units corresponding methods for accomplishing these tasks are hereinafter set forth the following steps are involved in initially installating the raised flooring structure in the computer site area 1 attaching four horizontally oriented channel beams 27 to the four vertically oriented channel beams 25 comprising the base of each hardware unit 2 arranging the hardware units in proper relationship to one another on the permanent flooring 24 3 channeling and routing the interconnections 33 between the hardware units and making the necessary connections with external power and cooling sources the interconnections 33 being appropriately fed through the vertically oriented slots 31 and apertures 39 formed in the beams 27 and disposed on the permanent flooring 24 4 fastening four interface members 35 to the exposed areas of the channel beams 25 and 27 of each hardware unit being certain that the interconnections fed through the apertures 39 are properly disposed within the semi cylindrical grooves 41 thereof and certain also that each interface member 35 is positionably secured by its corresponding retaining strip 37 5 filling the space between the hardware units with a plurality of raised panels 21 such that a modular platform 19 is formed throughout the.