Emergency lifts are not labelled and are not required to be. In a triplex the answer is often two of them, decided by which storeys each one serves. Here is how to work it out and what to put on the wall.
Emergency lifts are not labelled and are not required to be. In a triplex the answer is often two of them, decided by which storeys each one serves. Here is how to work it out and what to put on the wall.
Sprinklers in the well are allowed, but only in a sequence that shuts the lift down first. In a building over 12 metres that collides with fire service operation, and somebody has to resolve it.
Design guidance asks for emergency evacuation of non-ambulant people without saying what that requires. Here is the answer we give, and the test that settles it in an hour.
Nobody has defined what redundancy means for lifts, so the question gets answered with a traffic study. That is the wrong question. Here is the one that matters.
Lifts, hoists, vehicle hoists and car stackers are separate things under the WHS Regulation, designed to different standards with different registration duties. Getting the classification wrong is an owner problem.
A private lift landing is a premium feature that transfers a set of maintenance, rescue and egress obligations onto the apartment owner. Here is what they are and how to deal with them.