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.
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.
A lift maintenance invoice is usually one line and a number. How to check the escalation clause, separate routine work from repairs, test the exclusions behind extra charges, and reconcile it all to the service records.
For an apartment building the duty for the safe operation of the lifts sits with the owners corporation, not the maintenance contractor. What the agreement covers, what it does not, and the four documents a committee should be able to produce.