Five things we have put out for anyone to use. All free, none of them ask you to sign in, and nothing you type is recorded unless you deliberately send us an enquiry.
Before you sign
Twelve questions to raise before you commit to a lift maintenance agreement — term and renewal, price escalation, what is actually covered, response times, obsolescence, and who carries the risk.
Each one explains what is at stake in plain language and what a reasonable position looks like. It does not assess your contract; it tells you what to ask about.
For building owners, body corporates and facility managers
Open the checklist →Early-stage planning
A rough indication of how many passenger lifts a building of a given size might need, using broad planning bands for offices, apartments and hotels.
Deliberately coarse, and honest about it. Useful when you are sketching a scheme and want a sensible number to work with — not a substitute for a traffic study.
For developers, architects and owners at concept stage
Open the guide →Traffic
Our calculator, for working through an arrangement in a little more detail than the planning guide allows.
Still indicative. Where a decision turns on the numbers, a proper traffic study is a different exercise, and we would rather do that properly than have you rely on a calculator.
For project teams working through options
Open the calculator →Capital planning
Tell us the building — how many lifts, how many levels, capacity, speed, where it is and what you are trying to do — and we come back with a budget range for replacing, modernising or installing it.
We do not publish lift prices, because a number without a scope behind it is the thing that ends up wrong in a budget. The page sets out every cost that sits outside a lift contract, which is where most owners get caught.
For owners, body corporates and asset managers building a capital plan
Get your range →Look inside
A 3D model of a traction lift and an escalator you can orbit, run and slow down — then a third view that puts both in one building and answers when you need a lift, a second lift, an escalator, or all three.
Built as an explainer for concept stage, when the question is still open and cheapest to get right.
For developers, architects and owners at concept and feasibility stage
Look inside →Vertical transport training. A short course for building owners, body corporates and facility managers on what your lifts need, what your contractor is responsible for, and how to read what you are being sent. In development.
If either of those would be useful to you, tell us and we will let you know when it opens.
The Lift Consultancy is independent. We do not sell, install or maintain lifts, and we take no commission from anyone who does. Our only interest is that the owner of a building understands what they are being asked to sign and what their equipment actually needs.
All of them stop well short of the work we are engaged to do, and that is deliberate. They are here to help you ask better questions — and to make it obvious when a question needs a proper answer rather than a rule of thumb.
If you get to that point, tell us what is happening. An initial conversation costs nothing, and if you do not need a consultant we will say so.