Process

Contact

You contact us to discuss your requirements. We discuss a scope of works and (hopefully) agree to provide tailored services specific to your project requirements. This scope could entail a full service from strategic planning to completion, or it may just be a few hours of advice; we’re flexible enough to cater for any project.

Planning

We review your outline architectural design and evaluate the VT provision at your scheme. We use our experience in your relevant sector, best practice guidance, brand / client requirements and industry benchmarks to report on the exact lift provision required. If you have bespoke lifting requirements, we can draft / discuss these with you at this stage. We can advise on lift well sizes, pit depths and overruns for every configuration of lift.

Passenger Traffic Analysis

We subject our initial recommendations to intense scrutiny with the use of the most established and trusted lift simulation software available. Our 50+ years in the construction industry gives us a unique insight into building use; this enables us to build custom traffic profiles for the most complex of buildings which closely emulate real-world conditions.

Reporting

We compile the outcomes of the lift planning and simulation process into a concise technical report. This can have multiple uses: informative; for compliance review; for employers’ requirements; to record brand derogations; and so on. Whatever the use, it will be a custom fitted document.

Specification

We build a detailed technical specification for your new installation or modernisation works, capturing all of your project / client / stakeholder requirements. This package of works is designed to be released to the market for tender.

Tender Action

We use our relationship with the supply and installation market to acquire rapid tender pricing for your equipment. We check these tenders for specification compliance for a true 'apples with apples' comparison, de-risking your procurement approach and ensuring best value.

Interview and Appointment

We interview potential suppliers with the most competitive pricing to rubber stamp compliance. We support your commercial team by discussing terms, delivery, approvals and attendances.

Approvals and Manufacture

We check and approve your appointed suppliers’ technical / builders work drawings to release the manufacture of your equipment. The internal car finishes of passenger lifts are confirmed for manufacture at this point; we support you / your designers in administering this correctly.

Construction

If you need us to, we can provide installation correctness checking of the ongoing installation works.

Completion

We inspect the completed works, checking that they are fully technically compliant. We issue a defects list to the contractor recording aspects of the installation which require further attention. We will run accelerometer-based testing of the completed unit to ensure you’re getting what you paid for.