Vertical Transportation Capability Statement
Our mission is to work with you to provide vertical transportation solutions to meet your individual needs. Through consultation we will develop an understanding of your success criteria for the lifts and escalators of your project, and help turn these into solutions. 2
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About Vertical Transportation Cundall’s team of international lift consultants and escalator consultants provide full lift and escalator vertical transportation design services in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Far East and Australia.
Planning End of Life
We offer independent impartial advice on all aspects of lifts and escalators:
Design
Maintenance Condition Surveys New Construction
Refurbish & Renew
Refurbishments or Replacement Authorising Engineering (Lifts)
Construction
Lift Performance Improvement
Our Services New Construction Design:
ift and escalator traffic analysis L Architectural planning BREEAM Specification
Procurement:
Supplier selection Tender review Technical analysis Tender interview/ Works inspection
Construction:
Design monitoring Detailed design development Installation progress monitoring Final inspections Soft landing
Operate & Maintain
Maintain:
aintenance contract advice/ bespoke arrangements M Supplier selection Performance management Performance assessment Contractor audit
Review: Surveys
Condition & performance Reliability Building purchase / Sale Dilapidation
C APEX planning L ease support (comparison of current performance versus alternative buildings)
Refurbishment/ Replacement:
esign & Specification D Tender & Procurement Contract administration Construction monitoring
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Condition Surveys Whatever the reason you need to undertake an escalator or lift survey or technical inspection, we can help. Prior to undertaking any survey we seek to understand your requirements in detail, then customise our survey and report to over achieve your expectations. Basic Condition Survey
Dilapidation Survey
Summarising general technical data on lift and escalator units advising on:
A tenant may be contractually obliged to keep the buildings plant, including lifts “in full working order” when they vacate a building. Surveying on behalf of the landlord, our team can provide expert advice on whether the equipment has been maintained, repaired and kept in a condition recommended by the manufacturer. Where proof exists that insufficient care and/or misuse has resulted in dilapidation, costs for restoring the equipment to an acceptable condition can be quantified.
Overall equipment condition Quality of maintenance Review for compliance with current regulatory codes and standards and health and safety requirements. Reporting on our findings, we provide projective costs in the immediate, medium and long-term time frames; and advise if requirements for repairs, upgrades, modernisation or replacement are necessary. We can also provide bespoke reports to suit the specific needs of the project. For larger portfolios, a summary report may be appropriate, e.g. for ease of use within their organisation alongside individual detailed reports. Acquisition Survey When a client is considering purchasing a building, we can assess the current condition of the vertical transportation equipment, evaluate potential significant capital expenditure risks and predict the remaining serviceable life of the equipment to assist with financial planning.
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Asset Capture We can support our clients in the development of vertical transportation asset registers to varying levels of detail. This may take a basic form of quantity and type of installation or offer more detail by reviewing individual subcomponents installed across the client’s portfolio. Investment Planning and Prioritisation To support client’s long term budgeting, we can assist with developing asset investment plans and multiple year budgets for your lift and escalator portfolio. Typically, this type of study would be carried out in association with several lift or escalator condition surveys, or a portfolio asset survey.
Refurbishment and Replacement From minor modifications to address performance or reliability issues, through aesthetic upgrades, complete refurbishment, replacement or even adding extra floors to an existing lift – our team of lift and escalator experts can help.
Refurbishments
Extend Life and Enhance Safety
Refurbishments can successfully revive ageing lift and escalator equipment, extending their lifespan and offering significant savings over complete equipment replacement. With a detailed knowledge of existing equipment and new technologies available, our team can advise how best to extend the life of existing systems. The team carefully select the components to be replaced, to ensure they work in harmony with retained sections.
As lift equipment wears, ages and becomes obsolete, the reliability suffers and downtime becomes noticeable. Refurbishment and replacement of only the parts that are worn allows the working life of a lift to be extended by many years.
Our team has extensive experience in all areas of this specialist field from major refurbishment to groups of lifts in prestige high-demand environments, to smaller life-extending and code-compliance refurbishments completed for local authorities. Improve Performance Dated technology often means limited performance and influences. With careful selection and replacement of key components, the performance can be revived and improved without the need for complete equipment replacement.
It is also an opportunity to update the equipment to comply with current legislation and safety best practice. This ensures that the equipment not only performs better, but that user accidents are reduced, minimising the potential for litigation. Complete Replacement In some cases, complete removal and replacement of the lift may be more cost-effective than refurbishment. In addition, this could provide additional benefits such as changing from manual to automatic door arrangement, or to install a machine-room-less lift and re-use the machine room for another purpose. We can advise on the suitability of your lift for this approach, and any associated considerations.
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New Construction Let our expert vertical transportation consultants help design the lift and escalator requirements for your new building to assist in delivering your vision for the building.
Vertical transportation often takes up a large proportion of the core space in a building. Operational success of a building is dependent on the effective transportation of both people and goods between levels and is a vital aspect of building design that requires expert consideration at an early stage. The commercial viability of a project is often associated with a balance between the population the lifts can transport, versus the cost and space that the lifts absorb. Cundall’s Vertical Transportation team uses the latest independently written traffic analysis software, together with our wealth of experience in the field to provide impartial, expert advice on the size, speed and number of lifts and escalator that a building requires. This helps to ensure that a building meets the required legislation and standards, current best practice, and that the building’s vertical transportation operates at maximum efficiency. Our thorough knowledge of advancements in technology and available equipment enables us to carefully assess the advantages and implications of all available systems, allowing the team to recommend solutions that are best suited to the building’s specific needs. With an open and innovative attitude to design, we work closely with the design team and other stakeholders to develop a bespoke solution that satisfies, and aims to exceed, key performance criteria.
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Vertical transportation should blend seamlessly into the building. Cundall aims to ensure the system works in harmony with the building control systems, fire strategy, evacuation strategy and building security. We have a detailed knowledge and professional experience in the design and application of the full range of lifts and escalator equipment including: High-rise lift groups in offices, hotels and educational facilities Scenic lifts in offices and residential developments delivering eye-catching feature aesthetics Destination control system and integration with building operations Vehicle lifts in functional and exclusive glass designs Goods and special purpose lifts Escalators for the transport of high volumes over a short rise Horizontal and inclined walkways Platform lifts where space or budget precludes traditional lifts.
Maintenance Management Our lift consultants and escalator consultants can provide you with regular or ad-hoc support to assist with the management of your lift and escalator asset base, maintenance contractors, and regulatory compliance.
With over 400 lift and escalator maintenance companies within the UK, it can be a challenge to differentiate between the offerings of different maintenance providers. While lift and escalator reliability is often key to the efficient operation of a building, it can be difficult for a building manager to assess if the maintenance being provided is sufficient to the equipment’s needs, or if lack of maintenance is a reason for any equipment reliability issues.
This includes: Portfolio surveys and production of an Asset Register Life cycle assessment and cost estimates Condition surveys Legislation compliance surveys and recommendations Troubleshooting Maintenance quality audits
As a very specialist field, our lift and escalator consultants can assist you in keeping abreast of relevant legislation, best practice and innovations.
Maintenance contract review and re-tender support Maintenance management and tenant liaison.
Maintenance, breakdown and repair
Specialist Surveys
Cundall’s Vertical Transportation team can provide independent advice and assistance to those responsible for any building or property portfolio. Using our considerable industry knowledge and practical experience, we can maximise efficiency and equipment longevity while minimising costs.
Cundall is also able to carry out various independent surveys including: Dilapidation surveys and reports ‘Due Diligence’ surveys and reports Accident or incident investigation Insurance assessments Complaint investigation Accessibility survey and reports to EN81-70 (Accessibility to lifts for persons) Surveys and reports according to the guidelines laid out in EN81-80 (Improvement of safety of existing lifts).
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Performance Improvement of Existing Lifts Our experienced team of lift consultants have the knowledge and experience to offer a comprehensive service in all areas including the performance assessment and improvement of lifts within existing buildings. Performance Measurement Using the latest technology, our highly skilled lift consultants can carry out performance measurement of existing lifts recording the following performance data: Normal operating speed Door opening and closing times Door pre-opening time Acceleration and deceleration rates Jerk rates Dwell timings Start and levelling delay Shut-down and restart timings Performance Assessment The measured performance data is used to build a lift traffic analysis simulation of the lift system. This model allows for the buildings lift performance to be assessed in a range of different scenarios such as:
As little as half a second deterioration from original design parameters can have significant effect on the overall lift system performance and will multiply exponentially when there are a number of lifts in a group system. Performance Improvement Whilst performance measurement and assessment are important in understanding the current lift performance of a building, and the theoretical possibilities, we find that clients want practical solutions to achieve their aims. After developing an in-depth understanding of the clients aims for the lift system performance, we will assess and propose potential options to improve the lift system performance to achieve the clients aims. Coupled with this is the client’s budgetary constraints which are taken into consideration to optimise the performance improvement proposal to maximise capital expenditure. Potential improvement works could be: Tuning / adjustment of the existing equipment Modification or replacement of key performance affecting components
Current building population
Lift Refurbishment
Change in building or individual floor populations
Lift Replacement
Change in building / floor population density
Cundall’s lift and escalator consultants have demonstrated on multiple occasions that this expenditure is not necessary as further explained in the following case study.
Change of tenant floors Change in lift usage patterns due to changes in building facilities such as the addition of in-house restaurants
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Assessment against current market expectations such as the British Council for Offices (BCO) recommendations
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Performance Improvement Case Study Office building, London, UK After purchasing the building the client identified that the lift performance was less than ideal and likely to limit the marketability of the building. Without a budget to replace or modernise the lifts Cundall Vertical Transportation completed a performance measurement and assessment study. As the existing equipment had been refurbished some years earlier with a modern control system and VVVF drive Cundall were able to identify discrepancies between the actual fields recorded and the optimum settings available for the installed equipment. We identified that the lifts had the capacity to be re-tuned and adjusted to provide more optimum settings without the need for costly replacement of components.
Following our re-analysis, the results indicate that the retuned lifts would meet BCO guidelines and provide a good level of service as shown in the table below. Original
After Adjustment
Up Peak
287 s
30 s
Lunch Peak
173 s
37 s
With an investment of less than ÂŁ10k to complete the adjustments identified by Cundall the client has achieved a BCO compliant lift system without the need for capital expenditure. This building occupies eight levels utilising two lifts, major disruption within the building and a capital investment saving in excess of ÂŁ100K was achieved by not upgrading the existing lift equipment.
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Authorising Engineer (Lifts) HTM 08-02 Cundall’s vertical transportation team are highly competent professional lift consultants with lengthy service to the lift and escalator industry. With Authorised Person accreditation, Chartered Engineers and extensive knowledge of lift industry standards and practices Cundall can provide Authorising Engineer (Lifts) services as per HTM 08-02.
Planning, Design and Specification of Equipment
Under Health Technical Memorandum 00 (HTM 00) the Designated Person (Lifts) has the duty to ensure the appointment of the Authorising Engineer (Lifts) and the Dutyholder.
Acting as Authorising Engineer, witness the commissioning process for completed new or modernised lifts to assess compliance with the employers requirements and HTM guidance, standard of workmanship and completeness of the technical file.
Specific HTM defined services available from Cundall lift consultants:
Other associated services of relevance:
Maintenance Audits
Maintenance contractor monitoring and management
Lift installations in healthcare buildings should have yearly maintenance audits carried out by the Authorising Engineer or other third party. This includes an assessment of the maintenance provision, performance and general appearance of the lifts, and identification of health and safety needs.
BREEAM ENE06 assessments.
Appointment of Authorised Person (Lifts) Acting as Authorising Engineer, assess and make recommendations for the appointment of the Authorised Person (Lifts), ensuring that the AP has the required level of competency and understanding necessary to fulfil the role.
Our team can assist with the planning and design of vertical transportation in new developments to ensure a system suitable for application in a healthcare environment. A full scope of services can be provided from concept design thought to witness testing of the complete installations. For existing sites, we can also oversee design and specification of modernisation works to ensure lift performance and safety standards are maintained or enhanced. Lift (Witness) Testing
Safety Assessments
HTM Lift Role Definitions Designated Person (Lifts) – an individual appointed by a healthcare organisation (a board member or person with responsibilities to the board) who has overall authority and responsibility for lifts and their safe operation. Authorising Engineer (Lifts) – an independent professional adviser to the healthcare organisation with appropriate experience Dutyholder – an individual legally responsible for ensuring that the lift is safe to use and that it is thoroughly examined
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Our Team Our team has extensive experience of delivering a wide range of lift consultancy and escalator consultancy services across all sectors in the UK and around the world. As an international multi-disciplinary consultancy, Cundall is helping to transform communities globally. We take our responsibility to minimise the environmental impact of everything we do very seriously. That means integrating environmental considerations into our solutions to encompass everything from transport and energy use, to how people will ultimately use buildings, so that positive links with the community are developed. Our fresh approach to design produces award-winning buildings that embody sustainability and innovative thinking. Throughout our business, Cundall has a commitment to excellence. This is demonstrated by our expertise in delivering world-class sustainable solutions while maintaining strong links with local communities. Our philosophy is that each project we work on should be better for our involvement. Cundall’s engineering consultancy services cover the entire lifecycle of any building project. Clients find our ‘total solutions’ approach saves them time, money, effort and creates successful projects.
Graham Barker Global Director of Vertical Transportation +44 (0)1619147769 07803 518 282 g.barker@cundall.com
Wayne Oliver Principal Vertical Transportation Consultant Lead, South, UK +442074381675 w.oliver@cundall.com
Bob Hall Principal Vertical Transportation Consultant Lead, Central, UK +441212622747 b.hall@cundall.com
Don’t hesitate to contact our office leads to discuss your project requirements.
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About Cundall
Cundall projects Cundall offices Adelaide Belfast Birmingham Brisbane Bucharest Denmark Doha Dubai Dublin Edinburgh Hong Kong London Madrid Manchester Melbourne Newcastle
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Associated offices Oman Saudi Arabia
We are an international multi-disciplinary consultancy, operating from 25 locations across the globe. With sustainability at the heart of everything we do, our team of engineers delivers innovative, sustainable design solutions to address the project’s whole life cycle.
We expect our engineers to consider the implications of their design for every project as a whole, as well as commenting on wider environmental issues across disciplines. We routinely design to LEED, BREEAM and Green Star standards, and our approach is always to look for those wider implications. This goes beyond simply meeting the requirements for benchmarking credits, while also acknowledging that these are important as a minimum requirement. We are also the world’s first consultancy to be formally endorsed as a One Planet Company by sustainability charity Bioregional.
Our mission is to play a key role in making buildings more energy-efficient, sustainable and cost-effective to operate. Every project is an opportunity to make a positive difference and challenge ourselves to develop solutions tailored to our clients’ requirements. We achieve this by listening, collaborating and using our local and global expertise. Whether we are focused on cost, programme or reduction in environmental impact, we look for options that will bring client benefit. We encourage innovation at every turn, but understand this shouldn’t come at the expense of functionality.
A priority of all our projects is building strong relationships with our client and design team, based on open communication and Partner involvement throughout. Because of this, the vast majority of our work is repeat business. This produces better project outcomes, as everyone involved has a clear understanding of roles and responsibilities. These close relationships foster easy communication and also bring ownership of the entire project, which helps forge a one-team culture to review pre-conceived ideas, share risk and overcome challenges. Crucially, it also makes projects more enjoyable for everyone working on them. Aside from our high level of repeat business, our leadership skills are demonstrated by the awards we have won for our performance, including the Leadership and People Development Award at the National Constructing Excellence Awards. Other recent awards include Building of Year at the AJ100 Awards 2018; CIBSE Yorkshire Commercial and Industrial Project of the Year 2018; and Large Project - Most Innovative Project at the IStructE Structural Awards 2018.
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Core services
Building services engineering
Civil engineering
We offer an end-to-end service, extending from initial planning to construction fit-out, plus lifetime facilities management.
Civil engineering is one of our core services and covers all sectors of the construction industry. We help to create, improve and protect the environment in which we live. We provide facilities for day-to-day life, and for transport and industry to function effectively.
Our mission is to help design sustainable buildings which are more energy efficient and cost-effective to operate. Integration with our in-house civil and structural engineering and specialist teams enables us to devise the best possible solutions to ensure our clients’ buildings are holistic, sustainable and futureproof. Our approach is focused on offering best value by: analysing client needs, considering possible design options and delivering the most appropriate solution for location, development and budget.
We work closely with project teams and stakeholders to ensure project deliverables and goals are exceeded, while also providing sustainable solutions.
Structural engineering
Sustainability
We provide structural engineering design services with our renowned analytical creativity and ingenuity. As a result, we have a high level of repeat clients. To deliver maximum value to our clients, we aim to be involved in projects from the very outset, which allows us to contribute to the development of fully integrated solutions.
We are positioned at the forefront of sustainability in the built environment. This is because we take a refreshingly positive approach to engineering design, fostering collaboration and creativity. We are driven by the consideration of people.
This creates the greatest benefit and minimises the risk to budget and programme. Our approach is to use 3D modelling and parametric software to assist with integration on all our projects.
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We help each client identify both the constraints placed on development by regulatory requirements and site conditions and the opportunities that can be created through practical and innovative design.
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We know going green and commercial pragmatism can happily co-exist, and use this knowledge on all our projects. We provide a service to suit all aspirations, as we are familiar with the latest energy and environmental legislation, green ratings and delivering zero carbon buildings.
Specialist services
Acoustics
Air quality
Building automation
Building Information Management (BIM)
Building Performance Services (BPS)
CDM consultancy
Fire engineering
Geotechnical engineering
Health and wellbeing
IT and audio visual (AV)
Lighting design
Planning consultancy
Security consultancy
Transportation
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For more information please contact: Graham Barker, Vertical Transportation Director +44 (0)161 914 7769 07803 518 282
g.barker@cundall.com www.cundall.com Asia Australia Europe MENA UK & Ireland