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 Vertical transportation 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, Planning Europe, Middle East, Far East and Australia. End of Life
We offer independent impartial advice on all aspects of lifts and escalators: Design
Maintenance Condition Surveys Refurbish New Construction & Renew Refurbishments or Replacement
Authorising Engineering (Lifts) Construction
Lift Performance Improvement Operate & Maintain
Our Services Maintain: Maintenance contract advice/ bespoke arrangements Supplier selection New Construction Design: Performance management Lift and escalator traffic analysis Performance assessment Architectural planning Contractor audit BREEAM Specification Review:
Surveys - Procurement: Condition & performance Supplier selection Reliability Tender review Building purchase / Sale Technical analysis Dilapidation Tender interview/ Works inspection CAPEX planning Construction: Lease support (comparison of current performance versus alternative buildings) Design monitoring Detailed design development Refurbishment/ Replacement: Installation progress monitoring Design & Specification Final inspections Tender & Procurement Soft landing Contract administration Construction monitoring
Vertical transportation 3 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 A tenant may be contractually obliged to keep the units advising on: buildings plant, including lifts “in full working order” when they vacate a building. Surveying on behalf of the Overall equipment condition landlord, our team can provide expert advice on whether Quality of maintenance the equipment has been maintained, repaired and kept in a condition recommended by the manufacturer. Where proof Review for compliance with current regulatory codes exists that insufficient care and/or misuse has resulted and standards and health and safety requirements. in dilapidation, costs for restoring the equipment to an acceptable condition can be quantified. Reporting on our findings, we provide projective costs in the immediate, medium and long-term time frames; and Asset Capture advise if requirements for repairs, upgrades, modernisation We can support our clients in the development of vertical or replacement are necessary. transportation asset registers to varying levels of detail. We can also provide bespoke reports to suit the specific This may take a basic form of quantity and type of needs of the project. For larger portfolios, a summary installation or offer more detail by reviewing individual report may be appropriate, e.g. for ease of use within their subcomponents installed across the client’s portfolio. organisation alongside individual detailed reports. Investment Planning and Prioritisation Acquisition Survey To support client’s long term budgeting, we can assist When a client is considering purchasing a building, we can with developing asset investment plans and multiple year assess the current condition of the vertical transportation budgets for your lift and escalator portfolio. Typically, this equipment, evaluate potential significant capital type of study would be carried out in association with expenditure risks and predict the remaining serviceable life several lift or escalator condition surveys, or a portfolio of the equipment to assist with financial planning. asset survey.
4 Vertical transportation 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 As lift equipment wears, ages and becomes obsolete, escalator equipment, extending their lifespan and offering the reliability suffers and downtime becomes noticeable. significant savings over complete equipment replacement. Refurbishment and replacement of only the parts that With a detailed knowledge of existing equipment and new are worn allows the working life of a lift to be extended by technologies available, our team can advise how best many years. to extend the life of existing systems. The team carefully select the components to be replaced, to ensure they work It is also an opportunity to update the equipment to comply in harmony with retained sections. with current legislation and safety best practice. This ensures that the equipment not only performs better, but Our team has extensive experience in all areas of this that user accidents are reduced, minimising the potential specialist field from major refurbishment to groups of for litigation. lifts in prestige high-demand environments, to smaller life-extending and code-compliance refurbishments Complete Replacement completed for local authorities. In some cases, complete removal and replacement of the lift may be more cost-effective than refurbishment. In Improve Performance addition, this could provide additional benefits such as Dated technology often means limited performance changing from manual to automatic door arrangement, or and influences. With careful selection and replacement to install a machine-room-less lift and re-use the machine of key components, the performance can be revived room for another purpose. and improved without the need for complete equipment replacement. We can advise on the suitability of your lift for this approach, and any associated considerations.
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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 This includes: within the UK, it can be a challenge to differentiate between the offerings of different maintenance providers. Portfolio surveys and production of an Asset Register While lift and escalator reliability is often key to the Life cycle assessment and cost estimates efficient operation of a building, it can be difficult for a building manager to assess if the maintenance being Condition surveys provided is sufficient to the equipment’s needs, or if Legislation compliance surveys and recommendations lack of maintenance is a reason for any equipment Troubleshooting reliability issues. Maintenance quality audits As a very specialist field, our lift and escalator consultants Maintenance contract review and re-tender support can assist you in keeping abreast of relevant legislation, best practice and innovations. Maintenance management and tenant liaison.
Maintenance, breakdown and repair Specialist Surveys Cundall’s Vertical Transportation team can provide Cundall is also able to carry out various independent independent advice and assistance to those responsible surveys including: for any building or property portfolio. Using our considerable industry knowledge and practical experience, Dilapidation surveys and reports we can maximise efficiency and equipment longevity while ‘Due Diligence’ surveys and reports minimising costs. 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).
Vertical transportation 7 Performance Improvement of Existing Lifts
Our experienced team of lift consultants have the Assessment against current market expectations knowledge and experience to offer a comprehensive such as the British Council for Offices (BCO) service in all areas including the performance assessment recommendations and improvement of lifts within existing buildings. As little as half a second deterioration from original design Performance Measurement parameters can have significant effect on the overall lift Using the latest technology, our highly skilled lift system performance and will multiply exponentially when consultants can carry out performance measurement of there are a number of lifts in a group system. existing lifts recording the following performance data: Performance Improvement Normal operating speed Whilst performance measurement and assessment are Door opening and closing times important in understanding the current lift performance of a building, and the theoretical possibilities, we find that Door pre-opening time clients want practical solutions to achieve their aims. Acceleration and deceleration rates After developing an in-depth understanding of the clients Jerk rates aims for the lift system performance, we will assess and propose potential options to improve the lift system Dwell timings performance to achieve the clients aims. Coupled with this Start and levelling delay is the client’s budgetary constraints which are taken into Shut-down and restart timings consideration to optimise the performance improvement proposal to maximise capital expenditure.
Performance Assessment Potential improvement works could be: The measured performance data is used to build a lift traffic analysis simulation of the lift system. This model Tuning / adjustment of the existing equipment allows for the buildings lift performance to be assessed in Modification or replacement of key performance a range of different scenarios such as: 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 Change of tenant floors on multiple occasions that this expenditure is not necessary as further explained in the following case study. Change in lift usage patterns due to changes in building facilities such as the addition of in-house restaurants
8 Vertical transportation Performance Improvement Case Study Following our re-analysis, the results indicate that the re- Office building, London, UK tuned lifts would meet BCO guidelines and provide a good level of service as shown in the table below. After purchasing the building the client identified that the lift performance was less than ideal and likely to limit the Original After Adjustment marketability of the building. Without a budget to replace or modernise the lifts Cundall Vertical Transportation completed a performance measurement and assessment Up Peak 287 s 30 s study.
As the existing equipment had been refurbished some Lunch Peak 173 s 37 s years earlier with a modern control system and VVVF drive Cundall were able to identify discrepancies between the With an investment of less than £10k to complete the actual fields recorded and the optimum settings available adjustments identified by Cundall the client has achieved for the installed equipment. a BCO compliant lift system without the need for capital We identified that the lifts had the capacity to be re-tuned expenditure. This building occupies eight levels utilising and adjusted to provide more optimum settings without two lifts, major disruption within the building and a capital the need for costly replacement of components. investment saving in excess of £100K was achieved by not upgrading the existing lift equipment.
Vertical transportation 9 Authorising Engineer (Lifts) HTM 08-02
Cundall’s vertical transportation team Planning, Design and Specification of Equipment are highly competent professional lift Our team can assist with the planning and design of consultants with lengthy service to the lift vertical transportation in new developments to ensure and escalator industry. With Authorised a system suitable for application in a healthcare environment. A full scope of services can be provided from Person accreditation, Chartered Engineers concept design thought to witness testing of the complete and extensive knowledge of lift industry installations. For existing sites, we can also oversee standards and practices Cundall can design and specification of modernisation works to ensure provide Authorising Engineer (Lifts) services lift performance and safety standards are maintained or enhanced. as per HTM 08-02. Lift (Witness) Testing
Under Health Technical Memorandum 00 (HTM 00) the Acting as Authorising Engineer, witness the Designated Person (Lifts) has the duty to ensure the commissioning process for completed new or appointment of the Authorising Engineer (Lifts) and modernised lifts to assess compliance with the the Dutyholder. employers requirements and HTM guidance, standard of workmanship and completeness of the technical file. Specific HTM defined services available from Cundall Other associated services of relevance: lift consultants: Safety Assessments
Maintenance Audits Maintenance contractor monitoring and management Lift installations in healthcare buildings should have BREEAM ENE06 assessments. yearly maintenance audits carried out by the Authorising Engineer or other third party. This includes an assessment HTM Lift Role Definitions of the maintenance provision, performance and general appearance of the lifts, and identification of health and Designated Person (Lifts) – an individual appointed by a safety needs. healthcare organisation (a board member or person with responsibilities to the board) who has overall authority and Appointment of Authorised Person (Lifts) responsibility for lifts and their safe operation. Acting as Authorising Engineer, assess and make recommendations for the appointment of the Authorised Authorising Engineer (Lifts) – an independent Person (Lifts), ensuring that the AP has the required level professional adviser to the healthcare organisation with of competency and understanding necessary to fulfil appropriate experience the role. Dutyholder – an individual legally responsible for ensuring that the lift is safe to use and that it is thoroughly examined
10 Vertical transportation Our Team
Our team has extensive experience of Graham Barker delivering a wide range of lift consultancy Global Director of Vertical and escalator consultancy services across Transportation all sectors in the UK and around the world. +44 (0)1619147769 07803 518 282 [email protected] 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 Wayne Oliver integrating environmental considerations into our solutions Principal Vertical Transportation to encompass everything from transport and energy use, Consultant Lead, South, UK to how people will ultimately use buildings, so that positive links with the community are developed. +442074381675 [email protected] 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 Bob Hall while maintaining strong links with local communities. Principal Vertical Transportation Our philosophy is that each project we work on should be Consultant Lead, Central, UK better for our involvement. +441212622747 Cundall’s engineering consultancy services cover the [email protected] entire lifecycle of any building project. Clients find our ‘total solutions’ approach saves them time, money, effort and creates successful projects. Don’t hesitate to contact our office leads to discuss your project requirements.
Vertical transportation 11 About Cundall
Cundall projects We are an international
Cundall offices multi-disciplinary consultancy, operating from 25 locations Adelaide Perth Associated Belfast Shanghai offices across the globe. With Birmingham Singapore Oman Brisbane Sweden Saudi Arabia sustainability at the heart Bucharest Sydney Denmark Warsaw of everything we do, our team Doha Wrocław Dubai of engineers delivers innovative, Dublin Edinburgh sustainable design solutions Hong Kong London to address the project’s whole Madrid Manchester life cycle. Melbourne Newcastle
12 Vertical transportation We expect our engineers to consider the implications A priority of all our projects is building strong relationships of their design for every project as a whole, as well as with our client and design team, based on open commenting on wider environmental issues across communication and Partner involvement throughout. disciplines. We routinely design to LEED, BREEAM and Because of this, the vast majority of our work is repeat Green Star standards, and our approach is always to look business. This produces better project outcomes, as for those wider implications. This goes beyond simply everyone involved has a clear understanding of roles meeting the requirements for benchmarking credits, and responsibilities. while also acknowledging that these are important as a minimum requirement. These close relationships foster easy communication and also bring ownership of the entire project, which helps We are also the world’s first consultancy to be formally forge a one-team culture to review pre-conceived ideas, endorsed as a One Planet Company by sustainability share risk and overcome challenges. Crucially, it also charity Bioregional. makes projects more enjoyable for everyone working on them. Our mission is to play a key role in making buildings more energy-efficient, Aside from our high level of repeat business, our leadership skills are demonstrated by the awards we have sustainable and cost-effective to operate. won for our performance, including the Leadership and People Development Award at the National Constructing Every project is an opportunity to make a positive Excellence Awards. Other recent awards include Building difference and challenge ourselves to develop solutions of Year at the AJ100 Awards 2018; CIBSE Yorkshire tailored to our clients’ requirements. We achieve this by Commercial and Industrial Project of the Year 2018; and listening, collaborating and using our local and global Large Project - Most Innovative Project at the IStructE expertise. Whether we are focused on cost, programme or Structural Awards 2018. 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.
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Vertical transportation 13 Core services
Building services engineering Civil engineering We offer an end-to-end service, extending from Civil engineering is one of our core services and covers initial planning to construction fit-out, plus lifetime all sectors of the construction industry. We help to create, facilities management. improve and protect the environment in which we live. We provide facilities for day-to-day life, and for transport and Our mission is to help design sustainable buildings industry to function effectively. which are more energy efficient and cost-effective to operate. Integration with our in-house civil and structural We help each client identify both the constraints placed engineering and specialist teams enables us to devise the on development by regulatory requirements and site best possible solutions to ensure our clients’ buildings are conditions and the opportunities that can be created holistic, sustainable and futureproof. through practical and innovative design.
Our approach is focused on offering best value by: We work closely with project teams and stakeholders to analysing client needs, considering possible design ensure project deliverables and goals are exceeded, while options and delivering the most appropriate solution for also providing sustainable solutions. location, development and budget.
Structural engineering Sustainability We provide structural engineering design services with our We are positioned at the forefront of sustainability renowned analytical creativity and ingenuity. As a result, in the built environment. This is because we take a we have a high level of repeat clients. To deliver maximum refreshingly positive approach to engineering design, value to our clients, we aim to be involved in projects fostering collaboration and creativity. We are driven by the from the very outset, which allows us to contribute to the consideration of people. development of fully integrated solutions. We know going green and commercial pragmatism This creates the greatest benefit and minimises the can happily co-exist, and use this knowledge on all our risk to budget and programme. Our approach is to use projects. We provide a service to suit all aspirations, as 3D modelling and parametric software to assist with we are familiar with the latest energy and environmental integration on all our projects. legislation, green ratings and delivering zero carbon buildings.
14 Vertical transportation Specialist services
Acoustics Air quality Building automation
Building Information Management Building Performance Services CDM consultancy (BIM) (BPS)
Fire engineering Geotechnical engineering Health and wellbeing
IT and audio visual (AV) Lighting design Planning consultancy
Security consultancy Transportation Vertical transportation
Vertical transportation 15 For more information please contact: Graham Barker, Vertical Transportation Director +44 (0)161 914 7769 07803 518 282 [email protected] www.cundall.com Asia Australia Europe MENA UK & Ireland