Elevators in High-Rise Buildings: Safety, Compliance & Rescue
Elevators in High-Rise Buildings: Safety, Compliance & Rescue In the earlier years (1980-1990) in most of the main cities like Mumbai, Delhi, etc., buildings used to be 5 to 10 stories. The Local fire brigades had ladders which were popularly known as TURN TABLE LADDERS OR SNORKELS which had just enough reach for firemen to […]
The future of Elevator safety – Key trends and Innovation
The future of Elevator Safety – Key trends and Innovation With the growth of the real estate sector, the demand for elevators in India has significantly increased over the past decade, rising from 30,000 units to 100,000 units annually. As buildings continue to expand vertically, elevator speeds have also evolved from 1–1.5 meters per second […]
Elevator Maintenance – Ensuring Long-term Efficiency and Safety
Know Your Elevator Series 12 Elevator Maintenance – Ensuring Long-term Efficiency and Safety While we’ve explored every aspect of elevators and their installation, maintenance is the key to ensuring the longevity, safety, and smooth operation of your elevator system. Just like any critical system in life, regular upkeep is not a luxury but a necessity. […]
Preparing for Elevator Installation
Know Your Elevator Series 11 Preparing for Elevator Installation Elevator installation is often perceived as a straightforward task. However, it is, in fact, a comprehensive project that requires meticulous preparation. In this blog, we discuss the critical prerequisites on the civil and electrical fronts that set the stage for smooth elevator installation. These preparatory works, […]
Home Elevators
Know Your Elevator Series 10 Home Elevators In our earlier blogs, we delved into various facets of elevators, including safety features, components, and the significance of meticulous elevator planning. This edition shifts the focus to Home Elevators, a niche category with distinctive features and applications compared to standard elevators. Let’s explore what sets them apart. […]
Understanding Building Types and Their Elevator Needs
Know Your Elevator Series 9 Understanding Building Types and Their Elevator Needs In Series 8, we discussed key design considerations for elevator systems. However, a crucial precursor to this is understanding the types of buildings and their unique elevator requirements. Below is a brief overview: Office Buildings In office buildings, peak traffic occurs just before […]
Key Factors Impacting Elevator System Design
Know Your Elevator Series 8 Key Factors Impacting Elevator System Design In our previous posts, we explored the fundamentals of traffic analysis and how the evolution of buildings reaching for the skies has shaped elevator design. In this series, we’ll focus on the critical design considerations that come into play when planning an elevator system. […]
Strategic Planning
Driving Innovation through effecting management blog Series 5 Strategic planning Strategic planning is a process undertaken by organizations to define their direction and make decisions on allocating resources to pursue their objectives effectively. It is important for any organization to have a 3 – 5 year strategy plan in place, which can be called a […]
Traffic Analysis
Know Your Elevator Series 7 Traffic Analysis This series we will cover the subject of traffic analysis which has a single-point agenda of optimizing the operation of a group of elevators installed in a commercial or residential building, In the early eighties the concept of group operation had just started in India in commercial buildings. […]
Inner Leadership
Series 4 Inner Leadership Let me start with a story about a lecture I had to deliver at a well-known Management School in Mumbai to a batch of final-year management students. It so happened, that they had attended and heard a renowned inspirational person Jaggi Vasudeo, whose philosophy of Inner Engineering is quite known to […]
