Lifts, escalators, and moving walks are types of vertical transportation equipment that efficiently move people or goods between floors. Lifts use cables and counterweights to move a car vertically through a shaft. Common types include passenger, goods, and hydraulic lifts. Escalators are moving staircases used to transport people between floors, using steps connected to tracks and handrails. Moving walks are horizontal conveyors used to transport passengers horizontally or at an incline up to 15 degrees. Both escalators and moving walks have handrails and steps or decks that move to allow transportation.

1. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
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2. Lift is a type of vertical transport equipment that
efficiently moves people or goods between floors
or levels of a building, vessel, or other structure.
WHAT IS LIFT?
TYPES OF LIFTS
LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
•Open Lift (bubble type)
•Closed Lift (typical type)
Hydraulic lift
Passenger lift Goods lift
Strecher liftCapsule lift Glass lift

3. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
•They use an underground cylinder
•common for low level buildings with 2–5
floors (up to 6–8 floors)
•have speeds of up to 200 feet/minute (1
meter/second)
HYDRAULIC LIFT
A lift where the vertical movement is
done by hydraulic force.
GLASS LIFT
• give passengers a visually stimulating
ride between floors.
•The car walls must be constructed with
laminated glass
•the glass lift consist of entrance area
and a viewing area

4. Goods lift
LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
PASSENGER LIFT:A lift designed for the transport of passengers.

5. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
FIREMAN'S LIFT
•For buildings having height of 15m or more
described below :
•Lift car floor area of not less than 1.44 sq.m
• Loading capacity of not less than 544 kg (8
persons).
•Lift landing doors shall have minimum fire
resistance of two hours.
•The lift speed shall be 1.0 m/s or more
•reachable time to the top floor from the ground (or
entrance) floor within 60 seconds.

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Dumb waiter
•total inside ,height and capacity
not exceeding 0.9 m2, 1.25 m and
225 kg
• used for carrying materials and
no person.
DUMB WAITER

7. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
HOSPITAL LIFT
•minimum inside platform area 1275 mm wide x 2000
mm long
•minimum clear opening width of 1050 mm,
•an ambulance stretcher (minimum size 600 mm
wide x 2000 mm long) in its horizontal position.

8. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
Components of lift
• Control room
• Guides
• Lift car
• Lift car door
• Car rail
• Counter weight
• Control panel
• Lift pit
• Buffer
• Hoist way
• Hoist rope
• Ventilation window
• Flexible cable
• Drive crank

9. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
LIFT CAR :Platform where passengers or
goods is transported.
•Passenger elevators should be
located at the circulation core of
the building.
•minimum width and depth of
the car shall be 2000 mm
and 1291 mm.(for wheel chair)
•The rails shall be at least 38 mm
clear of the walls
• nominal height of 800 mm from the
floor.
•Height of the entrance to the lift car
shall not be less than 2 m.

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•alarm button and emergency stop switch shall
be at a height of 890 mm,
•highest floor button no higher than 1.37 m
from the floor.
•letters or numbers shall be a minimum of 15
mm high
•in fire emergency, DO NOT USE LIFT. USE EXIT STAIRS. This
sign shall be in letters not less than 12 mm high.
•control buttons shall be at least 19 mm min
dimensions.
•standby power within 60
seconds after
failure of normal power.

11. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
LIFT SHAFT: Constructed
with reinforced concrete.
counterweight :
•To grip the lift car
• Reduce the power of
generator
• Reduce the brake to
stop the car lifts
GEARLESS MOTOR
GUARD RAIL: hold the
lift from crashing down
if the rope break.

12. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
•Lift pits having depth more than 1.6 m
shall be provided
•The width of lift machine room shall be equal to be lift
(minimum of 2500 mm)
•The height shall not be less than 2.30 m throughout
under the lifting beam
•the trap door shall not be less than 1.0 m x 1.0 m
SHAFT PIT – the bottom end of the
shaft is called pit.
•machine room entrance is less than 1.5 m

13. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
Two Car Arrangement
where A is width of lift

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Three Car Arrangement
where A is width of lift

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Four Car Arrangement

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Six Car Arrangement
where A is width of lift
where A is width of lift

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Eight Car Arrangement
where A is width of lift

18. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
An escalator is a moving staircase – a conveyor
transport device for carrying people between floors
of a building.
WHAT IS ESCALATOR?
•designed on an incline of 27.3, 30, 35
degrees.
•If the height is more than 6m than
incline of 27.3 should be given
•The speed of the escalator, shall not be more than 0.63 m/s
for 30o angle of incline
and 0.50 m/s for 35o angle of incline.

19. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
TYPES OF ESCALATOR:
PARALLEL: These type of
escalator go up and down
simultaneously.
MULTI PARALLEL
CRISS-CROSS: They stacks the escalators that go in
single direction and reduces structural space
requirement.

20. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
TYPES OF ESCALATOR:
SPIRAL TYPE ESCALATORS: These are
used to enhance the architectural beauty
and to save the space.
UP” ESCALATOR NEXT TO STAIRCASE : It
is preferred that staircases be located
adjacent to the escalator if the escalator is
the primary means of transport between
floors.

21. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
COMPONENTS OF THE ESCALATOR:
• Landing Platforms.
•Truss.
•Tracks.
•Steps.
•Handrail.
•Escalator Exterior (Balustrade).
•Drive system.
•Auto-Lubrication System.
•Braking system.
•Safety devices.
•Electrical & Control Systems.

22. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
Handrail-
•the handrail width not more than 75mm
BALUSTRADE-
DECK BOARD- These are used for preventing
clothing from getting caught and other such
problems.
balustrade
deck board
•operating speed is less than 0.35 m/s
•The thickness of the glass
shall not be less than 6 mm.
•Height 680 mm vertically above the
nose line of the steps,
•Each moving handrail height not less
than 300 mm.

23. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
TRUSS –
•The truss is a hollow metal structure
•that bridges the lower and upper landings.
• The ends of the truss are attached to the top
and bottom landing platforms via steel or
concrete supports.
FLOOR PLATE-
•flush with the finished floor
• in front of the escalator shall be a
minimum of 3 m.
•STEPS-
•Trade shall not be less than 400 mm
•Riser shall not be more than 220 mm.
•front and back edges of the steps are each connected to two wheels.
steps

24. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
For a speed of 0.5m/s the theoretical capacity
is:
•600mm step width -4500 persons per hour
•800mm step width -6750 persons per hour
•1000mm step width -9000 persons/hour
•Standard transportation speed ranges
between 0.5 to 0.65m/s
•Minimum head room shall not be
less than 2.3 m.
•escalators having a vertical rise
not more than 6 m.

25. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
Moving Walk-A power driven,
horizontal or inclined, continuously
moving conveyor
• used for carrying passengers,
horizontally
•an incline up to a maximum of 15
degree.

26. LIFT,ESCALATOR AND MOVING WALKS
•normal handrail height not less than
300 mm
•operating speed is less than 0.35 m/s or the
width is no more than 530 mm.

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