Save time, space and energy

Energy costs are fast becoming a major building performance indicator. Elevators usually represent around 5% of a buildings energy consumption, that may not seem very much on an individual basis but collectively can amount to a significant level.

There have been an number of recent advances in elevator technology that improve the overall efficiency of a vertical transportation system, helping to reduce the overall operating costs of your building. Older elevator technology employing a hydraulic drive without a counterweight is much less efficient than modern traction drive systems by up to 50% in most cases. Historically the majority of low rise buildings employed hydraulic drive systems because the initial installation cost was relatively low. In today's market the advent of modern manufacturing and advances in traction drive technology make them the cheapest option, with much lower running costs.

Clearly if you have a hydraulic unit, great savings can be made by modernising to a traction based elevator system, that will repay the initial investment by long term reductions in energy and maintenance costs.

Modern elevator systems offer wider benefits like space saving in the building, modern traction elevators have smaller motors that are machine room less (MRL). This additional space can be reclaimed back as rentable office/living space. Other benefits of modern traction elevators include shorter passenger waiting times, quicker journey times and longer service intervals.

Modern elevator control systems can also reduce long term energy consumption by turning off the car lighting and ventilation in between use.