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General Terms Relating to Lifts - soniya - 06-02-2019

General Terms Relating to Lifts 
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LIFT (elevator)
Lift  An appliance designed to transport persons or materials between two or more levels in a vertical or substantially vertical direction by means of a guided car. The word ‘elevator’ is also synonymously used for ‘lift’.

Dumb Waiter
A lift with a car which moves in guides in a vertical direction; has a net floor area not exceeding 1 m2  , total inside height of 1.2 m, whether or not provided with fixed or removable shelves; has a capacity not exceeding 250 kg and is exclusively used for carrying materials and shall not carry any person.

Lift Pit
The space in the lift well below the level of the lowest lift landing served

Lift Landing
That’ portion of a building or structure used for discharge of passengers or goods or both into or from a lift car.

Rated Load (Lift)
The maximum load for which the lift car is designed and installed to carry safely at its rated speed.

Rated Speed (Lift)
The mean of the maximum speed attained by the lift car in the upward and downward direction with rated load in the lift car

MRL Lift
Machine Room Less Lift  It do not have a fixed machine room on the top of the hoistway, instead the traction hoisting machine is installed either on the top side wall of the hoistway or on the bottom of the hoistway. 

Intended use of lift
The number of lifts and their capacities (that is, load and speed) required for a given building shall be suitably decided to meet the intended requirement.

System performance
System performance criteria shall be based on building type (residential, commercial, hotel, hospital, etc)

Accessibility requirements
All lifts installed for public use shall meet the accessibility requirements in accordance with 13 of Part 3 ‘Development Control Rules and General Building Requirements’ of the NBC-2016

Environmental conditions :
Lifts directly exposed to atmospheric conditions, that is, weather (for example, those meant for external applications), or any other adverse condition shall be appropriately designed and protected for that particular condition.


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