Elevators and Structural Engineers
Elevators and Structural Engineers
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Has anyone come across a good article or presentation that summarizes what structural engineers need to know about elevators, how they attach, and how they impose loads on your structure?






RE: Elevators and Structural Engineers
RE: Elevators and Structural Engineers
RE: Elevators and Structural Engineers
Some push from the bottom, some pull from the top, some run on tracks on opposite sides of the carriage and others cantilver from one rail on one side of the carriage.
as others have said, best to get them involved early.
RE: Elevators and Structural Engineers
I know when I hear someone say it's a track elevator, or a counterweight, or some other type (if there are other types), that doesn't intantly bring any images to mind as to how the system works. Know how it works and what supplier needs for supports is beneficial just in terms of thinking about what you need there. Whether they need to be clipped off laterally at every floor or every 15 floors is really secondary to just knowing that they need to be clipped of laterally at some frequency.
RE: Elevators and Structural Engineers