What does the lift consultant do?

The lift consultant provides advice and assistance to the installation and renovation of people moving devices such as lifts, escalators and sidewalks. Consultation can take place in the early planning phases of new construction, reconstruction and reuse plans. These building specialists can also offer advice on maintenance, rehabilitation of aging equipment and modernization to make the equipment safer and more efficient. This work usually involves traveling to visit the construction site and meeting buildings and designers to discuss the elevator and planned construction activities. Consultants provide advice on the location, size and arrangement of elevators and other equipment to meet the needs of internal transport. These include not only people around the equipment, but also freight and special needs. Special considerations may include lifts used to move patients between the floor where the elevators may need to hold hospital beds, equipment support and persona supportl. The consultant can study building plans and offer proposals, cooperate with the engineer to place and program the elevator to ensure that they meet the needs of passengers.

When buildings are rebuilt, the company can install or equip them with lifts. The lift consultant can evaluate the building and plans for the development of proposals. For adaptive reuse, where companies want to maintain the historical character of the building and at the same time make available and more functional, the consultant must consider discreet integration of functions to modernize the building without destroying appearance and feeling. Especially for historical monuments that can be protected, this requires special skills.

Companies can also call the elevator consultant to get advice on the modernization of the elevator system safer and more efficient. Work may include consultations on planned maintenance and similar activities that maintain lifts in operation smoothly and safeE. Consultants, unlike technicians, do not perform repairs and maintenance, but must be familiar with systems and any relevant laws in order to advise companies in a safe and appropriate maintenance plan.

For work as a lift consultant, no special qualifications are required and come from different environments. Some may be engineers, designers or former elevator techniques. Others have experience in construction and contractual contracts or learned about work at work for consulting business. Like other contractors consultants, the lift consultants have to keep up with the development in this industry to provide their customers with the highest quality and ensure that companies gain advice that is legally and architecturally healthy.