Elite Elevator

NORTH AMERICAN BUILDING TOTAL TRANSFORMATION COMPLETED! 

This job was an incredible transformation of a building running with 4 different decades worth of elevator equipment. Over a 2 year period, we modernized this 5-car elevator system running on equipment from 1980, 1965, 1948 and dating as far back as 1929. As the project progressed, we were able to keep the un-modernized elevators running while bringing each new elevator online. We basically built a second machine room inside the existing room and worked around all that moving equipment for the better part of 2 years.  

We added new governors, new rope grippers, new doors, new door equipment. We removed thousands of feet of abandoned wire and piping. We added new cabs, new compensation all new pit equipment and still kept the old dispatching system alive until we turned over the 4^th out of 5 elevators. As you can see, we were unable to even take a picture of the whole machine room as we had to remove 15 tons of antiquated equipment piece by piece once we got the new system on-line. The original Otis #74 machines were retained and refurbished as part of this project and all elevators are now modernized with new Smartrise controls containing DSD 412 drives. This was by far one of the most complex modernizations we have completed as the OEM equipment was such a different mix of manufactures that it was truly one of a kind.