Introductory technical guidance for professional engineers and construction managers interested in building elevators. Here is what is discussed: 1. INTRODUCTION 2. PLANNING AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS 3. ARCHITECTURE 4. STRUCTURAL 5. MECHANICAL 6. ELECTRICAL 7. FIRE PROTECTION 8. BEST PRACTICES.

Basic overview of elevator systems, equipment and technology. Covers elevator systems and codes, types of equipment and technology, and elevator terminology.

Before skyscrapers forever transformed the landscape of the modern metropolis, the conveyance that made them possible had to be created. Invented in New York in the 1850s, the elevator became an urban fact of life on both sides of the Atlantic by the early twentieth century. While it may at first glance seem a modest innovation, it had wide-ranging effects, from fundamentally restructuring building design to reinforcing social class hierarchies by moving luxury apartments to upper levels, previously the domain of the lower classes. The cramped elevator cabin itself served as a reflection of life in modern growing cities, as a space of simultaneous intimacy and anonymity, constantly in motion. In this elegant and fascinating book, Andreas Bernard explores how the appearance of this new element changed notions of verticality and urban space. Transforming such landmarks as the Waldorf-Astoria and Ritz Tower in New York, he traces how the elevator quickly took hold in large American cities while gaining much slower acceptance in European cities like Paris and Berlin. Combining technological and architectural history with the literary and cinematic, Bernard opens up new ways of looking at the elevator--as a secular confessional when stalled between floors or as a recurring space in which couples fall in love. Rising upwards through modernity, Lifted takes the reader on a compelling ride through the history of the elevator.

The practical constraints and considerations of the underlying engineering are also indicated."--BOOK JACKET.

Introductory technical guidance for professional engineers and construction managers interested in building elevators. Here is what is discussed:1. INTRODUCTION2. PLANNING AND DESIGN REQUIREMENTS3. ARCHITECTURE4. STRUCTURAL5. MECHANICAL6. ELECTRICAL7. FIRE PROTECTION8. BEST PRACTICES.

This book aims at providing basic technical information to the builders and architects which they normally seek from consultants. The content of this book is also expected to provide basic elevator knowledge to the students, particularly future Engineers, builders and architects. It is also my aim to help the employees of elevator companies, to get to know the elevators fully. Currently students do not get the opportunity to study about elevators. This book could lay the foundation for introducing " Basics of Elevator technology" as an elective subject. It is the author‟s belief that the civil, mechanical, Electrical or Electronic engineers & Architects who have done an elective in elevator engineering would find it easy to get absorbed in the Elevator industry. This book may also be a source of knowledge for the common man who manages housing societies. This book features Foreword from Mr Malhotra the former Managing Director of OTIS India and Mr Leandre Adifon the former Vice President of OTIS Worldwide Engineering, USA which justifies the value of this book.