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Before signing a repair proposal · Choosing an elevator service provider · Buying a property with elevators · Planning an elevator budget
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REITS and Investors Beware When Buying a Property with Elevators (Part 2)
Editor’s note. As one of the top vertical transportation consulting firms in the United States, we get a lot of inquiries from buyers and sellers. Both parties want to conduct the necessary due diligence…
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REITS and Investors Beware When Buying a Property with Elevators (Part 1)
As one of the top elevator consulting firms in the United States, we see a lot of “disasters” out there. Among them is a failure to conduct “due diligence” before buying a property. Here’s…
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Should Your Elevator Company Write Your Specification?
No. When the company that will bid and perform the work also writes the specification that defines the work, the owner loses the one thing a specification exists to provide: the ability to compare…
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The Conflicts of Interest Inherent in Elevator Consulting
Here’s a common scenario we run into as elevator consultants. You might call it a “conflict of interest” problem. It goes like this. First, the client says, “We have multiple bids for our elevator…
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Elevator Consultant for REITS and Commercial Real Estate Investors: If We Had a Nickel
Here’s a tale of woe we often hear. Investors should have called us before they purchased a building, as we are the No. 1 elevator consultant working with commercial real estate investors and REITS.
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An Elevator Consulting Success Story: The Address Downtown Dubai
The Address Downtown, formerly The Address Downtown Dubai, is a hotel and residential skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Built by the Emaar Properties Group, the tower soars 63 stories in above Dubai and…
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Why Hospital Elevators Fall Behind the Rest of the Building
Hospital elevators fall behind because vertical transportation sits outside the clinical capital cycle. A hospital that replaces imaging equipment every seven years will run the same elevator controllers for thirty, because elevators are treated…
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Elevator Consulting for Hospitals: Key Insights and Best Practices
Among the industries that are most in need of elevator consulting is the hospital industry. We have found in our work that oftentimes hospital elevators and escalators are grossly neglected. Common Compliance Issues in…
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How to Track Elevator Maintenance Across Multiple Buildings
You track it by requiring documented, unit level evidence of every maintenance task performed, and by holding that record somewhere the building owner controls rather than somewhere the service provider controls. In practice this…
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When Does a Building Need a Vertical Transportation Upgrade?
A building needs a vertical transportation upgrade when its elevators or escalators can no longer meet the demands placed on them safely, reliably or economically, and repairs have stopped fixing the underlying problem. The…