Category: elevator consulting
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Three things Hospitality Hotels can do to save cost immediately
In today’s times, the cliché doing more with less has never been so true; life just isn’t the same. We all wear multiple hats with less staff and more responsibilities while managing…
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Poor Elevator Maintenance and Service Are Bleeding Hotel Building Budgets
The Elevator Consultants (TEC) has worked with hundreds of buildings with elevators, and building owners’ concerns are typically the same. The hospitality industry faced especially hard challenges over the last year and…
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Three Things Buildings Can do to Save Elevator Cost Immediately
In today’s tumultuous and fast-paced times, the cliché “doing more with less” has never rung so true. We all wear multiple hats with less staff, more responsibilities, procedural changes, and the pressure…
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Elevator Consultants Release Playbook for Operational Efficiency
CHICAGO, December 13, 2019. The Elevator Consultants has created a playbook offering step-by-step guidance for building owners and property managers. It assists in managing their elevators, escalators, and other vertical transportation equipment.…
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Three Key Strategies Buildings with Elevators Want To Adopt
The Elevator Consultants has offered up strategic best practices for owners with elevators in their buildings. This is in response to several elevator and escalator-related incidents nationwide. Some elevator best strategic practices…
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Elevator Modernization & Upgrades: Three Bids, and the Viewpoint of an Elevator Consultant
“I have three bids.” This is very common for an elevator consulting firm or vertical transportation consulting firm to hear from building owners, property managers, and facility managers. This includes whether they…
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Who Is Responsible for Elevator Code Compliance, the Owner or the Property Manager?
The building owner. ASME A17.1/CSA B44 places the obligation for compliance, including the maintenance control program required by Section 8.6, on the owner of the equipment. A property management agreement can delegate…
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ASME A17.1/CSA B44 Safety Code for Elevator and Escalator Safety: Who’s Responsible?
In buildings, it is true that the property managers are to make sure that the elevators, escalators, lifts, dumbwaiters, etc., also referred to as vertical transportation, are receiving maintenance services. But, as…
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Building Owners and Elevators: The Need for an Elevator Consultant
Building owners rely on their resident “elevator expert,” usually the elevator service company for information on the health and status of their elevators. It’s akin to the situation when one brings his…
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Why Do Building Owners Pay for a Maintenance Control Program and Not Get One?
Because the maintenance agreement bundles the maintenance control program into a monthly price, and almost nobody verifies it was delivered. ASME A17.1/CSA B44 Section 8.6 requires a maintenance control program for every…