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Why an Elavator Consaltant?
Ami Lustig
Forum Istanbul
16 April 2005
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The following short quiz consists of 5 questions
and tells whether you are qualified to the title
PA Professional Audience"  
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Question Number 1 How do you put a giraffe into a
refrigerator?
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The correct answer is   Open the refrigerator,
put in the giraffe and close the door.  
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Question Number 2 How do you put an elephant into
a refrigerator?
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Wrong Answer Open the refrigerator, put in the
elephant and close the refrigerator. Correct
Answer Open the refrigerator, take out the
giraffe, put in the elephant and close the door.

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Question Number 3 The Lion King is hosting an
animal conference. All the animals attend except
one. Which animal does not attend?
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Correct Answer The Elephant. The Elephant
is in the refrigerator. Remember?
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OK, even if you did not answer the first three
questions correctly, you still have one more
chance to show your abilities.
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Question Number 4 There is a river you must
cross. But crocodiles inhabit it.   How do you
manage it?
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Correct Answer You swim across. Why? All the
Crocodiles are attending the Animal Conference.

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Question Number 5 What is the most important
difference between the two buildings in this
slide?  
Correct Answer The hotel on the left hand side
has 6 typical guest floors while the other hotel
has only 5  
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Nofit Hotel Eilat 1988
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With Elevator Consultant No Consultant  
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Consult
To seek advice or information from ask guidance
from
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1. What is an elevator consultant? 2. Who needs
one? 3. What services and benefits are
offered? 4. Where do responsibilities start and
stop? 5. How does one select an elevator
consultant?
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What is an elevator consultant?
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Objectivity
No conflict of interest
No competition
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The ability to evaluate, communicate, document,
validate and execute all matters' related to a
client's vertical transportation equipment

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The elevator consulting engineer has only one
goal and that is to help his client achieve a
safe, modern vertical transportation system
specifically designed to meet his special needs
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• Professional experience
• Impartial judgment
• Practical knowledge

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1. What is an elevator consultant? 2. Who needs
one? 3. What services and benefits are
offered? 4. Where do responsibilities start and
stop? 5. How does one select an elevator
consultant?
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Who needs an elevator consultant?
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An elevator consultant becomes increasingly
valuable if a buildings owner is struggling with
one or more of the following questions
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Performance satisfaction
Reasonable understanding
Apples for apples
Understands available options
In-house resources
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1. What is an elevator consultant? 2. Who needs
one? 3. What services and benefits are
offered? 4. Where do responsibilities start and
stop? 5. How does one select an elevator
consultant?
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What services and benefits are offered?
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• Core layout
• Duty selection
• Equipment application

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• Building location analysis and access to
  horizontal transportation and marketplace

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• Elevator requirements, even in similar buildings,
  can vary significantly because of
• location
• tenancy
• occupational density
• parking
• proximity of public transportation

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whether it is new construction or the
modernization of an existing one
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• Analysis of present and future tenant needs in
  vertical transportation
• elevators
• escalators moving walks
• dumbwaiters
• special hoists
• security elevators in banks
• freight materials in hospitals hotels
• etc

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comparing the cost and benefit of alternative
solutions
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In the case of existing equipment, performance
measurement and condition are documented to
provide a benchmark for improved service
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The consultant must take the time to compare
alternative bids to ensure a complete
understanding of the project requirements by
contractors, the availability of the necessary
resources and the management capability to
deliver the project to specification and programme
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• Budget estimates of comparative new systems

• Pre-engineering calculations

• Traffic Studies

• Signal equipment

• Housekeeping

• Punch list

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• Housekeeping

• Inventory

• Punch list

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• The economics of modernization, including
  estimates on costs and future savings showing how
  soon equipment may be amortized

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• Feasibility study

• Specifications related documents

• Approvals

• Project management

• Auto parking facilities

• Final acceptance

• Maintenance

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• Knowledge of the vertical transportation service
  offered by competing buildings

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• Analysis of urban renewal developments in
  progress or proposed affecting the building's
  future and its needs in vertical transportation

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• Auto parking facilities

• Final acceptance

• Maintenance

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Shortest wait and the fastest travel for optimum
destination times
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Poor selection of equipment at design stage can
have a very serious effect, especially when the
building is fully operational

Poor elevator service will seriously effect the
movement of people around the building, resulting
in wasted time and frustration by users
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Professional advice at an early stage can have a
very beneficial and tangible effect on both cost
and efficiency
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There has to be a good deal of man-made thinking
before the electronic brain is set properly to go
into action
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"Too much" is expensive, and costly to maintain.
"Too little" means lost efficiency and poorer
service.
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• The consultant must always start his assignment
  with the basic measures of value for vertical
  transportation

• He must be thoroughly familiar at all times
  with the newest equipment made by the foremost
  manufacturers in the vertical transportation
  industry, as well as accessory companies

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• Modernization jobs
• complete survey of existing
• equipment
• what can be retained
• what must be replaced

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The final decision is made by the client, but the
written report is the consultant's documented
basis for his recommendation.
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Ability to provide satisfactory maintenance
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What real value the client is getting?
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The consultant is the clients specialist The
consultants knowledge and experience brings
tangible value at all times Both the savings
and operations that the consultant proposes
should be significant

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The consultant should be able to explain clearly
what the problem is, and give at least two
alternatives, hopefully three, that the building
owner and manager can use. The three categories
are good better, best, their costs and what and
why the consultant is giving these
recommendations

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The vertical transportation consultant has, by
adopting a generic approach to performance and
technical specifications enabled building
managers and owners to purchase equipment that
meet the required performance criteria and
provide the benefits of not necessarily being
tied to the original manufacturer

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If the elevator contractor is given the right
specifications then he can and should be held
accountable for the installation at the price
accepted
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People only do what they are told to do in
writing, no more
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With the proper guidance from the consultant
there will be no question where and who the
responsible party is when things go wrong
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Maintenance

The first type of contract is for maintenance
service only.
The other type of contract is a full service
replacement contract.
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The Motivation to Perform Under both types of
contracts
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1. What is an elevator consultant? 2. Who needs
one? 3. What services and benefits are
offered? 4. Where do responsibilities start and
stop? 5. How does one select an elevator
consultant?
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Where does an elevator consultants
responsibility start and stop?
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The consultant should be expected to play the
leading role in the design, installation and
ultimate performance of the vertical
transportation system
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1. What is an elevator consultant? 2. Who needs
one? 3. What services and benefits are
offered? 4. Where do responsibilities start and
stop? 5. How does one select an elevator
consultant?
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How does one select an elevator consultant?
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The elevator consultant offers a unique source of
expertise in all aspects of vertical
transportation systems and their implementation
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The vertical transportation consultant is
insurance policy for

• smooth

• safe

• efficient equipment operations

The building owner or manager shouldnt settle
for anything less
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• The building owner or manager shouldnt settle
  for anything less

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Elevator mistakes are always costly
They never die
They can be avoided
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THANK YOU

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