News about elevators

Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant began to produce elevators according to new safety standards

The capital manufacturer of elevators, PJSC Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant, was the first in Russia to receive a certificate of compliance with new safety standards. This was reported in the press service of the department of investment and industrial policy of the capital.

"Moscow manufacturer of elevators, Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant, the first in Russia certified products in accordance with the updated GOST, aimed at improving the safety of elevator equipment. Today it is the only elevator production in the Russian Federation that has received the certificate of state standard (GOST) 33984.1-2016. The updated GOST 33984.1-2016 was created in order to maximally combine the safety standards of elevator equipment produced in the Eurasian Economic Union with the European standard EN 81-20: 2014, "the press service reported.

The department explained that the elevators, manufactured in accordance with the new standards, will be equipped with double-sided stoppers, which will allow preventing the excess speed from rising upwards.

"Using a special speed limiter will help prevent uncontrolled movements of the elevator car. Installing an inspection post in the pit will allow the elevator to operate safely with a smaller number of personnel, "explained the department.
According to the head of the investment and industrial policy department, Alexander Prokhorov, the products of the capital's factories are in demand in Moscow and the regions of Russia, including high quality standards and compliance with modern safety requirements.

Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant, PJSC annually produces more than 6 thousand elevators, another 10 thousand elevators are maintained by the company's specialists throughout Russia. Elevator equipment of this enterprise is used, including on unique objects in the city: in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, on the memorial on Poklonnaya Hill, in the State Kremlin Palace.

Source: Agency "Moscow"

Installation of elevators. Skyscrapers of Hong Kong

Today, Hong Kong is a high-rise building bursting into the sky. The city speaks with its inhabitants in the language of modernism and postmodernism. The architecture of Hong Kong is distinguished by Western style and functionalism. Due to the lack of land in the city, there are very few historical buildings left. Their places are occupied by skyscrapers above 150 meters. The modern diversity of Hong Kong architecture is due to the dynamic development of the city, mixing in it the architectural traditions of the East and the West, as well as economic indicators.

Western architecture came here in 1842, when the island was colonized by the British Empire. And until the Second World War, she peacefully got along with traditional Chinese buildings. It was after the British colonization and the growth of the city began, and with it the height of the buildings in it.

The birth date of Hong Kong skyscrapers can be called 1935. It was then that the building of the Hong Kong Bank was completed. It consisted of 13 floors and reached a height of 70 meters. However, high-rise residential buildings began to be built in Hong Kong only in 1955, when restrictions on the height of residential buildings were first lifted. In 1960, residential buildings already numbered up to 20 floors. For this there was a severe need. Hong Kong suffered from overpopulation - an influx of communist Chinese refugees was constantly entering the city.

The skyscrapers of Hong Kong today are the pearl of architectural development and the triumph of rationalism. Over the past two decades, a large number of residential and commercial skyscrapers have been built here. These modern towers hold the first place in the world in height. According to the latest data, in Hong Kong there are more than seven and a half thousand skyscrapers. By this indicator, he is ahead of even New York. The latest restrictions on the height of buildings in Hong Kong were lifted in 1998, after the closure of Kaitak Airport, located within the city.
Despite the harsh conditions of construction and the constant shortage of space for a growing population, Hong Kong does not forget its traditions. Even in the twenty-first century, the construction here takes into account the ancient science of Feng Shui. For example, Beim Yumin, the architect of the Tower of the Bank of China, had to make changes to his project to fit Feng Shui. Perhaps this makes sense, and ancient science plays its part in the commercial success of Hong Kong.
Consider the three tallest skyscrapers in Hong Kong.

First place is occupied by the International Commercial Center (International Commerce Center, ICC Tower). This 484 meters high skyscraper has 108 floors, plus another 4 underground floors. It was built in 2010 in the western part of the Kowloon district of Hong Kong. This is the seventh tallest building in Asia and the ninth largest in the world. Compared to the original design, the height of the building was reduced due to the ban on the construction of buildings above the surrounding mountains. Initially, the height of the skyscraper, according to the project was 574 meters, which would exceed the official ban.
The tower was designed by American architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) in partnership with Wong & Ouyang (HK) Ltd.

The top of the tower is a five-star hotel, managed by the firm Ritz-Carlton. This is one of the tallest hotels in the world and is located at an altitude of 425 m. For a rapid advance along a skyscraper, there are 30 high-speed elevators. But besides the installation of elevators, the builders installed 14 transfer-lifts and two VIP-lifts. Construction of the International Commercial Center in Hong Kong began in 2002 and the object was successfully commissioned in 2010.

The second highest is the International Financial Center (Eng. International Finance Center). But this is a complex of buildings consisting of two skyscrapers (One IFC and Two IFC), the IFC Mall and the 40-storey Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong.

We will consider only the highest building of the complex, Two IFC. This skyscraper with a height of 412 meters is the second in Hong Kong, the 17th in Asia and the 26th tallest building in the world. Construction began in 2000 and was completed in 2003. Designed by Cesar Pelli, the building was built by Asia's largest company, Sun Hung Kai Properties. The building is 412 meters high and has 88 floors with a total area of ​​185,805 m². High-speed passenger elevator service is carried out in four zones by qualified specialists, as there are 62 elevators in the skyscraper. In the skyscraper there are 22 trading floors, 14 floors are occupied by the Hong Kong Financial Department. On the 55th floor there is an exhibition on the history of Hong Kong coins and the Hong Kong Financial Management Library, which are open to the public during office hours.

Tower Two IFC appears in the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2 - The Cradle of Life.
From October to November 2003, the Financial Times, HSBC and Cathay Pacific companies placed an advertisement on the facade of the building with an area of ​​19 thousand m² and a length of 230 meters. The advertisement stretched over 50 floors and made it the largest advertisement ever placed on a skyscraper.

The third tallest building is Central Plaza (the English Plaza) - a 78-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong with a height of 374 meters. It is mainly located office space. It is the 24th tallest building in Asia (the tallest building of the continent from 1992 to 1996) and the 31st tallest in the world (in 2015).
Central Plaza building has a triangular prism shape, which ends with a pyramid, topped with a 60 meter antenna.

The architects managed to place the building in a unique way. After all, it is located in front of the Hong Kong Exhibition Center, 180 meters high, next to the governor's administrative building, 176 meters high, on the one hand, and the three-story fire station building, on the other. The tower is clearly visible from the sea and floating above the skyscrapers seems to be 2 times higher.
At the base of the tower is a large pedestrian area with green alleys, fountains and benches for rest. Above the base rise 57 floors of offices, an observation deck for visitors opens up gorgeous views of the sea harbor and port, and five technical floors.

The building plan is formed by two equilateral triangles with cut corners. In the inner triangle are located elevators, stairs and technical equipment, in the outer - offices, viewing platforms. The tower serves 39 high-speed elevators. The facade of the building is lined with mirrored panels of various shades that are interspersed with horizontal stripes on its sides. The long vertical windows of the facade light up at night with multi-colored neon lights that highlight the contours of the building.

The Central Plaza skyscraper, along with Citic Plaza from Guangzhou, is the highest reinforced concrete building in the world.

In Russia, introduced penalties for damage to elevators and escalators

On March 6, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on administrative responsibility for unsafe elevators and escalators.

A new article has been introduced into the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation on the responsibility of persons responsible for the safety of elevators and escalators.

In accordance with the Federal Law of March 6, 2019 No. 23-ФЗ "On Amendments to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses".

Violation of the requirements for the organization of safe use and maintenance of elevators, lifting platforms for the disabled, passenger conveyors (moving walkways) and escalators, except for escalators in metro.

1. Violation of the requirements for the organization of the safe use and maintenance of elevators, lifting platforms for disabled people, passenger conveyors (moving walkways) and escalators, with the exception of escalators in metros, except for the cases provided for in part 2 of this article, entails an administrative fine on officials

• in Amount from 2 to 5 thousand rubles;
• for legal entities - from 20 to 40 thousand rubles.

2. Violation of safety requirements for elevators, lifting platforms for disabled people, passenger conveyors (moving walkways) and escalators, for elimination of escalators in subways, creating a threat of harm to the life or health of citizens or the occurrence of the accident entails the imposition of an administrative fine:

• on citizens in the amount of from 3 to 5 thousand rubles;
• on officials - from 20 thousand to 30 thousand rubles or disqualification for a period of one to one and a half years;
• for legal entities - from 300 to 350 thousand rubles or administrative suspension of activities for up to ninety days.

The new Federal Law applies to specialists who perform work on the installation, dismantling and maintenance of elevators and escalators, as well as the work of dispatchers.

How often should elevators change in homes?

The National Elevator Union (NLS) proposed to include the replacement of dilapidated elevators in the national project "Housing and urban environment". The NLS proposed the idea of ​​replacing the old lifts with new lifts by including the item "Elevator Maintenance" in the receipts, but this option was not supported by either the Ministry of Construction or the Ministry of Industry and Trade (according to preliminary calculations by the Ministry of Construction, the cost of replacing old elevators in the country will be 150 200 billion rubles).

According to the executive director of the National Elevator Union Peter Kharlamov, the proposal of the DLS means not collecting money from the population, but creating a transparent scheme for paying for the maintenance of the elevator industry. If the replacement of dilapidated elevators is included in the national project, budget money will be allocated to help replace the required number of obsolete lifting mechanisms by 2020. In addition, this will make it possible to outline for the next five years the frequency of repairs to an aging lift park.

"We have no goals to burden the residents. We propose to do this in order to liquidate the arrears of management companies to the organizations servicing elevators, so that this scheme is transparent, approximately the same as with garbage collection. We have no desire to get any additional profit, we just want to get our money. When they go through management companies, not all of the MCs in good faith are calculated with us at the rates that they show to homeowners. For example, if residents pay 35 rubles per square meter for maintaining a house, this amount includes five rubles for maintenance of elevators. Some MCs do not list five rubles, but three, although they report to residents for five. Others don't list anything at all. Without a normal and transparent scheme, we cannot replace 110 thousand elevators, "says Kharlamov.

How many dilapidated elevators in Russia?

According to the National Lift Union (NLS), there are about 440,000 elevators in the housing stock of Russia. Of these, about 110 thousand need to be replaced. If you consider office buildings, medical and educational institutions and industrial enterprises, then the number of elevators that have worked out their resources will be around 130,000. Last year, they replaced 18,000-20,000, but so far there are no exact figures, says Kharlamov.

What is the lifespan of the elevator and how much does it cost to replace it?

The lifespan of the elevator is 25 years. Upon its expiration, the specialists carry out diagnostics, during which they determine how much the elevator meets the safety rules. The examination shows whether it is possible to repair the lifting mechanism or it is time to replace it.
According to estimates of the NLS, 10,000 elevators become obsolete every year in Russia. The cost of replacing and installing each is 2 million rubles.

How to get a replacement lift?

If the elevator regularly fails, you should contact the organization that is engaged in its maintenance, or the management company. Replacing the elevator is possible only after the end of its service life and the decision of the expert committee. If the tenants themselves want to replace the elevator, then they can do it only at their own expense (including on credit).
At their own expense, residents of the house can also replace any parts of the lifting mechanism or carry out its partial repair. To do this, you need to hold a general meeting, and then, if there is a majority of votes, contact the Criminal Code to enter into an agreement with liftovikami to perform the necessary work.

Source: Arguments and Facts