New Elevator Design
New Elevator Design and Construction Consulting
Independent vertical transportation guidance for owners, architects, engineers, and developers — from early planning and equipment selection through specifications, bidding, construction, testing, and final acceptance.
Planning & design
Establish the elevator requirements while the building is still being designed
Senawi Group Consulting LLC assists project teams in defining elevator requirements based on building use, occupancy, traffic demand, travel, service requirements, accessibility, performance expectations, and long-term maintainability.
Early coordination can help establish the appropriate number, type, capacity, speed, and configuration of elevators while allowing the architectural and engineering teams to coordinate the physical and building-system requirements before construction documents are completed.
New construction services
Technical support from concept through project turnover
- Elevator system planning and design criteria
- Traffic analysis and handling-capacity review
- Equipment type, speed, capacity, and quantity selection
- Hoistway, pit, overhead, machine-space, and interface coordination
- Performance and operational requirements
- Project specifications and bid documents
- Contractor bid evaluation and technical comparison
- Shop drawing and submittal review
- Construction administration and field observation
- Testing, deficiency review, final acceptance, and closeout
Traffic analysis
Match elevator capacity to the building's expected demand
Traffic analysis can help determine whether the proposed elevator quantity, capacity, speed, and arrangement are appropriate for anticipated occupancy and building use. The objective is to provide reasonable handling capacity and passenger service without unnecessarily increasing equipment or construction cost.
Elevator planning can also address service, freight, accessibility, emergency operation, loading, and other building-specific transportation requirements.
Specifications & bidding
Define performance and equipment requirements before contractor selection
Project specifications establish technical requirements, acceptable equipment, controls, fixtures, interfaces, performance criteria, testing, documentation, warranty, maintenance, and contractor responsibilities.
During bidding, we can assist in reviewing proposals, substitutions, clarifications, exclusions, and technical differences so the project team can compare contractor offerings against the defined project requirements.
Construction & acceptance
Follow the elevator from submittals through final acceptance
Construction-phase consulting can include submittal review, coordination assistance, field observations, progress and quality review, deficiency identification, and verification of specification requirements.
At completion, testing and acceptance review can verify operating performance and project requirements before turnover, closeout, and commencement of long-term maintenance.
Independent consulting
Independent of elevator manufacturers and contractors
Senawi Group Consulting does not manufacture elevator equipment or sell elevator installation or maintenance contracts. Our role is to provide independent technical guidance to the owner and project team throughout planning, design, procurement, construction, and acceptance.
Technical Advice
Planning questions before design decisions are fixed
Planning a new elevator project?
Bring elevator planning into the project before the major design decisions are fixed
We can assist with system planning, equipment selection, traffic analysis, specifications, bidding, construction administration, testing, and final acceptance.