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A limestone civic hall with a bank of bronze elevator doors set beneath a stone arch.

Schedule of works

Eight steps, consultation to closeout

Specifications written to your requirements, bids evaluated against them, and acceptance testing you can hold a contractor to.

Steps
8
Begins
Initial Consultation
Ends
Project Closeout
Affiliations
None

Each step depends on the one before it

A bid cannot be evaluated against a specification that has not been written, and equipment cannot be accepted against a test nobody agreed to. The order is the method.

  1. Initial Consultation

    We start by understanding your objectives, constraints, and the condition of the equipment in question.

  2. Site Assessment

    On-site review of the installation, its environment, and its operating history.

  3. Technical Evaluation

    Analysis of condition, performance, code compliance, and remaining useful life.

  4. Recommendations

    Objective findings and options, with the trade-offs of each stated plainly.

  5. Design & Specifications

    Detailed project specifications written to your requirements, not a manufacturer’s catalog.

  6. Bidding Assistance

    Contractor selection support, bid review, and evaluation of proposals.

  7. Construction Administration

    Oversight through installation, coordinating design, construction, and testing.

  8. Project Closeout

    Final acceptance testing, documentation, and handover.

A university circulation space in timber and concrete, escalators rising between floors beside full-height glazing.

Step 3, technical evaluation

Assessed before anything is specified

What the assessment inspects

Established on the equipment itself, in the machine room and the hoistway — before a specification is written or a contractor is asked to price the work.

  • The maintenance contract’s stated scope, read against the work actually performed
  • The callback log, for repeat faults the contractor has been resetting rather than fixing
  • Rope and brake condition, inspected on the equipment itself
A bright multi-storey hospital atrium, a glass elevator bank rising through the space beneath a skylight.
A hospital atrium bank — the traffic and duty a specification is written to

Why it is run this way

A specification written to your building, not to a catalog

We sell no equipment and bid none of the work we specify. The specification is written before any contractor sees it, so the firm that writes it cannot win the job.

What the sequence produces

  • Deficiencies a contractor has not been fixing, named before they become service interruptions
  • Remaining useful life established before anyone prices the work, not argued after a bid arrives
  • Modernization timed to obsolete parts and traffic demand, not to a supplier’s replacement cycle
  • Bids compared line by line, because they answer one specification written before any of them arrived

Step one is a conversation

How much of the sequence above your building needs is not decided in advance.

Request a consultation

Useful to have ready

  • Building type and how it operates — traffic patterns, shutdown windows
  • Equipment: how many units, what type, roughly what age
  • Manufacturer and current maintenance contractor, if you know them
  • What prompted the call — a failure, a survey, a budget cycle, a sale
  • Your timeline and whether capital is already allocated