Independent · Michigan
Planning and design, modernization, maintenance audits, equipment evaluations, project management, due diligence, and expert witness work.
Our evaluations are performed without affiliation to equipment manufacturers or maintenance contractors, so every recommendation answers to your project’s objectives, building requirements, and long-term value rather than to a manufacturer’s or contractor’s preferences.
By equipment
An escalator assessment reads step chain and track wear along the truss; an elevator assessment reads rope and brake condition in the machine room. Neither one finds what the other is looking for.
Traffic analysis, equipment selection, and modernization planning for new and existing installations.
Condition assessments, safety reviews, and replacement planning for escalator systems.
Design review, operational assessment, and safety inspection for moving walk installations.
In detail
Independent assessments for elevators, escalators, and moving walks.
We establish the current condition, performance, safety, and remaining useful life of the equipment, so that maintenance, repair, modernization, and capital planning decisions rest on what the machine is actually doing rather than on the contractor’s account of it.
Independent maintenance audits for elevators, escalators, and moving walks.
An independent maintenance audit identifies deficiencies before they become costly repairs or service interruptions, while providing owners with objective recommendations to improve equipment performance and extend service life. We read the maintenance contract’s stated scope against the work actually performed, review the callback log for repeat faults, and inspect rope and brake condition on the equipment itself.
Modernization planning and project management.
Whether equipment has reached the end of its useful life, replacement parts have become obsolete, or performance no longer meets the needs of the building, we deliver objective guidance throughout the modernization process. We help our clients manage the process and see it through to the end.
Expert planning, design, and project management for new installations.
We settle the decisions a new installation turns on: car count and speed derived from a traffic analysis of the building’s own population, machine-room against machine-room-less, and the duty cycle the building will actually run rather than the one the catalog assumes.
We carry the project from initial planning through final acceptance, where the installed equipment is tested against the contract speed, door timing, leveling tolerance, and ride quality the specification called for.
Drawing review, project specifications, and shop drawing approval.
We review the architect’s drawings against what the equipment will physically need: hoistway dimensions and pit depth, overhead clearance, machine-room layout and access, and the structural and electrical provisions the installation depends on. Conflicts found on a drawing cost a revision. The same conflicts found on site cost a change order.
From that review we issue a bid-ready specification written to your building rather than to a manufacturer’s catalog, so competing bids answer one document. Contractor shop drawings are then checked back against it before fabrication begins, which is the last point at which a deviation can be corrected without rework.
Also offered
We oversee projects from concept through completion by coordinating design, bidding, construction, testing, and final acceptance — where the car is run against the contract speed, door timing, and leveling tolerance before the contractor is released.
Our due diligence inspections provide buyers, investors, and property managers with detailed evaluations of elevator equipment before acquisition or renovation.
Full scope
Engagements run from a single condition assessment through full construction administration. A project draws on as few or as many of these as it needs.
Independence in figures
Describe the installation and what it is doing — or failing to do — and we will tell you which of the sixteen services applies, including when the answer is that none of them do.
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