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Lift Design Example: - The Following Notes Give An Example For Design of Lifts

This document provides an example of designing lifts for an office building with 10 floors. It outlines the key inputs needed like building dimensions, population estimates, and service requirements. The example then shows the step-by-step calculations to determine: the population and arrival rate per floor, the required lift car size, the round trip time, and the number of lifts needed to meet the quality of service requirement of 30 seconds maximum wait time between lifts. It concludes that a 13-person lift car is needed, with 4 cars required to handle the estimated 100.5 persons arriving in a 5 minute period while maintaining the 30 second maximum wait time.

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Lift Design Example: - The Following Notes Give An Example For Design of Lifts

This document provides an example of designing lifts for an office building with 10 floors. It outlines the key inputs needed like building dimensions, population estimates, and service requirements. The example then shows the step-by-step calculations to determine: the population and arrival rate per floor, the required lift car size, the round trip time, and the number of lifts needed to meet the quality of service requirement of 30 seconds maximum wait time between lifts. It concludes that a 13-person lift car is needed, with 4 cars required to handle the estimated 100.5 persons arriving in a 5 minute period while maintaining the 30 second maximum wait time.

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Lift Design Example

The following notes give an example for


design of lifts

Traffic Design - Nos. and Size of Lifts


Estimation of population
Quality of service required
The up-peak interval of an office tower:
20s or less excellent system
30s satisfactory system
Quantity of service required
The handling capacity within 5 minutes
Estimation of arrival rate
Handling capacity = (5minx60x0.8xLift Car Capacity in nos.
of persons)/(up peak interval x population above terminal
floor of zone)

(cont.)
Round Trip Time (RTT) by up peak model

RTT = 2Htv + (S +1)ts+ 2Ptp


Where,
RTT = round trip time in seconds
H = highest call reversal floor
S = average no. of stops
tv= time to transit 2 adjacent floors at rated speed
in seconds
ts = time consumed when making a stop in
seconds
tp= passenger transfer time for entering or exiting
the lift car in seconds
P = 0.8xlift car capacity in person

Question: Lift Traffic Design


Design Input:

An office building of 10 floors above the main terminal is to be built,


each floor of 1200 sqm of net space.
The inter-floor distance is 3.3m.
The required up peak interval is 30s (i.e. satisfactory grade)
Estimation of population: assume 12sqm per person per floor,
Assume 12.5% population peak arrival rate
Assumed lift rated speed = 1.6m/s
Given that:
ts=7.7s (from code)
tp=1.2s (assumed)
H=9.5, S=6.7 (from code)

Design Output:
Determine the following information:
i) Persons per floor
ii) Number of persons per arrival
iii) Nos. of lift trips per 5 minutes
iv) Car size required (person car)
v) Total travel distance per lift
vi) Transit time between 2 floors
vii) RTT (Round Trip Time)
viii) Nos. of car required
ix) Handling Capacity (persons per 5 mins)
x) What is the difference between quantity of service
and quality of service

Results:
i.e. Pop=1200/12=100 persons per floor
, i.e. 0.125x0.8x100x10flr=100 persons
Qty of service: Nos of trip in 5 minutes = 5minx60/30s=10
Nos. of person per trip = 100/10 = 10
The required car size is 10/0.8 = 13-person car
Total travel distance = 3.3x10=33m
Assumed rated speed = 1.6m/s
tv=3.3/1.6=2.1s
ts=7.7s (from code)
tp=1.2s (assumed)
P=13x0.8=10.4 persons
H=9.5, S=6.7 (from code)
RTT=(2x9.5x2.1)+(6.7+1)7.7+(2x10.4x1.2)=124.2s
Since up peak interval required is 30s, i.e. 4 cars are required
The up peak interval is 124.2/4 = 31.1s
The up peak handling capacity is (300/124.2)x10.4x4 = 100.5
persons / 5min

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