Would a lift benefit your home or business? The 100-storey ‘Australia 108’ in Victoria is the building with the most floors and second tallest in Australia. While climbing up and down tall buildings provides a good workout, it’s more practical to provide elevators as an alternative. In fact, options like disability lifts can also benefit residences. Today, the modern elevator can provide many benefits and some of them are:
Space-Efficient
Stairs are the traditional way to move up and down storeys. In fact, they can provide a good way to get exercise by walking up and down the stairway.
However, the process of adding an elevator to a building’s stairs is very space-efficient. It only requires a shaft that moves up and down between the different storeys. A lift installer can even help you select the most space-saving unit to provide more space for your home or office.
The main goal when picking a lift is to create a streamlined form and high functionality. It can add value to your flat or company building in different ways including structural benefits. Besides freeing up office space, a lift can also save time and effort of people with mobility issues, or those carrying heavy loads.
Efficiency Boost
This is especially the case for commercial buildings with dozens of storeys, for example. In these situations, it’s simply very time-consuming and costly to require workers to carry items from the bottom to the top floor by hand-carrying them. Even if they use various containers, it’s still a laborious task that requires a great amount of time, effort, and money.
Meanwhile, when a company can use an elevator to get to the top or bottom floor, it boosts the workers’ productivity and morale. For example, it can be very tiring for workers to carry heavy merchandise and equipment up and down floors.
Stair-climbing is a good workout but can be exhausting for workers. This can affect their energy levels that they need for other activities. That, in turn, can lower worker productivity and efficiency, which is something companies want to avoid.
Disability Access
Lifts can increase the mobility of household members or company employees who are unable to ascend and descend stairs. In these situations, a disability access lift can provide an effective way for family or workers to move around a multi-storey building.
Property Value
A home lift or commercial elevator can increase the structure’s value. It boosts the resale value if you plan to sell the building in the future.
This happens in various ways. An elevator improves a company’s efficiency when moving merchandise and equipment to different storeys. Meanwhile, it also helps household members with mobility problems.
Increased Safety
Stairways can cause many safety issues related to factors like:
- Lighting (dim)
- Clutter
- Damage
- Crowded
- Handrails (damaged/missing)
These factors are more common among commercial buildings, but can also be safety issues in residential buildings. For example, when many workers, clients, or tenants are using stairs at the same time, this can increase the chance of falls and other accidents.
On the other hand, an elevator has a weight capacity, which an elevator operator can help to enforce. This greatly reduces the risk of accidents. It prevents the elevator from being overloaded with people and objects.
If you want to improve your home or company building, then elevators are one of the most practical options. It can increase worker productivity, building safety, and property value. Today, elevators can provide an uplifting experience like the first public elevator installed in New York City over 140 years ago.
