Inspections
Solucore performs many types of elevator and escalator inspections including:
- Maintenance Inspections
- Technical audits and reviews
- Equipment condition surveys
- Accident investigations
- Due diligence inspections
- Reserve fund studies
- Construction acceptance inspections
Maintenance Inspections
The aims of our elevator and escalator maintenance inspections are five-fold, namely:
- To ensure that your elevator and escalator equipment is safe for use by the general public and your employees.
- To comply with your need to have twice yearly and/or yearly mandatory inspections of your elevators and escalators carried out by third parties.
- To be sure that your facilities are operating in your building in accordance with all statutory codes and regulations.
- To minimize your liability in the event of any unforeseen incident.
- To enable you to fulfil your insurance carriers’ policy requirements.
We use our innovative Soludex™ evaluation and benchmarking tool to assess and grade your current elevator and escalator maintenance system. This enables us to identify its strengths and weaknesses and to specify what steps can be taken by your elevator contractor to optimize performance leading to better safety and performance all round.
Technical Audits and Reviews
- Survey your building and how it is used
- Review how energy is consumed by each discrete elevator or escalator function (lighting, elevation, heaters, fans, exhaust units, stand-by mode, etc)
- Identify significant areas of energy waste
- Suggest ways to minimize energy consumption
- Identify areas of inefficiency
- Suggest ways to operate system more efficiently (ie, less waiting time, more direct transport to specific floors, etc)
- Suggest future capital investments that could be made to further modernize and improve systems.
Technical Audits and Reviews
The aim of Solucore Inc.’s audits is always tightly focused on providing baseline date and recommendations for upgrading your elevator and escalator components with a view to maximizing safety, efficiency and conserving energy.
During our elevator and escalator audits we:
- Survey your building and how it is used
- Review how energy is consumed by each discrete elevator or escalator function (lighting, elevation, heaters, fans, exhaust units, stand-by mode, etc)
- Identify significant areas of energy waste
- Suggest ways to minimize energy consumption
- Identify areas of inefficiency
- Suggest ways to operate system more efficiently (ie, less waiting time, more direct transport to specific floors, etc)
- Suggest future capital investments that could be made to further modernize and improve systems.
Equipment Condition Surveys
These are designed to shine the spotlight on the engineering components of your elevator and escalator systems to see that they are being adequately maintained and to highlight the areas that need to be serviced more frequently or even parts that need to be replaced.
We will also suggest ways in which you could:
- Modernize fundamental parts of your elevator and escalator systems to save energy
- Speed up transport time by making your systems more direct and efficient
- Change components to make the ride more comfortable (reduce vibration, reduce noise, better lighting, exhaust fans, less abrupt stopping and starting etc).
Our equipment condition surveys scrutinize all mechanical and electrical parts including gear, pulleys, bearings, sheaves, motors, mechanical switches, magnets, relay, carbon brushes (where still in use), and all other intrinsic parts.
Accident Investigations
When things go wrong you want to find out why so that you can take steps to prevent it happening again in the future.
Solucore independent elevator and escalator inspectors will be able to objectively review the state of your escalator and elevator equipment to find out why your system failed and whether all your mechanical components were being maintained to the best possible standards.
Our qualified and highly experienced technicians can also serve as expert witnesses in conflict resolutions between you and your elevator and escalator installation and/or maintenance company.
Accident Investigations
When things go wrong you want to find out why so that you can take steps to prevent it happening again in the future.
Solucore Inc.’s independent elevator and escalator inspectors will be able to objectively review the state of your escalator and elevator equipment to find out why your system failed and whether all your mechanical components were being maintained to the best possible standards.
Our qualified and highly experienced technicians can also serve as expert witnesses in conflict resolutions between you and your elevator and escalator installation and/or maintenance company.
Due Diligence Inspections by Solucore
Solucore due diligence inspections will provide you with the reassurance that your elevator and escalator systems are working safely and to the best of their potential for the protection and comfort of every person who uses your building, and that your vertical transportation systems are being maintained and serviced adequately.
During our due diligence inspections we will consider:
- Your system’s safety
- Age and degree of obsolescence of your equipment
- Compliance with legal codes and regulations
- Standards of maintenance currently being provided, and
- Your system’s ability to serve the needs of building users.
Our thorough and meticulous due diligence inspection procedures will also serve to highlight ways in which maintenance could be improved still further and even point out ways in which your systems could be made even more energy and time efficient, taking into account the needs of those who use your building.
In these inspections Solucore will provide you with all the information you need to make informed decisions regarding the costs and benefits of taking specific courses of action regarding your elevator and escalator maintenance and modernization programmes.
Reserve Fund Studies
Solucore reserve fund studies are designed to clarify the costs involved in non-routine modernization and renovation of your elevator and escalator systems and maintenance programmes so that you can systematically and strategically plan for your future investments. Our reserve fund studies will also give a likely time frame in which such modernizations and renovations will have to take place.
Reserve Fund Studies
Solucore reserve fund studies are designed to clarify the costs involved in non-routine modernization and renovation of your elevator and escalator systems and maintenance programmes so that you can systematically and strategically plan for your future investments. Our reserve fund studies will also give a likely time frame in which such modernizations and renovations will have to take place.
Construction Acceptance Inspections
Solucore is familiar with all the prerequisites of Construction Acceptance Inspections and will meticulously carry out such investigations to the letter so that you can be sure your elevator and escalator systems are safely and proficiently installed and operating in accordance with all legal codes and regulations and to their maximum efficiency.
For more information on Solucore inspections and review of escalator and elevator performance and maintenance, we invite you to contact us by:
Contact us:
(905) 206-0555
Email us at info@solucore.com
