Vertical Transportation Handbook

✍ Scribed by Strakosch, George R.; Caporale, Robert S.(eds.)

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 647
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This new edition of a one-of-a-kind handbook provides an essential updating to keep the book current with technology and practice. New coverage of topics such as machine-room-less systems and current operation and control procedures ensures that this revision maintains its standing as the premier general reference on vertical transportation. A team of new contributors has been assembled to shepherd the book into this new edition and provide the expertise to keep it up to date in future editions. A new copublishing partnership with Elevator World Magazine ensures that the quality of the revision is kept at the highest level.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Preface
• Table of Contents
1. The Essentials of Elevatoring
2. The Basis of Elevatoring a Building
3. Passenger Traffic Requirements
4. Incoming Traffic
5. Two-Way Traffic
6. Outgoing Traffic
7. Elevator Operation and Control
8. Space and Physical Requirements
9. Escalators and Moving Walks
10. Elevatoring Commercial Buildings
11. Elevatoring Residential Buildings
12. Elevatoring Institutional Buildings
13. Service and Freight Elevators
14. Nonconventional Elevators, Special Applications, and Environmental Considerations
15. Automated Materials-Handling Systems
16. Codes and Standards
17. Elevator Specifying and Contracting
18. Economics, Maintenance, and Modernization
19. Traffic Studies and Performance Evaluation Using Simulation
20. The Changing Modes of Horizontal and Vertical Transportation
• Appendix: Literature on Elevators and Escalators
• Index of Tables and Charts
• Index of Examples
Subject Index