Elevator test tower

A test tower for elevators (also: elevator test tower; Elevator Research Tower ) is a tower which serves as a functional building an elevator manufacturers and engineering companies in the grounds for testing new types of elevators and technologies, as well as the elevator research. Similar to the ever higher skyscrapers built, communication and Aussichtstürmem also the elevator research storms ever higher. The still possible height of new buildings depends not least on reliable and complex lift systems as high-speed elevators at large heights and as a distributor lifts on floor blocks from without the ever increasing Rekordhochbauten are not possible. This affects not only people lifts, but increasingly also lifts that can quickly provide you with a high payload of the many stories have.

• 2.1 List of test towers
• 2.2 List of test equipment Subtag

Lift test equipment

Test towers

Elevator manufacturer

In particular, the large elevator and engineering companies such as Otis, Schindler, Kone, Mitsubishi, Hyundai ( Hyundai Elevator Company ), Hitachi, etc. operate such well-known test towers in height.

With the completion of the 213.5 -meter-high G1Tower the company Hitachi continues in April 2010, the current highest Elevator Research Tower in operation. The built-in to the tower elevator system is, among other tests are used for a transport system that allows a rated speed of 1080 meters per minute ( almost 65 km / h) is to be achieved. The lighthouse also for research and development of air pressure-tight and controlled cabins, as well as an elevator system to transport large loads of five tons at high speeds will serve up to 600 meters per minute. In December 2010, a 172.6 -meter research tower in Shanghai was completed by Hitachi, which is the highest elevator test tower in the People's Republic of China.

Component manufacturers

Also elevator test towers also manufacturer of elevator components in operation, such as the lift sensor components manufacturers Cedes in Switzerland, which takes over for other component manufacturers order tests: So Cedes was in 2007 for Hilti, a manufacturer of fastening systems, works, for research the behavior and improvement of the assembly anchorages for the rail bracket to the shaft walls.

Test facilities Subtag

No elevator test towers, but also lift test plants with high heads are those that are set up in manholes former abandoned mines. Such a system operates the elevator manufacturer Kone in Lohja (Finland ) with a depth of 333 meters and reaches a larger head than the highest ever test tower, the G1Tower, will be possible.

Lists of elevator testing facilities worldwide

List of test towers

List of test equipment Subtag

Evidence

• Hitachi developed the fastest elevator in the world, 1 February 2010. Accessed on February 9, 2010.
• Tallest tower elevator opens, JoongAng Daily on April 16, 2009. Accessed on February 9, 2010 (English ).
• History of our employees Newspapers: The World's Largest Shibayama Otis test tower. In: employee newspaper " Otis Shimbun" of Nippon Otis, April 10, 1998 Republished in Otis History.. Accessed on February 9, 2010.
• Otis test towers in Bristol Research Center in Connecticut and the Otis Test Tower Shibayama. Accessed on February 9, 2010.
• Website of the National Lift Tower (english): research, training, testing, and telecommunications tower. Accessed on February 9, 2010.
• Cedes -News: Hilti in the tower, August 2007 Retrieved on February 9, 2010..
• Anniversary brochure of Cedes AG (PDF, 489 kB). Accessed on February 9, 2010.