Hoistway Construction and Rail Installation

How elevators are installed in a new hoistway, followed through the rail stage of a 30-storey Vancouver tower: the installation sequence and the Technical Safety BC permit, reading layout drawings, surveying the hoistway as built, wire and laser plumbing, T-section guide rails and fishplates, bracket spacing and anchorage in concrete and steel, stacking and aligning car and counterweight rails, building compression and sliding clips, buffers and pit equipment, counterweight frames and fillers, the car sling and platform, machine-room-less machine spaces, construction elevators and jump lifts, and a capstone installation checklist, with WorkSafeBC fall protection, silica and overhead safety throughout.

ELV-120 12 lessons · 3 h 39 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon

Offered by HSM University · Elevators

This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.

What you'll learn

Describe the installation sequence for a traction elevator, the division of work with the general contractor, and the Technical Safety BC permit and WorkSafeBC requirements that frame it
Read elevator layout drawings, including the plan view, elevation, details and reactions, and check that the parts of a layout fit the clear hoistway
Survey a hoistway from reference lines and benchmarks, find the tight floor, and report out-of-tolerance conditions
Set templates and wire or laser plumb lines, choose the line positions to balance clearances, and keep the lines accurate and protected
Identify T-section guide rails by designation and nominal weight, explain rail joints and fishplates, and receive, store and handle rails correctly
Lay out rail brackets to the layout's maximum spacing, fasten them to concrete and steel with the specified anchors, and check an anchor's share of load
Stack, align and gauge car and counterweight rails, check and dress joints, and allow for building compression with sliding clips and a top gap
Explain the types and purpose of buffers, calculate oil buffer stroke from speed, and install buffers and pit equipment to the layout runbys
Build and fill a counterweight frame safely, calculate the filler count, and square and plumb a car sling and platform to the rails
Describe machine rooms and machine-room-less machine spaces, calculate the static loads at the top of an MRL hoistway, and set an MRL machine
Explain the rules for construction elevators and how a jump lift climbs with a building, and plan jumps from the concrete schedule
Prepare and run a rail installation checklist with hold points, record corrections, and compare crew-hours with the estimate

Course content

12 lessons · 3 h 39 min total · final exam

1 Installation sequence and the mechanic's role 19 min · quiz
2 Reading elevator layout drawings 18 min · quiz
3 Hoistway survey and as-built checks 18 min · quiz
4 Plumbing the hoistway 18 min · quiz
5 Guide rail types and materials 18 min · quiz
6 Rail bracket layout and anchorage 18 min · quiz
7 Setting and aligning car and counterweight rails 18 min · quiz
8 Buffers and pit equipment 18 min · quiz
9 Counterweight frame and fillers; first look at the car sling 18 min · quiz
10 Machine spaces and setting machine-room-less equipment 18 min · quiz
11 Jump lifts and temporary construction elevators 18 min · quiz
12 Capstone: the rail installation checklist for Quayside car 2 20 min · quiz
E Final exam 20 questions

Requirements

Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.