Lift consultants for housing improvements
Who are we?
Cundall is a global, multi-disciplinary consultancy delivering sustainable engineering and design solutions across the built environment. We operate across 28 locations with over 1200 consulting engineers and designers who are empowered to act with flexibility and agility in response to the local market conditions and practices. The quality of our people is one of our biggest strengths. Our technical experts have ample experience working in diverse sectors like science and technology, higher education, industrial, residential and many more.
Our vertical transportation services
Our team is a one-stop shop for all your vertical transport consultation and design needs. Cundall offers expert advice on all aspects of managing lifts, from the changes to the UK phone network to DDA compliance and every subject in-between.
- Specification works for new or modernised lifts (to include all building enabling works and traffic calculations) through to procurement, review of tender submissions and site project management
- Improving and advising on the firefighting and evacuation capabilities of your lift portfolio.
- Auditing of the lift maintenance provisions, auditing LOLER reports, management of your lift contractors, compliance support, safety, and quality assurance of all associated lift works.
- Project management including CDM 2015 Principal Designer duties, including support with the Building Safety Act 2022.
- Improving and advising on sustainability for your lift portfolio.
- Assistance with ad hoc advice, surveys, contract negotiation and value engineering, bespoke specifications for maintenance or refurbishment, accident investigation and poor reliability analysis.
We are all about saving you time, money, and stress. We provide clear and easy to understand expert advice, formulating impartial and independent solutions that are tailored to you as a valued partner, managing your lifts so you do not have to. In many cases, our fees are covered by cost savings made within the work we complete. Fundamentally, we will ensure the safety and wellbeing of your residents will be our priority. Our team has extensive experience working with social and public housing clients.
Get in touch to discuss your vertical transportation requirements.
“I am extremely pleased to note that at no one time has Cundall failed to deliver the service within schedule; they have always been nothing but professional and respectful, making them a dependable, honest, and trustworthy partner.”
Mike Richmond, Wythenshawe Community Housing Group
(Left) Inside Wythenshawe lift and
(Right) Lobby view of Wythenshawe lifts
(Left) Lobby view of 2 lifts at from Wigan project
(Right) Birds eye view of the lift shaft from Wigan project
London Borough of Hackney
Cundall were engaged to assist the London Borough of Hackney (LBH) develop a new lift maintenance contract, covering in excess of 600 lifts of various types, maintained by utilising two lift contractors. Part of our involvement was an audit programme to identify the worst performing lifts and to produce a technical specification to form the basis to either replace or refurbish the assets.
After initial meetings, we identified the main areas of work and set up our team to produce all of the different pieces of work. An exercise was undertaken, utilising information received from LBH to identify 60 of the worst performing lifts. While one consultant produced the maintenance specification documents, two other consultants completed the lift surveys of the 60 lifts from which 39 were identified as requiring immediate works. The surveying consultants then produced the detailed technical specifications for the lifts.
We also offer CDM Principal Designer (PD) services, and therefore with our wider mechanical and engineering consultancy base, even complex replacement or refurbishment lift projects could be handled fully in-house from inception to completion.
(Left) Orange and blue coloured lift machine
(Right) The inside of a lift controller
