Elevator Education 301: Emerging Technologies & Sustainability
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA
This course discusses opportunities for incorporating sustainability in the vertical transportation industry. The learning objectives for this class are:
- Advances in vertical transportation including energy and space saving alternatives through design and dispatching
- Emerging technologies that allow buildings and cities to rethink horizontal transportation from moving walkways to horizontal elevators
- Digital trends making the elevator service and maintenance industry more efficient and sustainable
- New elevator trends addressing material health and sustainability and specifically how elevators can help with LEED v4 Materials and Resources credits
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Elevator Education 201: Designing for Mid-Rise Buildings
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA
This presentation is part two of a three-part training, designed to give viewers a basic understanding of elevators and mid-rise building solutions. The learning objectives for this class are:
- Obtain a basic understanding of vertical and horizontal transportation
- Learn key aspects for getting the best combination and type of elevator for your mid-rise building
- Gather details about elevators specifically designed for mid-rise buildings
- Become better equipped to choose the proper elevator for your mid-rise building
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Elevator Education 101: Designing for Low-Rise Buildings
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA
This presentation is part one of a three-part training, designed to give viewers
a basic understanding of elevators and low-rise building solutions. The learning
objectives for this class are:
- Obtain a basic understanding of vertical transportation
- Learn key aspects for getting the best combination and type of elevator for your low-rise building
- Gather details about elevators specifically designed for low-rise buildings
- Become better equipped to choose the proper elevator for your low-rise building
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Occupant Evacuation Operation
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 LU hour
Description: This course is designed to give attendees an overview of what Occupant Evacuation Operation (OEO) is. Specific scenarios, benefits and code requirements will be an important part of this training
- Have a brief history of the development of OEO and the reason it is being implemented.
- Learn the specifics on how the OEO process works, including how to put OEO evacuation in place and the steps needed to evacuate quickly and efficiently.
- Gain an understanding of the role that Variable Message Signs (VMS) play during an OEO evacuation and how they are central to helping tenants get out safely.
- Have details on how the current code has been revised to work with OEO and the specifics on what is required to implement.
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Elevators in Existing Buildings: Sustainable Applications
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA (HSW, SD) 1 GBCI (O+M Specific)
Old elevator technology in existing buildings can account for up to 8% of a building’s energy. This course looks at how this key building system can contribute to a project’s sustainability and how a modernization could help you achieve LEED points for your EB:O&M project. The learning objectives for this class are:
- Explain six key advances that are helping elevators save energy.
- Describe how elevators can contribute to improved indoor and outdoor environmental quality over their full life cycle.
- Discuss how elevators can and cannot help achieve LEED points.
- Describe what to look for in a sustainable elevator company.
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Escalators 101
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA
This presentation is designed to give a basic understanding of escalators. The learning objectives for this class are:
- Understanding Different Classifications of Escalators
- Basic Parts and Terms Used in Escalators
- Code Requirement
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Dual car systems
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA, 1 HSW
This presentation provides an entirely new solution for the saving space in buildings. The learning objectives for this course are:
- Explain the challenge that comes with traditional elevator systems: net usable area, vertical transportation in very tall buildings, sky lobby transfer stops and other problems.
- Explain the reasoning for the TWIN elevator system: traffic analysis, performance requirements, ride time, dispatching and other advantages.
- TWIN advantages and characteristics over the double-decker elevator system and configurations.
- Details of safety chain with TWIN: Intelligent allocation of calls, monitoring of minimum safety distances, emergency stop function and automatic engagement of safety gear.
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Low-Rise Machine Room-Less Elevators
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA
This presentation is designed to give attendees an overview of what a low-rise elevator is, the evolution of the machine room and more detailed information regarding the different types of MRL’s. The learning objectives for this class are:
- Detail what exactly a “low-rise” elevator is and the factors that are used to describe this type of elevator.
- Explain the different types of machine room configurations currently in existence, and the differences between what some call “machine room-less” and what it really means.
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Traction and Hydraulic Machine Room-Less Overview. Detailed overview of the sections of the Traction MRL:
- Different machine supports, cable deflection, overhead and pit requirements, counterweights and rails, as well as limitations of cab finishes and the Hydraulic MRL.
- Machine and jack configuration, hydraulic fluid, overhead and pit requirements.
- Direct comparison of Low-Rise MRL Elevators: overhead and pit depths, speed, cab finishes, noise and ride quality, LCA, LCC and EPD, and energy usage.
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Elevators, Sustainability and LEED
Class Time: 1 hour, Learning Credits: 1 AIA, 1 HSW & 1GBCI
This course reviews how a key building system – elevators – can contribute to a project’s sustainability and to obtaining LEED credits. The learning objectives for this class are:
- Explain five key advances that are helping elevators save energy.
- Describe how elevators can contribute to improved indoor and outdoor environmental quality over their full life cycle.
- Discuss where elevators can and cannot help achieve LEED points.
- Describe what to look for in a sustainable elevator company.
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