This document specifies the safety rules related to passenger and goods/ passenger lifts installed in existing buildings where limitations enforced by certain building constraints mean that some requirements of EN 81-20:2020 cannot be met.
It addresses the following constraints and gives requirements for alternative solutions:
- existing perforate walls of the lift well
- reduction in available well are leading to reduced distance between car, counterweight or balancing weight
- counterweight or balancing weight in a separate existing well
- reduced building dimensions and clearances leading to:
- reductions in available space for headroom and pit
- reduced car roof balustrade dimensions
- reduced height of sill apron
- reduced height of machine and/ or pulley room
- reduced available area for access door/ trap door
- reduction in available height of landing doors.
This document is not applicable to lifts installed before the date of its publication.