The most expensive lift mistake is made before the building goes up. IET consultancy works out how many lifts or escalators your building needs, and how to size, speed and group them for peak traffic — and how that fits your plans, budget and the codes that apply. Independent advice, before you commit.
Every building has a vertical-transport problem hidden in its drawings: how many people arrive at peak, how long they will tolerate waiting, and what the structure, budget and codes allow. Answer it early and the building works; answer it late and you inherit a lobby queue — or capacity you paid for and never needed.
IET consultancy answers it with numbers. We run traffic analyses against the building occupancy and use, then recommend the number of lifts or escalators, their capacity, speed and grouping to suit — and put it in a specification your architect, engineer and contractor can build from. Our advice is independent of what we sell: if two lifts serve the building better than three, we say two.
We calculate peak-hour traffic density and set, in numbers, the expected waiting time and the number of people the lifts carry — clear figures you can hold us to.
The number of lifts or escalators, their capacity, speed and grouping, set to what the building actually needs.
Shaft, pit and headroom requirements, coordinated with your architect and written into a buildable specification.
Realistic cost ranges early, so vertical transport is planned within the budget rather than discovered in it.
Designs reviewed against the approved standards before anything is ordered.
We prepare the tender documents and review supplier bids with an independent eye, so you compare like with like and choose with confidence.
We start with how the building will be used: floors, occupancy, peak times and budget.
We run the calculations and test configurations until waiting times and capacity work.
The best configuration becomes a coordinated, code-compliant specification your team builds from.
We stay available through the tender, supplier selection and installation until the system runs as designed.
As early as possible — ideally while the building is still on paper. Shaft positions, structure and lobby layout all follow the vertical-transport design, and changing them on a drawing is far cheaper than changing them on site. If the building is already designed or built, the study still pays off: it tells you what the system can deliver and what needs fixing.
It models how people move through your building at its busiest — how many arrive, from where, and how long they wait for a lift. The output is numbers: waiting times, handling capacity and the configuration needed to achieve them. It replaces guesswork and catalogue defaults with figures specific to your building.
The smaller the building, the shorter the study — but the decision still matters. A six-storey apartment block choosing between one lift and two is making a decision it will live with for thirty years. For small projects the study is light and quick; for towers and complexes it is detailed — either way the building is sized on evidence.
Tell us about the project — the floors, the use and where it has got to — and we will tell you what the study should look at.
Qatar Office
200 Corniche Street, Old Salata Area, Regency Business Center Building, Doha, Qatar
+974 4366689
info@ietsolutions.co
International Engineering & Trade Co.
Elevators, escalators and automated parking — supplied, installed and maintained in Qatar.
Serving the Qatari market since 2004
200 Al Corniche Street, Old Salata Area, Regency Business Centre, Doha, Qatar
