Let TÜV SÜD’s lifts and escalator experts make your future constructions a success
Let TÜV SÜD’s lifts and escalator experts make your future constructions a success
TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman is Europe’s leading independent lift consultancy. We provide a complete range of lift, escalator and façade access services tailored to your individual needs. We are proud to serve and manage over 21,000 lifts across Europe.
No matter the size of the project, we are committed to delivering quality and cost-effective services which our clients trust and value. We have the expertise to tackle even the most complex projects. You can be assured of our independence, and have complete confidence that our advice is appropriate and impartial.
Ready to discuss your lift, escalator, or façade access project? Our expert lift consultants are here to help. Please complete our contact form, and we'll be in touch with you shortly.
Whether we’re working on a high-rise commercial office in London, a residential development, a high-profile football stadium, a flagship retail development, a hospital or supporting one of the UK’s largest affordable housing groups, we are committed to delivering quality and cost-effective lift consultancy services to our clients. Our experience goes beyond the UK, and we’ve been privileged to work on the Burj Al Arab luxury hotel in Dubai, as well as other projects in the Middle East, Far East and across the globe. With over 40 years’ experience, we have the expertise to find solutions for even the most complex projects such as vertical transportation for new buildings, lift refurbishment, replacement, maintenance management and compliance support.
Our specialist lift and escalator consultancy services include:
By collaborating with the project architect and the design team, we’ll make sure that our designs seamlessly integrate, ensuring effective traffic flows, energy efficiency, material aesthetics and cost effectiveness.
A well-designed building should have enough elevator capacity to operate efficiently and ensure smooth and seamless movement of the expected building population. TÜV SÜD offers services from pre-tender to commercial review to help you achieve that including:
Find out more about our lift and escalator design and planning services
EXPERT ASSESSMENT
We look at your lifts or systems to find the cause of recurring faults. We recommend short-term and long-term measures and provide a framework for the repair costs to help you improve the quality, availability and lifecycle of your lift.
Find out more about our lift maintenance management services
Lifts and Escalators Asset Management
Following new installation or refurbishment of equipment it is necessary to ensure the equipment is properly managed to ensure that any investment returns the maximum value; prolongs equipment life, ensures ongoing equipment performance is maintained and that equipment operates safely and reliably over its design life. Asset Management is the systematic approach to managing all of the necessary activities associated with the equipment.
Find out more about our lift maintenance management services
Modernisation and refurbishment services identify the lifts and escalators in your portfolio that may require modernisation or refurbishment. It also describes the measures necessary to eliminate or minimise existing dangers in a lift. Our services include:
Find out more about our lift maintenance management services
From inspection and witness testing of escalators and lifts at the commissioning stage through to thorough examination and maintenance management support during the life of the equipment, you can be assured that all the necessary statutory obligations are met, and that equipment remains safe and delivers the specified performance over its design life.
Find out more about our lifts and escalators compliance support services
Lift Maintenance Management
Provide specialist knowledge, and support services to those who hold the responsibility of guaranteeing that the lift systems inside their property meet the standards of which makes them comply with statutory requirements. Working on your behalf, we record, assess, initiate and check all processes in your lifts. If a service you’ve been offered is required, we can negotiate to secure a reasonable price. Maintenance management prevents unnecessary repairs and offers a qualified assessment. For better economic planning, we work out a budget proposal that covers several years. We also document all processes in our database for a supported elevator management system. The services include:
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Design bespoke façade access solutions to enable easy cleaning and maintenance of your building’s façade. From the inception phase to practical completion, our façade access consultants combine technical expertise with a practical understanding of the built environment which means our advice is always focused on delivering your project objectives.
Find out more about our façade access system design services
We provide independent, periodic thorough examination of your passenger, goods, service, platform and mobility access equipment to ensure that your lifts are compliant
Find out more about our LOLER inspections
TÜV SÜD Lift Manager is an independent predictive maintenance and condition monitoring service that leverages on IoT know-how and TÜV SÜD's lift domain to support your lift operation and lift service maintenance.
Find out more about our smart lifts service
Create a well-defined maintenance and inspection programme to help you control the entire process while protecting you from risks and liability.
Find out more about our cranes and machinery services
“We have engaged Tim Piggott of TÜV SÜD for several projects at the College because we trust his independent, impartial, expert advice for our lift related matters. He takes time to explain the options and help us decide on the best solutions and strategy to achieve our goals.”
Andrew Gair, Estates Manager at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
“We have used TÜV SÜD on a number of occasions for independent expert advice, which we have found to be both honest and comprehensive. They have always demonstrated a professional approach to problem solving with a high degree of flexibility to changing client requests and alternative strategies.”
Matt Dye, Technical Services Manager, Telereal Trillium, London
"I have been working with TÜV SÜD for the past 12 years and have always found them to be very professional, helpful and proactive in all aspects of their work. The consultants are all very approachable and always happy to help out. TÜV SÜD have helped with the design, specification, procurement and delivery of replacement lifts in various buildings at the University, with most recent the lifts in Psychology and Biology E which were both handed over within the project time frame with little snags, this can only be accountable to Paul Babington’s professional Management of the project. I have recently engaged TÜV SÜD services for providing maintenance management for the servicing of our lifts. This has seen the University save thousands of pounds, plus many hours of my time from them reviewing quotes, comparing against what is out there on the market and providing alternate quotations. Paul Babington has also assisted me with re-configuring our auto dialler system and audited our Evacuation lift policy from which we found many holes/shortfalls in our policies. Without Paul’s assistance this would not have been possible. Overall I am more than happy with the standard of service provided by and would not hesitate in recommending them."
Chris Stanley, Mechanical Engineer, University of York
“We have been delighted by the hard work and dedication TÜV SÜD has demonstrated in supporting our ambition to achieve 100% KPIs each month.”
Judith Wilkinson, Property Safety Officer at Orbit
Read the Orbit case study on how we improved LOLER compliance for the affordable housing group
Please complete our contact form and one of our lift consultants will be happy to discuss your project with you.
By choosing to work with our lift consultants, you will benefit from independent and impartial advice. Because we don’t sell lifts or other products, there is no conflict of interest and you know that our goal is to help you achieve the best solution for your situation.
Our lift consultancy covers the whole of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and we have regional offices in:
TÜV SÜD also have a team of international lift consultants and engineers who have worked around the world on projects such as the Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai, the KAFD Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, OMRAN HQ in Muscat, Oman and Vrindavan Chandrodaya Mandir in India. Our international offices are in:
TÜV SÜD can assist you with all types of vertical transportation equipment which moves people or goods between floors including:
The main difference is that a lift consultant is independent and is not selling lifts or other products. Whereas a lift contractor is there to sell you a product or maintenance service and so their advice might focus on the products they can sell rather than what is best for the client.
According to the Health and Safety Executive:
“Unless there is an 'examination scheme' specifying other intervals, thorough examinations should be conducted every:
Nottingham City Homes appointed TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman, to carry out technical surveys of all six lifts serving their high-rise tower block located above the Victoria Shopping Centre in Nottingham.
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