This type of lift setup with one lift serving the even floors and the other the odd floors used to be quite common in the Netherlands. It was a popular setup with 1960’s era council flats. The controller would be simple, without any call memory. After the early to mid 1970’s this setup gradually grew out of fashion.
Do you know what is the reason for such setup? Some believe it was done to reduce construction costs or for security reason. Nowadays it is deemed impractical because of several reasons (i.e. not disabled friendly, inefficient, etc.)
@ I think it was mainly done for construction cost reasons. In a setup like this the controller is a lot simpler, at least when relay logic is involved. Another benefit is that the stopping distance is greater, allowing slightly higher speed. In council housing cost is everything, a lot of flats where built with no more then 4 stories so that from a building code aspect they could be built without lifts. Lifts where pretty much only reserved for high rise buildings (4 stories or more) where they where required by the building code.
In life I see such doors in Spain, they remind me of those in Romania, it would be an elevator of a crazy company, from about the 70s and then they were modernized with Schindler Genericos, I do not know why there is elevator of even and odd plants, it is typical of the 70s
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the strangest door handle I’ve ever seen. Interesting elevators
Those are the biggest door handles I've ever seen so far.
This type of lift setup with one lift serving the even floors and the other the odd floors used to be quite common in the Netherlands. It was a popular setup with 1960’s era council flats. The controller would be simple, without any call memory. After the early to mid 1970’s this setup gradually grew out of fashion.
Do you know what is the reason for such setup? Some believe it was done to reduce construction costs or for security reason. Nowadays it is deemed impractical because of several reasons (i.e. not disabled friendly, inefficient, etc.)
@ I think it was mainly done for construction cost reasons. In a setup like this the controller is a lot simpler, at least when relay logic is involved. Another benefit is that the stopping distance is greater, allowing slightly higher speed. In council housing cost is everything, a lot of flats where built with no more then 4 stories so that from a building code aspect they could be built without lifts. Lifts where pretty much only reserved for high rise buildings (4 stories or more) where they where required by the building code.
In life I see such doors in Spain, they remind me of those in Romania, it would be an elevator of a crazy company, from about the 70s and then they were modernized with Schindler Genericos, I do not know why there is elevator of even and odd plants, it is typical of the 70s
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