15th February 2014

Architect Hafeez Contractor

29, Bank Street,
Flora Fountain,
Mumbai

Kind Attention: Ms. Apoorva Sharma

Ref: Final VT analysis fort Residential Towers for ICC in Mumbai

Dear Apoorva,

Based on your latest inputs vide your mail dated 10th February, advising revised final design of both Towers, please
find below the results of the analysis carried out.

DESIGN CRITERIA

There are two key components when assessing the quality of lift service and design. These are called ‘average
waiting interval’ (AWI) and 5 minute handling capacity (HC).
To ensure common understanding, average waiting interval and five minute handling capacity are defined as follows:

Average Waiting Interval: Is the time increment, in seconds, between lift departures from the main loading floor,
averaged over five minutes of heavy traffic.

Handling Capacity: Is the number of persons moved during the same five minutes of heavy traffic use to measure
average interval. Handling capacity can be expressed as the number of persons moved or as the percentage of total
building population.

Traffic Pattern
Traffic patterns in residential buildings are two-way. That is, there are an equal, or nearly equal, number of persons
travelling up at the same time as persons travelling down. Our studies for the residential buildings are based on two-
way traffic patterns. The norms indicated above are as per international standards.

The design criteria for residential buildings, is not nearly as stringent as for commercial buildings. Occupants of
residential buildings expect to wait longer for lift service than in a commercial office building.

Lerch Bates Private Limited

2 Ajanta Apartments
75 Colaba Road, Mumbai 400005, India
T 91-22-22153740 . F 91-22-22153726 • www.lerchbates.com
 For the purpose of this study, we have considered peak period from 7.00 a.m. to 10.00a.m. in the morning
whereas in the evening it stretches from 5.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.

There may be several mini-peaks within these time periods.

The following tables summarize average interval and handling capacity design criteria for the residential buildings:

TABLE 2 – Lift Design Criteria – Premium Residential Buildings

Service Level Average Interval Handling Capacity

Excellent <40 Seconds >8%
Good 40-45 Seconds 7-8%
Fair 45-50 Seconds 6-7%
Poor > 50 Seconds < 6%

Assumptions—

Following assumptions were made while analyzing the above data.

1. Car and Hoistway Entrance size of 1100 mm x 2400 mm.

2. Tall car with a car height of 2800 mm.
3. Spacious cars to provide luxury and comfort to the passengers

Tower One ICC Wing 1

Residential Unit Population Table

Unit Type No. of Units Estimated persons/Unit Total Population

3G 42 6 42 x 6 = 252
4G 49 8 49 x 8 = 392
2G - 5 --
Penthouse 2 10 2 x 10 =20

Total = 664 say700 persons

Estimated Population - 700 persons.

Floors served— G, CH, 1- 53

Lift Travel- 200 mts.

Car capacity considered 20 persons.

Average
No. of Speed Waiting %age Service
Lift Pop’n Floors served
cars (mps) Interval HC Rating
(secs)
 4.0 56.9 7.5 Poor/fair

4
5.0 54.1 7.9 Fair/good

6.0 53 8. Fair/good
700 As Above
Good/excelle
4.0 44.8 9.4
nt

5 5.0 44 9.9 Good/excellent

6.0 43.4 10.1 Good/excellent

Conclusion – Five lifts with a speed of 4.0 mps when grouped together would provide Good rated service.

We, therefore, recommend the above option.

Tower One ICC Wing 2

Residential Unit Population Table

Unit Type No. of Units Estimated persons/Unit Total Population

3G 49 6 49 x 6 = 294
4G 49 8 49 x 8 = 392
2G - 5 --
Penthouse 2 10 2 x 10 =20

Total = 706 say 700 persons

Estimated Population - 700 persons.

Floors served— G, CH, 1- 53

Lift Travel- 200 mts.

Car capacity considered 20 persons.

Average
No. of Speed %age Service
Lift Pop’n Floors served Waiting
cars (mps) HC Rating
Interval
 (secs)

4.0 56.9 7.5 Poor/fair

4
5.0 54.1 7.9 Fair/good

6.0 53 8. Fair/good
700 As Above
Good/excelle
4.0 44.8 9.4
nt

5 5.0 44 9.9 Good/excellent

6.0 43.4 10.1 Good/excellent

Conclusion – Five lifts with a speed of 4.0 mps when grouped together would provide Good rated service.

We, therefore, recommend the above option

Tower Two ICC Wing 1

Residential Unit Population Table

Unit Type No. of Units Estimated persons/Unit Total Population

3D 48 6 48 x 6 = 288
4D 104 8 104 X 8 = 832
2D 14 2 14 x 2 = 28
Penthouse 2 10 2 x 10 = 20

Total population = 1168 say 1170

Estimated Population - 1170 persons.

Floors served— G, CH, 1- 60

Lift Travel- 220 mts.

Car capacity considered 20 persons.

Average
No. of Speed Waiting %age Service
Lift Pop’n Floors served
cars (mps) Interval HC Rating
(secs)
 4.0 70.1 5.2 poor

4
5.0 68 5.3 poor

6.0 67.7 5.4 poor

4.0 56.1 6.5 Poor/fair

1170 As Above 5 5.0 54.4 6.7 fair

6.0 54.1 6.7 fair

4.0 45 7.7 good

6 5.0 44.3 8 Good/excellent

6.0 44 8 Good/excellent

Conclusion – Six lifts with a speed of 4.0 mps when grouped together would provide Good rated service.

We, therefore, recommend the above option.

Tower Two ICC Wing 2

Residential Unit Population Table

Unit Type No. of Units Estimated persons/Unit Total Population

3D 56 6 56 x 6 = 336
4D 112 8 112 X 8 = 896
2D -- 2 --
Penthouse 2 10 2 x 10 = 20

Total population = 1252 say 1250

Estimated Population - 1250 persons.

Floors served— G, CH, 1- 60

 Lift Travel- 220 mts.

Car capacity considered 20 persons.

Average
No. of Speed Waiting %age Service
Lift Pop’n Floors served
cars (mps) Interval HC Rating
(secs)

4.0 75.9 5.1 poor

4
5.0 74.2 5.2 poor

6.0 74.1 5.2 poor

4.0 60.7 6.3 Poor/fair

5 5.0 59.4 6.5 Poor/fair

6.0 59.3 6.5 Poor/fair

1250 As Above
4.0 50.6 7.6 Fair/good

6 5.0 49.5 7.8 Fair/good

6.0 49.4 7.8 Fair/good

Good/excelle
4.0 43.4 8.8
nt

7 5.0 42.4 9.1 Good/excellent

6.0 42.4 9.1 Good/excellent

Conclusion – Seven lifts with a speed of 4.0 mps instead of six as planned when grouped together would
provide Good rated service.

We, therefore, recommend the above option.

Our recommendations for an individual Tower are highlighted in the respective table.

Though these lifts will not open at podium levels, we would recommend provision of regular lift entrances
which should be blocked from the controller in the machine-room and can be operated in future if required.
In case of non-provision of the entrances at podium levels, it would be necessary to provide an emergency
opening at every 11 mts. of a blind liftwell.

In order to provide a VIP service to the pent-house Residents, we would recommend Elevator Management
System (E.M.S.) which is designed to control and manage the lift services within the building. By using an
E.M.S. it is possible to provide VIP service by pulling out one car from the lift group whenever required and
dedicating it for the use of the VIP.

Parking Lifts ---

The adequacy of lift service is related to the length of time passengers wait for service and the ability of the lift
system to handle people as they require service. Following acceptable standards are indicated below for a better
understanding.

 
Design Criteria (Car Parking) 
 
 
Service Rating  Average Interval Handling Capacity 
Excellent  <45 seconds > 10% 
Good  45‐50seconds 8‐10% 
Fair  50‐60 seconds 7‐8% 
Poor  > 60 seconds < 7% 

Analysis for Parking Lifts of ICC Towers ---

Tower I & II

Total Parking slots

Total Parking Slots 725
Diversity Factor 0.5
Car occupancy considered 1/car.
Lift Population 725 x 0.5 = 580 persons
Travel Distance = 15 mts.

Average
No. of Lift Floors Speed Waiting %age
Service Rating
Lifts Pop’n served (mps) Interval HC
(secs)
1.6 44.7 12
2
580 B3-B1,G,CH excellent
1.75 44.6 12

Observations and Recommendations—

The above analysis shows that the provision of three lifts having a capacity of 15 persons @ 1.6 mps for both the
Towers in the parking area would be sufficient for vertical transportation of the people.

However, considering the premium status of the building and the apartments, a majority of cars are expected to be
driven by the chauffers who are expected to use service lifts for the internal transportation. In such a case, the
analysis is carried out as the parking lift population considered as 50%.

Our recommendations with the above assumption are highlighted in the tables below.

Tower I

Total Parking slots

Total Parking Slots 810
Diversity Factor 0.5
Car occupancy considered 1/car.
Lift Population 810 x 0.5 = 405 persons

Average
No. of Lift Floors Speed Waiting %age
Service Rating
Lifts Pop’n served (mps) Interval HC
(secs)
1.6 43.3 10.3
2 B4-B1,G,P1- 1.75 42.5 10.5
405 EXCELLENT
P3,CH
2.5 40.5 11

Conclusion – Two MRL lifts in a group @ 1.6 mps would provide EXCELLENT service and are recommended.

These lifts will require a minimum overhead of 4500 mm as per the present statutory requirement.

Service Lifts-

Service lifts provided per Tower are sufficient as there are no specific parameters for these lifts except that these lifts
should have deeper cars to accommodate heavy furniture. We notice that few of these lifts do not have deeper cars.
In such a case it would be difficult to handle the heavy and bigger objects if the lift lobby is also inadequate.

We would, therefore, request you to review the locations and dimensions of the service lifts.

Service lifts will also serve as Fireman’s lifts and per code requirement will serve all the floors and comply with the
relevant rules.

Since these lifts will also be designated as Fireman’s lifts, they should have a speed of 4.0 mps to meet the code
requirement.

 
Apart from the above, the pent houses will be provided with Home lift for the internal travel. 
 
This lift will work on 230V, single ph, 50 Hz power supply and will require a pit of 500 mm. The lift will have a speed of 0.2 mps 
with a car dimension of 1000 mm (w) x 1150 mm (d) which will require a lift‐shaft of 1400 mm (w)x 1500 mm (d). 
 
However, Home lift of most of the lift companies except Thyssen Krupp have restriction of maximum three stops as against the 
requirement of four in the pent‐house. 
 
Alternatively,  we  need  to  provide  for  a  machine  roomless  lift  which  requires  a  pit  of  minimum  1400  mm.  to  accommodate 
buffers. 
 
 
Trust  this  provides  the  design  information  of  vertical  transportation  system  for  your  building.    We  suggest  all  design  team 
members review this report and offer comments on our assumptions, which are all clearly noted. We are happy to continue 
our analysis as the project develops or new information is provided.  
 
 
Thanks and Regards,

Prashant Kulkarni
Director & Senior Consultant
Lerch Bates Pvt. Ltd.
2,Ajanta,11th. Floor
75,Colaba Road
Mumbai 400005,India

Tel:91-22 22153740;Fax 91-22-22153726

Mobile: 91-9892900600
www.lerchbates.com