Order of Engineers and Architects

New Lebanese Standards

Related to LIFTS

NL EN 81standards

Habib Srour
Purpose

 9 new Lebanese standards related to lifts

were released during the year 2015

 This presentation is intended to provide

awareness and gives brief on the scope and
contents of those standards
NL EN 81 Family of Standards
NL EN81
Family of
standards

NL EN81-7X
NL EN81-4X
NL EN81-2X NL EN81-3X Particular
Special lift for NL EN81-5X NL EN81-8X
Lifts for transport Lifts for transport applications
transport of person Evaluations Existing Lifts
of persons , goods of goods only persons and
and goods
goods
50: 2015
1: 2011 70: 2015 80: 2011
40: 2015 Examinations,
3(0): 2011 Accessibility of Improvement of
- Electric Lifts Stairlift & Inclined Calculations &
Service Lifts Persons with Safety of Existing
lifting platform Tests of Lift
Impaired Mobility Lifts
Components

82: 2015
31: 2015 41: 2015
2: 2011 Accessibility
Accessible Goods Vertical Lifting
- Hydraulic Litfs Improvement of
Only Lifts Platforms
Existing Lifts

20: 2015
Passenger and
goods passenger
lifts

21: 2015
Passenger lifts in
existing buildings

22: 2015
Passenger lifts,
inclined
New Standard Structure
 0- Introduction
 1- Scope
 2- Normative references
 3- Terms and definitions
 4- List of significant hazards
 5- Safety Requirements
 6- Verification
 7- Information for use
 Annexes: Informative, Normative
Amendments related to NL
 EC Type Examination Certificate for the lift as
a set

 Reference to Other Standards

 Languages of the information

NL EN 81-20 & 50
Goods & Passenger Lifts
NL EN 81-20 / 50 in brief
 Replaces EN 81-1 and EN
81-2

 EN 81-20 defines the

technical requirements for
elevator construction

 EN 81-50 provides the

framework for design and
testing of elevator
components
Requirements related
to Building
 5.2- Well, machinery
spaces and pulley
rooms *

 5.3- Landing doors

and car doors

 5.4- Car,
counterweight and
balancing weight
Mechanical (1)
 5.5- Suspension means,
compensation means
and related protection
means

 5.6- Precautions against

free fall, excessive
speed, unintended car
movement and creeping
of the car
Mechanical (2)

 5.7- Guide rails

 5.8- Buffers

 5.9- Lift machinery and

associated equipment
Electrical

 5.10- Electric
installations and
appliances

 5.11- Protection against

electric faults; failure
analysis; electric safety
devices

 5.12- Controls - Final

limit switches - Priorities
Headroom and pit requirements
EN81-1 and EN81-2
0.035 * V2
 Safety related
to top clearance

0.035 * V2

Needed Headroom Signs on car top for

Clearances Refuge: (one or more)
 Safety related to pit

Signs in pit for Refuge

Needed pit clearances
(one or more)
Car Roof Balustrade

Screen
between two
lifts is
measured
from handrail
Ladder Requirements

Example: Fixed Example movable

Scope of NL EN 81-50
 This standard specifies the design rules,
calculations, examinations and tests of
Lift Components.
NL EN81-50: Tests of
equipment
 5.2- Door locking

 5.3- Safety gear

 5.4- Overspeed
governors

 5.5- Buffers
NL EN81-50: Tests of equipment
 5.6- Safety circuits
containing electronic
components

 5.7- Car ascending

overspeed protection means

 5.8- Unintended car

movement protection
means

 5.9- Rupture valve/one-

way restrictor
 NL EN 81-21
New Lifts in Existing Building
Scope of NL EN 81-21
 This Standard covers:
◦ installation of complete
new lift(s) in an existing
building; or
◦ The replacement of
existing lift(s) by new ones.

 This Standard does not

cover:
◦ Replacement or
modifications of some
parts to a lift already
installed.
Well
 5.1- Perforate wall of
the lift well

 5.2- Clearances between

car, counterweight or
balancing weight

 5.3- Counterweight or
balancing weight in a
separate well

 5.4- Pulleys in the well

Well
 5.5- Reduced top
clearances

 5.6- Car roof balustrade

 5.7- Reduced bottom

clearances

 5.8- Apron

 5.14- Height of landing

doors
Machinery
 5.9- Height of machine
room

 5.10- Height of machine

room doors

 5.11- Dimensions of trap

doors for machine room

 5.12- Height of pulley

rooms

 5.13- Dimensions of trap

doors for pulley room
Reduced Top Clearance

Requirements Sign
Reduced Bottom Clearance

Requirements Sign
Mechanisms for reduced
headroom and pit
 NL EN 81-70
Accessibility for persons with
impaired mobility
NL EN81-70
 Accessibility to lifts for persons including
persons with disability

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Main Requirements
 Entrance clear
opening to be at least
800 mm

 The door time is to

be adjustable
(normally between 2
s and 20 s).

 Door close button in

the car.
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Main Requirements
Minimum car Accessibility level
dimensions
450 kg This car accommodates one
Car width: 1 000 mm wheelchair user.
Car Depth: 1 250 mm
630 kg This car accommodates one
Car width : 1 100 mm wheelchair user and an accompanying
Car depth : 1 400 mm person.
1 275 kg This car accommodates one
Car width : 2 000 mm wheelchair user and several
Car depth : 1 400 mm other users. It also allows a
wheelchair to be rotated in the
car.
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Main Requirements
 On one side wall of the
car a handrail shall be
installed on a height of
900mm

 In case a user of a
wheelchair cannot turn
it around, a mirror
shall be provided.

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Main Requirements
 The car control panel
location on the wall:
◦ with centre opening doors, on
the right hand side when
entering the car;
◦ with side opening doors, on the
closing jamb side

 Distance between centreline

of buttons and corner:
◦ 400mm for car; and
◦ 500 mm for landing.

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Main Requirements
Control devices – Requirements (2)
Subject Landing controls Car controls
Registration feedback Visible and audible, adjustable between 35
dB(A) and 65 dB(A)b.
The audible signal shall be given on every
individual operation of button even if the
call is already registered.
Button for building exit Not applicable 5mm beyond the
floor other buttons
preferably green
Position of symbol on active part or 10 mm to 15 mm left of it
Height of relief Minimum 0,8 mm Height of relief

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 Control Device

Subject Landing Car controls

controls
Distance between active Minimum 10 mm
parts of buttons.
Distance between group of Not Twice the
call buttons and other applicable distance
group of buttons
Minimum height between 900 mm
the floor level and the
centreline of any button
Max height of centreline of 1 100 mm 1200 mm
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the highest button preferably
 NL EN 81-40
Stairlifts & Inclined Lifting
Platform
European Norm: EN81-40
 Stairlifts and inclined lifting platforms
intended for persons with impaired mobility

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NL EN 81-40 Scope
 Safety requirements for
construction, manufacturing,
installation, maintenance and
dismantling of:

◦ electrically operated stairlifts:

e.g.
Chair; Standing platform; and
wheelchair platform

◦ affixed to a building structure,

◦ moving in an inclined plane; and

◦ intended for use by persons

with impaired mobility
Main Requirements
 Rated speed: 0.15m/s max

 Rated load:
◦ Minimum 115kg for person users and
◦ Minimum 250kg/m2 for wheel chair users
Minimum Clearance Dimensions

Standing Passenger Seated Passenger

Minimum Clearance on Wheelchair
 European Norm: EN81-41
 Vertical lifting platforms intended for use by
persons with impaired mobility

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NL EN 81-41
 Safety requirements for
construction,
manufacturing,
installation, maintenance
and dismantling of:

◦ electrically powered vertical

lifting platforms

◦ affixed to a building
structure

◦ intended for use by persons

with impaired mobility
Scope of NL EN 81-41
 travelling vertically between
predefined levels along a
guided path whose inclination
to the vertical does not exceed
15°;

 intended for use by persons

with or without a wheelchair;

 with enclosed liftways;

 with a speed not greater than

0,15 m/s;

 with platforms where the carrier

is not completely enclosed.
General
Characteristics
 Rated speed: 0.15 m/s max

 Rated load: 250kg/m2


 Maximum rated load: 500kg

 Overload required

 Dimension: clear loading

area of 2m2 max
Specific requirements for lifting
platform enclosures

If travel is 3m or less If travel is more than 3m

Min door height 1100 mm Min door height 2000 mm
 NL EN 81-82
Accessibility Improvement of
Existing Lift
Scope of NL EN 81-82
 This European Standard provides rules on
how to apply EN 81-70 to existing lifts to
improve their accessibility for persons
including persons with disability.
 NL EN81-31
Accessible Only Goods Lifts
Scope of NL EN 81-31
 This European
Standard covers:
◦ accessible goods only
lifts;
◦ With rated speed not
exceeding 1m/s
◦ With rated load
exceeding 300 kg; and
◦ Not intended to move
persons.
Types of Accessible Goods only Lifts
 Type A, where the
intended use is bound to
the following two
simultaneous conditions:
◦ Maximum rated speed:
0,30 m/s;
◦ Maximum travelling height:
12 m;

 Type B, where one of the

conditions mentioned
above is not fulfilled.
Some important information
 Automatic power operated doors shall not be
used.

 Type A could be platform and not necessary

enclosed cabin
 NL EN81-22
Inclined Lifts
NL EN81-22
 Safety rules for the construction
and installation of permanently
installed new electric lifts,
 with traction or positive drive,
serving defined landings levels,
 having a vehicle designed to
convey passengers or passengers
and loads, suspended by ropes
or chains and travelling in a
vertical plan along guide rails
that are inclined at an angle of
between 15° and 75° in relation
to the horizontal.
NL EN 81-22 Limitation Due to State
of Art
 Inclination: a variation in
inclination is permitted for
the travel path;

 travel path: confined

within the vertical plane;

 Maximum capacity of the

car: 7500 kg (100
passengers);

 maximum rated speed (v):

4 m/s.
EN81-22: Requirement
 Same principle of part 20 with the differences
due to inclination, such as:
◦ Formula, for the clear distance needed in the
headroom: 0.035V2 Sin∝
Thank you