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Vertical Transportation
Consulting
At Walker, we offer comprehensive professional consulting services for vertical transportation systems, tailored to meet the unique needs of your facility.
Our expertise in Vertical transportation plays a critical role in the functionality, accessibility, and efficiency of multi-story buildings. Elevators, escalators, moving walks, and lifts are indispensable elements of our daily vertical mobility. Our experts provide design and consulting services through every stage in your building’s vertical transportation lifecycle.
Vertical Transportation Equipment Due Diligence Assessment
During the equipment assessment, our team evaluates the performance, condition, and efficiency of existing vertical transportation systems and provides clear, data-backed recommendations for capital expenditures. Assessments are essential to ensure smooth building operations, minimize unexpected downtime, and maintain a positive user experience.
Our consultants survey, and document, the equipment condition, quality of maintenance, and remaining life expectancy of the vertical transportation systems. Our due diligence reports include clear, project specific, documentation, supplemental photographs, and an opinion of probable costs to address deficiencies, providing insight to help make informed decisions.
Vertical Transportation Modernization Design and Planning
A modernization of the vertical transportation system not only boosts equipment efficiency and reduces long-term maintenance costs, but it also enhances rider satisfaction and helps your building operate at peak performance. Our consultants help you optimize design, plan for smooth integration, and provide expert guidance throughout the process.
We guide clients in determining the right timing for upgrades based on equipment condition and performance as well as advising on and helping to best manage the building impact throughout the modernization process. Our scope of services can also include necessary adjacent systems and potential structural modifications. We assess opportunities to improve efficiency through upgraded performance and energy savings, recommend the best equipment for the project application, and support accurate capital planning with detailed cost and schedule projections.
Our modernization services include comprehensive assessments, turn-key construction documents (including building work), maintenance specifications, bidding assistance, and construction administration.
Vertical Transportation Maintenance Performance Evaluations and Programs
Assessing the equipment performance, quality of preventative maintenance services being provided, and efficiency of your existing vertical transportation systems is essential for long-term reliability. Our consultants will provide valuable recommendations for repairs, system improvements, and capital planning needs. They will also develop a maintenance plan for your vertical transportation systems, helping your system operate at optimal performance.
Walker consultants can also help manage ongoing contractor maintenance compliance, engagement, and performance as the client representative and advocate.
Vertical Transportation Maintenance Contract
Our performance-based, preventative maintenance specifications for vertical transportation equipment are designed to keep your systems reliable, efficient, and cost-effective. We develop client-focused, performance-based specifications that align with your operational goals, provide expert procurement support for all portfolio sizes ranging from a single property to multi-site national portfolios, and guide you through bidding and contract negotiations to secure favorable terms and long-term value.
By setting clear expectations, improving service accountability, and reducing unnecessary costs, our maintenance contract services help clients better understand their vertical transportation systems and providers, empowering more informed decisions and stronger long-term outcomes.
Vertical Transportation New Construction
Our new construction services provide end-to-end support from concept through completion. We begin with conceptual and schematic design analysis to confirm efficient system operation, followed by detailed drawing packages that guide your project through design development and construction.
Walker helps our clients to determine how many elevators are needed to efficiently handle building traffic based on projected usage patterns. We recommend the right system type based on building height, square footage and usage, space constraints, and energy goals. Our consultants define the systems’ required capacity and speed to meet the building’s functional demands for smooth, timely movement throughout the building while ensuring all applicable code requirements are met.
To support project delivery, we also prepare outline specifications and provide cost and schedule guidance, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment from design through construction.