Commercial Wheelchair Lifts
Vertical Platform Lifts with Fire-Rated Doors
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Vertical Platform Lifts with NON Fire-Rated Doors
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Commercial wheelchair lifts are intended for all public and private professional buildings including schools, universities, office buildings, houses of worship and for common areas in multi-family dwelling units. The wheelchair platform lift is the most popular alternative to unsightly ramps and often overcome architectural barriers with cost efficiency.
Vertical Platform Lifts (VPLs)
The commercial vertical platform lift requires an enclosure or shaftway surrounding the wheel chair lift with a maximum travel height of up 14 feet.
There are two types of hoistway enclcosures:
One option is a factory enclosed model, which comes self-contained with a wraparound, non fire rated, hoistway enclosure, complete with gates, doors, interlocks and controls. Popular factory enclosures include safety glass, Plexi-glass and metal panel enclosures, being either steel or aluminum for outdoor use.
The other option is the onsite construction of masonry or stud drywall enclosure, typically built by a general contractor base on engineered drawings provided by McNally. Where the enclosure is built separately the configuration is often referred to as ‘hoistway by others.’
Key elements of the commercial vertical lift include the following:
Platforms comes with 42” high guard panels, grab rail and a non-skid platform surface. Constant pressure up/down control buttons on the platform and constant pressure hall call control stations at each landing. FLUSH mounted doors & gates on the factory enclosed model comes standard with lower landing door and either an upper landing gate or full door. Where the hoistway is built separately (also known as ‘hoistway by others’) flush doors are requiredat the upper and lower landings.
Configuration of the platforms come standard with straight through entry and exit with options available for entry and exit on same side and 90 degree entry and exit. Most platforms available with either screw or hydraulic drives each having unique benefits and best applications
Commercial VPLs have the following features and functionality:
Car sizes up to 18 sq feet including: 36” x 48”, 36” x 54”, 36” x 60” or 42” x 60”
Up to 14’ travel standard with up to three stops
Screw drives and cable hydraulic lift systems available
Screw drives typically run at 10 feet per minute (fpm) lift speed
Hydraulic drive systems typically run at 20 fpm
750 lbs load capacity
Constant pressure platform and hall controls
Wide range of safety features
Full Height cab options with 30 fpm lift speed (see below)
Full Height Cab -
If a more refined VPL is sought, we offer models with full height cabs having a look more similar to a commercial LULA with 6’8” interior height, suspended style ceiling, optional wood grain finishes and hydraulic drive systems. Full Height Cab systems, do retain many platform lift features such as constant pressure controls and 14 foot maximum travel height.
Commercial Wheelchair Lift Models
We carry a number of time-tested commercial wheel chair lift models from a number of manufacturers including Savaria and Bruno.