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and heritage buildings. The company is even installing a passenger lift within the ancient walls of Winchester Cathedral in 2017, having previously completed and maintained installations in Durham and Liverpool Cathedrals. Every high street in the UK is the home of coffee shops, that in turn feature a Stannah service lift or dumbwaiter, whilst fast food outlets use larger service and goods-only lifts – all part of the service portfolio.
Every one of the eleven service branches has customers with larger lift portfolios, such as local authorities, housing associations and care providers. These customers rely on Stannah to ensure their accessibility products, such as stairlifts, steplifts and hoists are all maintained to the highest standard as their residents rely on them every day. When equipment needs to be upgraded, for instance in a housing development that has passenger lifts providing access to individual homes over several floors, Stannah engineers liaise with facilities managers and residents to ensure safety on site and minimum disruption. They have even attended regular resident coffee mornings to keep everyone well informed on a day-to-day basis.
In addition to the regular maintenance service Stannah provide a wealth of lift knowledge to their customers to keep them informed about changes in industry guidelines and technologic advances that offer upgrades to equipment to extend the life cycle of lift equipment and reduce running costs. Their advisory booklets ‘Lifts - your questions
answered’ and ‘Goods lifts – your questions answered’ cover much of the lift owner/managers’ questions put to engineers at sites nationwide.
“STANNAH PROVIDE ‘STEP-FREE ACCESS’ ACROSS THE RAIL NETWORK.”
Effective maintenance and sound advice can extend the life of equipment but often equipment needs to be refurbished, upgraded or sometimes completely replaced. Stannah engineers complete this work too, often in challenging environments, but always with increased safety and equipment performance at the heart of every project.
Stannah has recently been named ‘Specialist Contractor of the Year’ at the Builder & Engineer Awards for their work installing new equipment in Birmingham New Street and Leeds stations – work completed within a fully-functioning, busy, public space, completed on time and within budget. In 2017 work at London Bridge station enters a concluding phase and the installation of new escalators and lifts continue at London/Luton airport, where all lifting equipment will be maintained by Stannah.
On the eve of their 150th anniversary the Stannah Group is looking forward to growing their product ranges with the addition of a collection of lifts for individual homes, innovating within their current standard product range, extending their bespoke capability, adding to their distribution, customers with loading bay requirements and growing their maintenance portfolio nationwide. They are also looking forward to meeting more FM professionals at facilities shows at the NEC in March and ExCel in June. It’s going to be quite a year adding to their distribution customers with loading bay requirements and growing their maintenance portfolio nationwide!
www.stannahlifts.co.uk
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