5 Features of Monospace and Ecospace Elevators

The various features of monospace and ecospace elevators include the kind of building, use of machine room-less technology, highest travel distance, weight capacity and travel speed.

Monospace and ecospace elevators are elevators usually seen in both commercial and residential buildings that have limited space. These kinds of elevators became a solution for travelling from one floor to another in buildings that cannot accommodate the conventional sizes of elevators. Along with the features of elevators in general, read this article to learn about the various features of monospace and ecospace elevators.

Kind of building

All kinds of buildings and homes can be provided with elevators; such as office buildings, apartment buildings, hotels or motels, hospitals, and shopping centers. However, because buildings have different sizes, and some of them do not have the capacity to provide a conventional elevator, this is where ecospace and monospace elevators come in. Ecospace and monospace elevators have compact sizes that allow the contractors to provide an elevator in a building that does not have the space for a regular-sized elevator. Ecospace elevators are the kind of elevators that are made just for low rise buildings that have only two to ten floors. Meanwhile, those mid-rise buildings that have six to 27 landings can make use of monospace elevators.

Use of machine room-less technology

Whatever kind of elevator a particular building will have, either monospace or ecospace, the machine room-less technology is used in both. A machine room less elevator utilizes and saves space because it takes the need for a machine room away. Buildings with limited spaces are normally the ones that will benefit from this feature in elevators, in addition to the monospace or ecospace elevators. Those buildings that are larger in size can benefit from the machine room-less technology, as well. These buildings can use that space that would have been used to house the machine for other features. In addition to saving space, machine room-less technology also lets the building save a great amount in energy consumption as compared to the conventional hydraulic elevator. This new technological feature also eliminates the need for use of environmentally-harmful underground placement of hydraulic oil inside the hydraulic cylinder; as it will now be situated above ground. Lastly, machine room-less technology is also more efficient than the hydraulic elevators because the type of machine being used requires gearless traction, thus providing much more superior performance, higher riding quality and greater speed.

Highest travel distance

The highest distance that an elevator can travel depends on equipment being used by that particular elevator. Hydraulic elevators for example, have a maximum of six floors travel distance for residential buildings and even a lesser number of floors for commercial buildings. Geared-traction cannot go beyond 18 floors for residential buildings and 9 floors for commercial buildings; while gearless-traction elevators can go beyond those numbers of floors. Ecospace and monospace elevators, on the other hand, can travel up to a maximum of seven floors and 18 floors only, respectively.

Weight capacity

The capacity of elevators depends on their intended use. Elevators for healthcare facilities and commercial buildings require their elevators to be wider than deep. This is so these elevators can effectively provide service for patients that are both capable of walking and those being carried, as well as to ease traffic. Ecospace and monospace elevators have a carrying capacity of 2,000 to 5,000 and 2,000 to 4,500 pounds, respectively.

Travel speed

The travel speeds for elevators also depend upon the elevator equipment; monospace elevators can run 200 to 500 feet for each minute; and a maximum of 150 feet/minute for the ecospace elevators.

It is important that all kinds of elevators meet the standard requirements of the state for the safety of all its passengers.