ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study that considers a, yet to be built, regular trader building where the lower three floors are occupied by trading floors, and the upper nine floors contain office accommodation occupied by multiple tenants. The building is designed with three zones: a lower zone served by escalators; a middle zone and an upper zone served by lifts with a common facilities floor between these two lifted zones. The demand at the ground floor for the first set of escalators will be to populate floors with 1,290 persons. In view of the small number of floors each lift group is serving, and the large rated load of the lifts, it is reasonable to assume the occupants of floor 8 are split equally between the two groups. The chapter presents tables that show the 13" handling capacity requirement has been met with three and four lifts.
