3.
ELEVATORS:
3.1
Passenger type elevators are used to transport the public,
hospital staff, and ambulatory patients (wheelchairs).
3.2
Hospital service type elevators are used to transport employees,
patients, and equipment or carts. Patients may be on foot, in
wheelchairs, on gurneys or beds.
3.3
Combination passenger and service type elevators are installed
where combined use is possible without interfering with normal
activities, i.e., outpatient, domiciliary, and nursing home care
facilities.
3.4
Elevators shall be provided in all facilities having two or more
floors and shall be of a design to provide the functional link for
the type of traffic anticipated. Passenger and service elevators
shall be of a size to accommodate handicapped persons.
3.5
Elevators for limited special use, such as those for private
passengers, are economically undesirable. They shall not be
installed unless they can be fully justified. The use of slow
speed elevators shall be considered and separated from other
traffic if required for mortuary use or the transport of animals.
3.6
When planning the location of elevators, the following principles
shall be observed:
A.
Elevators shall be located so that the building entrances with
the heaviest traffic will have adequate elevator service.
Elevators shall be as near to the center of the building area
served as practicable, taking into consideration the distance
from the elevator bank or banks to the most distant functional
areas.
B.
Elevators shall be located so that they will serve all floors
that require service. This includes the basement, sub-
basement, as well as all of the typical floors of the office
building. Avoid placing elevators or dumbwaiters over
occupied spaces as this will require counterweight safeties
and reinforced pits.
C.
Elevators shall be grouped in banks of adjacent cars or banks
of adjacent cars or banks of cars facing each other. It is
desirable to have not over four service cars in a bank or
three passenger cars in a bank, and not over six cars in a
group of two facing banks.
D.
Consideration shall be given to the maximum walking distance
from the vertical transportation service to the most distant
function. This factor shall be weighed along with the
advantages of locating elevators near the center of the
building and the advantage of elevator clustering. In
general, the maximum walking distance to elevators should not
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