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| Design criteria | |
| Number of passenger lifts | Two (duplex car arrangement) |
| Capacity | 13 persons |
| Speed | 1 m/second |
| Number of stops | Four |
| Door width | 900 mm, centre opening |
| Handling capacity | 15% of population in five minutes |
| Target waiting time | 30 seconds |
| Average starts per hour | 60 |
| Finishes level | Good quality from standard range |
| Capital costs for the three options | |||
| Option 1 | Option 2 | Option 3 | |
| Lift installation | 80,000 | 90,000 | 76,000 |
| Building works* | 39,630 | 47,080 | 15,400 |
| M&E works in connection | 9500 | 3500 | 2100 |
| Total: new installation works | 129,130 | 140,580 | 93,500 |
| Main contractor preliminaries, attendance, overheads and profit | 22,598 | 24,602 | 16,363 |
| Professional fees | 15,173 | 16,518 | 10,986 |
| Sub-total | 166,901 | 181,700 | 120,849 |
| Less capital allowances | (30,556) | (31,665) | (26,727) |
| Total | 136,345 | 150,035 | 94,122 |
| * Building works cover machine room (where applicable), shaft, shaft steels, division screens, scaffold and so on. | |||