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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.