Inclined Elevators

An inclined elevator follows the ground instead of cutting through it. Where a site rises steeply, a vertical shaft means excavation, retaining structure and a tower; a car running on an inclined track along the slope avoids all three. Bronze Lift engineers these installations to the terrain rather than forcing the terrain to accept a standard shaft.

Why slope changes the problem

On an incline the guide track, not a plumb shaft, defines the geometry. The angle may change along the run, so the car has to stay level while the track does not. Stations sit where the ground allows rather than at regular intervals, and the loads on the track vary with the gradient. These are the questions that decide whether an installation is buildable, and they are settled from a survey, not a catalogue.

What the survey establishes

• Gradient along the whole run, including any change in angle between stations.
• Station positions and the platform level at each, set by the ground rather than by storey height.
• Track structure and its foundations, which follow from the gradient and ground conditions.
• Weather exposure, since most of these installations are outdoors: drainage, icing and wind.
• Car capacity and whether the route has to carry luggage, bicycles or wheelchairs.

Where they are used

Hillside residential developments, hotels on sloping sites, castle and viewpoint access, metro entrances on embankments, and public links between two street levels. Send us a site section and the levels you need to connect, and we will tell you what the slope allows.