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Passenger Elevators

Name: Passenger Elevators
Brand: MB Elevator

The car most people mean when they say “lift”. Sized by how many people need to move in the busiest five minutes of the day — not by how many floors the building has.

Drive types

Six ways to move a passenger car, and what each one costs you.

The drive is decided by travel height, available headroom and how often the lift runs. Everything else — finish, doors, controls — is chosen after.

Traction

Geared traction

A motor drives the sheave through a worm or helical gearbox. The workhorse of Indian mid-rise housing: proven, serviceable, and every technician in the country knows it.

Speed: 0.5 – 1.75 m/s
Travel: up to 60 m
Stops: 2 – 20
Machine room: Required

Strength: Lowest equipment cost, parts available everywhere, tolerant of imperfect power supply.
Trade-off: Needs a machine room above the shaft and a gearbox oil change schedule.

Traction

Gearless traction

A permanent-magnet motor turns the sheave directly, with no gearbox in between. Quieter, more efficient, and the only sensible answer above about fifteen floors.

Speed: 1.5 – 6.0 m/s
Travel: up to 150 m+
Stops: 10 – 40
Machine room: Required

Strength: Highest speed and ride quality, lowest running cost, no gear oil to maintain.
Trade-off: Higher equipment cost; specialist attention needed for drive faults.

Traction

Machine-room-less elevator drive unit mounted at the head of the shaft

Machine-room-less (MRL)

The gearless machine is mounted inside the shaft head, alongside the guide rail. You get the traction ride without giving up the roof slab.

Speed: 1.0 – 1.75 m/s
Travel: up to 75 m
Stops: 2 – 24
Machine room: None

Strength: No machine room, lower building cost, roughly a third less energy than geared.
Trade-off: Servicing happens inside the shaft, so rescue and repair access must be planned at design stage.

Hydraulic

A pump pushes oil into a cylinder and a ram lifts the car. No load reaches the roof, which is why it suits buildings that were never designed to carry a lift.

Speed: 0.15 – 0.63 m/s
Travel: up to 18 m
Stops: 2 – 6
Machine room: Beside shaft

Strength: All structural load goes into the pit, not the roof. Ideal for retrofits and heavy loads at low rise.
Trade-off: Slow, higher running cost, and oil temperature limits how often it can cycle.

Retrofit

Compact passenger elevator installed in an existing building with a shallow pit

Pitless / shallow pit

Built for buildings that already exist. The pit requirement drops to a shallow recess, so no deep excavation is needed under an occupied structure.

Speed: 0.15 – 0.30 m/s
Travel: up to 12 m
Stops: 2 – 4
Pit depth: 50 – 300 mm

Strength: Fits into existing stairwells and courtyards with minimal civil work.
Trade-off: Limited speed and travel; not suitable for high daily traffic.

Panoramic

Panoramic / capsule

A traction or hydraulic lift with a glazed car, run in a glazed or open shaft. Specified when the lift is part of how the building presents itself.

Speed: 0.5 – 2.0 m/s
Travel: up to 45 m
Stops: 2 – 12
Car: Glazed

Strength: Turns vertical transport into a visible feature for lobbies, malls and hotels.
Trade-off: Glass cleaning and atrium access become part of the maintenance plan.

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Passenger lift specialists

Vertical transport is where the team started, and it is still most of what we do.

Passenger lifts are the largest share of the more than a hundred installations and commissionings the team has carried out across Delhi NCR, in apartments, offices, malls and institutions. We size a car and dispatch strategy from real traffic figures rather than a catalogue default, and back it with genuine controllers and machines instead of the cheapest equivalent on the market. That combination of engineering judgement and supply you can trust is why buildings across Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Ghaziabad and Faridabad keep bringing their next passenger lift project back to us.

Sizing

How a passenger lift actually gets specified.

Traffic analysis first, cabin finish last. Getting this order wrong is the single most common reason a new building ends up with queues in the lobby.

Count the population, not the floors

Total occupants across all served levels. A twelve-floor building with four flats per floor behaves very differently from a twelve-floor office with ninety desks per floor.

Fix the five-minute handling capacity

The share of the population the lift group must move in the busiest five minutes. Residential buildings are usually specified around 5–7 per cent; offices need 12–15 per cent.

Set the interval target

Average wait between cars at the main landing. Below 40 seconds reads as good service; past 60 seconds people start using the stairs and complaining.

Derive load, speed and car count

Only now do capacity, speed and the number of cars fall out of the arithmetic. Speed follows travel height: roughly 1 m/s per 30 m of rise as a starting point.

Check the shaft against the answer

Available shaft, pit and headroom either accommodate that specification or force a drive change. This is where MRL and hydraulic options usually enter the conversation.

Choose doors, controls and finish

Door width drives loading time more than cabin size does. Finish is the last decision and the only one that can be changed later without touching the shaft.

Passenger elevator lobby in a commercial building in Delhi NCR

Group control matters more than car size Two well-dispatched cars beat three badly dispatched ones. We specify the controller with the same care as the machine.

Where they go

Buildings we specify passenger lifts for.

Residential societies. Two to twenty-four floors, peak load at morning departure and evening return.
Office buildings and IT parks. Sharp lobby peaks; usually needs a group of cars under common dispatch.
Hotels and serviced apartments. Guest and service traffic separated, ride quality and noise held tight.
Malls and mixed-use. Passenger cars working alongside escalators that carry the bulk flow.
Institutional buildings. Colleges, offices and public buildings with accessibility requirements.

Get a specification for your building

Alongside

Services and parts this product depends on.

Equipment is half the decision. These are the parts of the lifecycle we cover for it.

Installation

Shaft survey, erection, commissioning and load testing before handover.

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AMC contracts

Scheduled preventive maintenance with a signed checklist each visit.

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Modernization

Controller, drive and cabin upgrades once the lift passes twelve years.

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Control panels

VVVF drives and controllers, replaced or upgraded in place.

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COP & LOP panels

Car and landing fixtures, including accessibility-compliant sets.

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Safety devices

Governors, safety gear and door interlocks tested against code.

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Common questions

Before you ask for a quotation

What is the passenger lift price in Delhi NCR?

Passenger elevator price is driven by capacity, stops, speed, drive type and door width, in that order. Cabin finish moves the figure far less than people expect. We quote after a shaft survey, because a quotation written without pit and headroom figures is a guess that changes later.

How many floors before I need gearless instead of geared?

Around fifteen floors, or wherever travel passes about 45 to 60 metres. Below that, geared traction is usually the better value. Above it, the ride quality and energy difference start to justify the cost.

Can we install a lift in a building that is already occupied?

Yes. This is where MRL, hydraulic and shallow-pit options earn their place, since they reduce or remove the need for a machine room and deep pit excavation under a live structure.

What shaft size should the architect leave?

Send us the intended capacity and we will return the shaft, pit and headroom dimensions in writing at drawing stage. Correcting a shaft after casting is the most expensive mistake in the whole process.

How long does installation take?

For a typical eight-stop passenger lift, erection and commissioning runs about three to five weeks once the shaft is handed over plumb, dry and with power available. Delays are almost always civil-side.

Send the floor plan. Get the specification back.

Share the building type, floor count and shaft dimensions if you have them. We return a written recommendation with capacity, speed, drive type and shaft requirements.

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