FIRST LIFT EXPO IN RSA

On Tuesday 27th August the Hon. Minister of Employment & Labour Mr

T Nxesi, delivered the opening address at the Sandton Convention Centre.

Here he is seen cutting the commencement ribbon with Director of Electri-

cal Engineering DEL, Mr Jakes Malatse assisting. On the left is Ms Anitha

Ragunath, Director of Virgo Communications and Exibitions, who co-

ordinated the Expo. On the extreme right is Mr Lexiam Zhang, Chair Per-

son of the China International Lift Market.

This Car Position

Indicator with call

buttons of yesteryear

was quite a revelation

at the Expo. This

equipment can now

be manufactured in

brass plate for the

discerning buyer,

obviously with mod-

ern technology but

still looking like its

pre world-war coun-

terpart.

LIFT INSPECTORS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH ESTABLISHED 1996

October 2019 Volume 16 - Issue 10

Recognised Voluntary Association in terms of Section 36(1) of the Engineering Professions Act

EDUCOM fulfills a requirement for Continued Professional Development as specified in the Act N..46 of 2000

ESTABLISHED JANUARY 2003

Educom

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

ELENET : Latest News from Elev. World

Company Loyalty : how long will it exist

UK Regulatory Health & Safety News ...

SANAS Communications ...

RSA Lift Expo Presentations …

Country Lift Inspections ...

Department of Labour - Workshops …

IFE exhibits at Lift Expo ...

Elevator World Communications ...

Lift Product Quality … Old vs New ...

SANAS Communications (continued) ...

LIASA - Lift Inspectors’ Association ...

- National Executive Committee

- LIASA Meeting Schedule for 2019

- TUT’s Lift Inspect. Courses for 2019

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LIASA AGM

Wednesday 9th October @ 09:00

HI-TECH TRAINING ACADEMY,

1327 SPYKER CRES., STORMHILL

(Maraisburg - just off Main Reef Road)

Non-member visitors are invited subject to prior tele-phonic advice to Bonnie of

proposed attendance

ELENET #804

DATED 18.09.2019

NYARM RELEASES SCHEDULE of ELEVA-TOR CLASSES in USA

NYARM (USA) will present professional development sessions on elevator tech-nology for building manag-ers. The upcoming elevator sessions are scheduled for September 18, October 1, October 15, November 5 and December 4. The pro-gram is designed to …

teach building managers about the sophisticated new elevator technology in new construction

as well as modernization of aged elevators.

Elevator contractors and consultants interested in participating or seeking pric-ing and other information are asked to contact NYARM.

ELEVATORS TO BE RE-QUIRED IN FOUR-

STORY BUILDINGS IN UKRAINE

An updated construction standard will require eleva-tors in buildings with four or more floors, goes into effect on December 1. According to the requirement, it will al-so be recommended that

passenger elevators be in-stalled in houses with three or more floors. Machine rooms, block rooms, stairs and the designs of the ele-vators must still meet current building standards. The number of elevators required for each building will depend on the number of people who live there. This new standard was developed to replace a 2005 requirement considered outdated.

TALLEST BUILDING IN JAPAN PLANNED FOR

TOKYO

Mori Building Co. has un-veiled plans for a redevelop-ment project in central To-kyo that includes what would become the tallest building in Japan, Kyodo News re-ports. The 330-m-tall sky-scraper in the Azabudai-Toranomon district, and is set to be completed in March 2023. The full project is expected to cost US$5.6 billion) and also have a hotel and international school on an 8.1-ha site. Rival company Mitsubishi Estate. is planning a 390m-tall building in Tokyo in 2027 that would then take the dis-tinction of tallest building.

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ELEVATOR WORKER DIES IN ACCIDENT

CBS reported that a Boston man who was undertaking ele-vator maintenance, died in the TripAdvisor headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts, on September 3.

TripAdvisor said that day that the incident "is being investi-gated today by the Needham Police”. No TripAdvisor em-ployees were harmed. Being under investigation, details of the incident have not been re-leased.

PLAN FOR WORLD'S TALLEST ‘PASSIVE HOUSE’ IN CANADA

Following news of a proposed pair of 43- and 48-story towers in Vancouver, Canada, that would have been the tallest in the world to meet the Passive House Standard (ELENET 706), a plan for a 60-story pas-sive tower has entered the fray, courtesy of Henson Develop-ments.

Passive houses meet stand-ards that originated in Germa-ny for energy efficiency and comfort. With a "modern aes-thetic with curved lines and glass accents," Henson's pro-posed tower on Nelson Street on the West End is under re-view by city leaders. Should it be built, it would be a "very big deal" for the city, according to Green Building Manager Sean Pander, as it could … help kickstart additional green construction and achieve the city's zero-emission building goal.

PLANS ANNOUNCED FOR

MALAYSIAN MEGATALL

KLCC Holdings, the owner of

Malaysia's tallest buildings, the

Petronas Twin Towers, is set to

lose its crown, but has re-

vealed plans to reclaim it in the

form of Tower M, a 700-m-tall

building within the Kuala Lum-

pur City Centre development,

The Edge Markets reports.

Construction is not planned to

start until sometime after 2030.

Estimates put the gross devel-

opment value of the project

between US$880 million and

US$999 million. The developer

did not say how many stories

Tower M would have, but the

source said it would reportedly

number 145 floors.

OTIS TO SUPPLY 190

UNITS FOR KUWAIT AIR-

PORT'S NEW TERMINAL

Otis Kuwait has been awarded

a contract to supply 190 eleva-

tors for the new Passenger

Terminal 2 at Kuwait Interna-

tional Airport, the company an-

nounced on September 16.

The contract calls for the instal-

lation of 171 Gen2™ units with

capacities up to 5000 kg and

19 heavy-duty elevators with

capacities up to 11 T.

The units feature Otis' ReGen®

Drive, Gen2™ flat-coated steel

belts and Pulse™ monitoring

systems. The con-tract is val-

ued at KWD1.31-billion

(US$4.34-billion).

GIANT ESCALATORS BY THYSSENKRUPP

Thyssenkrupp recently install-led the longest escalators ever produced in Germany, four 100-m-long, 48.7-m-high units that are part of a 25-escalator order for the Baku Metro in Azerbaijan (ELENET 681). The escalators will help increase capacity of the metro stations by 50% and facilitate the flow of more than 231 million pas-sengers annually.

With motors and gears in-stalled on the floor in front of the units rather than inside, the four "steel giants" are, accord-ing to Thyssenkrupp, narrower than any other escalators - yet offer the same level of com-fort and space as traditional units.

Besides the ultra-deep escala-tors, the contract included eight high-rise escalators for the Sa-hil and Khatai stations, and 17 escalators for a new station.

The only Thyssenkrupp escala-tors longer than the ones in the Baku metro are 53-m-high units manufactured for the Moscow Metro that are yet to been installed. Thyssenkrupp is also providing 307 elevators to modernize public housing in Baku.

COMPANY LOYALTY … How long will it still exist?

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SOUTH AFRICAN

DAMS WATER

STORAGE STATUS Sent in by Hennie Hudson

Note the various dam depths compared to their surface area - obviously the larger the surface area the greater the evapora-tion!

Now for Devine interven-tion to break the formida-ble drought that is wreak-ing havoc in certain prov-inces, where it has not rained for the past two to three years..

Travelling down to the Free State and Northern Cape last week, we had the most distinct pleasure of meet-

ing an old Schindler stalwart of yesteryear, still employed and serving his company with distinction!

Arthur Hall - District Representative for the Central Free State,

we bumped into him carrying out his routine preventative mainte-

nance in Welkom. Arthur is negotiating going onto pension in De-

cember, when he will have completed 44 years of yeoman service

with Schindler. We remember going down with the late Steve le

Roux to Welkom Hospital, where Arthur was going to install new

DC Dynators. Fortunately he was motivated to stay on after the

hand-over so as to service the Welkom area. Now 44 years later he

has decided to call it a day.

We wonder how many other simi-

lar long service employes are still

active with any lift company in

the RSA. Perhaps these compa-

nies can advise us for inclusion

in the next issue of Educom.

What a welcome surprise to meet Obed Ntsuku Leshage on our lift

inspections in Kimberley last week. With some 35 years of service with

Schindler in the Bloem Branch, we first met Obed in the late 1980’s,

as part of a service-field training contingent in Johannesburg. In those

days employees going the extra mile and noted for their service excel-

lence, were nominated for further developmental training. Investing in

these employees such as Arthur and Obed, has certainly delivered divi-

dends to Schindler over the years. Somehow they all felt that they be-

longed to one big happy family as opposed to today’s employers!

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Allianz - UK Lift Health & Safety News …

Geoff.hayward@allianz.co.uk

Death of Experienced Wellington

Lift Technician - January 14th

The Government's safety watchdog ruled the death of an experienced Wellington lift technician in a work-place accident was not his employer's fault. The cor-oner heard two days of evidence, to establish why Brendon Scheib, 54, who worked for Otis Elevator Company, failed to return home on January 14 …

Scheib, who had almost three decades of lift industry

experience, was killed when a lift descended on him

in the T&G Building, otherwise known as the Har-

courts Building, in central Wellington. His body lay at

the bottom of the lift shaft for more than two hours,

before an alarm on his phone, triggered by two hours

of inactivity, was sent to the Otis call centre.

Government watchdog WorkSafe investigated the incident, and found Otis had adequate systems in place to ensure technicians were safe. Otis protocols meant technicians were trained to either shut the lift off completely in the machine room, or use two inde-pendent means to stop it. This included using a pit switch, which is at the entrance to the lift pit.

WorkSafe found Scheib either thought he had en-gaged the pit switch, or knocked it accidentally, caus-ing the lift to restart. While WorkSafe found the indus-try's voluntary code of practice was inadequate, it made the decision not to lay charges against Otis.

Perhaps the RSA Lift Industry should introduce

such a cellphone system for their workers, espe-

cially now that service assistants have technical-

ly been withdrawn in our Industry! (Ed)

CALL FOR ARTICLES ...

Do you have an amusing story about something

that has happened to you whilst carrying out

your role as an Engineer Surveyor (including lift

inspectors), I am sure you do!

Please can you share them with us so that we

can include them in the Bulletin. Please send

them to ...

geoff.hayward@allianz.co.uk

COFFIN AT ROADSIDE Sent in by Willem du Toit

I was carrying out periodic lift inspections on the North-West Province silos, between Wolmaranstad and Ma-quassie, when I passed this coffin. I couldn’t believe what I saw, so braked and reversed back … On closer inspection it was found to be a real bona fide coffin. It had apparently not been used before, for there certainly was no sign of a body having been transported in it. Did it fall off a truck I thought? In any case makes one think who would leave it out there in the bundu and still tie it to a game-farm’s boundary fence.

I surmised that it was probably only superstition that stopped it from being nicked and used for the purpose for which it was manufactured in the first place, for its quality indicated that it certainly was not a cheapy.

UK REGULATORY HEALTH & SAFETY NEWS ...

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SANAS COMMUNICATIONS ...

SANAS would like to take this opportunity and thank you for availing yourself to attend the 2019 Commu-nications meeting. The purpose of these annual meetings is to inform stakeholders on the latest develop-ments with regards to accreditation matters.

The presentations are now available on the Website. We had great discussions, suggestions that will assist SANAS to move forward. Thank you for your feedback it is critical in our on-going effort to improve these annual meetings. We really appreciate your contributions and we are certain that we are building strong relations and work together in future. Thank you again for being part of such productive meeting. Yours sincerely, SANAS Communications and Marketing Team

New SANAS offices in Equestria, Lynnwood, Pretoria

NEW MINISTER of TRADE and INDUSTRY

Mr Ibrahim Patel is our new Minister of Trade and Industry. Previously he was

the Minister of Economic Development from 2009 < 2019.

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Guidelines on Decision Rules and Statements of Conformity

ILAC-G8:09/2019

ILAC is the global association for the accreditation of laboratories, inspection

bodies, proficiency testing providers and reference material producers, with a

membership consisting of accreditation bodies and stakeholder organisations

throughout the world.

It is a representative organisation that is involved with:

the development of accreditation practices and procedures,

the promotion of accreditation as a trade facilitation tool,

supporting the provision of local and national services,

the assistance of developing accreditation systems,

the recognition of competent testing (including medical) and calibration laboratories, inspection bod-

ies, proficiency testing providers and reference material producers around the world.

ILAC actively cooperates with other relevant international organisations in pursuing these aims.

ILAC facilitates trade and supports regulators by operating a worldwide mutual recognition arrangement –

the ILAC Arrangement - among Accreditation Bodies (ABs). The data and test results issued by laborato-

ries, and inspection bodies, collectively known as Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs), accredited by

ILAC Accreditation Body members are accepted globally via the ILAC Arrangement. Thereby, technical

barriers to trade, such as the re-testing of products each time they enter a new economy is reduced, in sup-

port of realising the free-trade goal of “accredited once, accepted everywhere”.

In addition, accreditation reduces risk for business and its customers by assuring that accredited CABs are

competent to carry out the work they undertake within their scope of accreditation. Further, the results from

accredited facilities are used extensively by regulators for the public benefit in the provision of services that

promote an unpolluted environment, safe food, clean water, energy, health and social care services.

Accreditation Bodies that are members of ILAC and the CABs they accredit, are required to comply with

appropriate international standards and the applicable ILAC application documents for the consistent imple-

mentation of those standards.

Accreditation Bodies having signed the ILAC Arrangement are subject to peer evaluation via formally es-

tablished and recognised regional cooperation bodies using ILAC rules and procedures prior to becoming a

signatory to the ILAC Arrangement.

The ILAC website provides a range of information on topics covering accreditation, conformity assessment,

trade facilitation, as well as the contact details of members. Further information to illustrate the value of

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research can also be found at www.publicsectorassurance.org.

For more information, please contact:

The ILAC Secretariat

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ILAC encourages the authorised reproduction of its publications, or parts thereof, by organisations wishing to

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statement acknowledging ILAC’s contribution to the document. Forwarded by Linda Grundlingh, c/o SANAS

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ELEVATOR REGULATIONS SAFETY

Mr Jacob Malatse -

Director Electrical Engineering DEL

Mr Malatse presented the current state of regu-

lations and standards in the South African Lift

Industry. In summary, his overheads included ..

BACKGROUND:

Regulations published 2010 ...

Guidelines published 2015 ...

Review schedule of standards on-going.

MAJOR SHIFT:

Inspection and Test regime from 36-24

Safety Gears to bge tested annually ...

Introduction of AIA (inspection body) ...

Incorporation of more standards ...

Incorporation of Goods Hoists : Repeal

of Reg.17 from Driven Machinery Regula-

tions (compliance) due November 2020.

CHALLENGES:

Disfunctional lifts at hijacked buildings,

especially in KZN and Gauteng ...

Low level of Maintenance ...

Lack of national or international standard

for lifts inside wind turbines ...

Application for exemption of lifts that do

not comply to a standard ...

Capacity ...

Aging …

End-user not actively involved.

DOL INSPECTORATE:

Specialists - 9

Principal Inspectors - 13

OHS Inspectors - 85

CONSULTAION with STAKEHOLDERS:

Conference 2004 - Presented the Draft

Regulations

Stakeholder Forum meetings - 2 per an-

num

Consulation with various Associations

Workshop June 2018 …

- state of new installations

- development of people joining industry

- Inspection Body must switch off un-

safe installations

1st AIA Workshop 31st July 2019 ...

- Code of Practice for AIA necessary

AIA’s (Approved Inspection Authority)

SANAS is member of ILAC, IAF, AFRAC

AIA’s introduced 2012 …

Accreditation is about systems …

Third party inspections …

Industry matures …

Credibility of records …

Inspection bodies registered - 18 ...

Requirements for accreditation …

- (RLI) Lift Inspectors (amongst others)

MAINTENANCE of INSTALLATIONS:

Availablity of Lift Mechanics questiona-

ble

Record Books to comprehensively reflect

work carried out …

Development of maintenance personnel ..

Information nsharing amongs compa-

nies.

DEVELOPMENTS:

Code of Practice for inspection and test-

ing is being developed …

Guidelines will be reviewed …

Code of Practice for lifts inside wind tur-

bines to be published …

SANS 50081-20 & 50 fully effective 29 No-

vember 2019.

RSA LIFT EXPO PRESENTATIONS ... 27th August 2019RSA LIFT EXPO PRESENTATIONS ... 27th August 2019

SHORT TERM:

Registration of Maintenance Providers

Deregistration of lifts not in use …

Strengthen inspection (by DoL) of lifts, es-

pecially following reports from Inspection

Service Providers (AIA’s) …

Registration of Goods Hoists …

Utilise Case management system.

LONG TERM:

Lift Inspectors to countersign the (Annex

‘A’) commioning report …

Inspection Service Providers (AIA’s) to

submit annual reports to DoL …

Auditing of AIA’s.

RSA LIFT INDUSTRY OVERVIEW

Mr Hennie Hudson

Lift Engineering Consultant

UNITS (Estimated):

±45 000 units including Goods Access Only

lifts & Escalators )figures are vague due to

lack of DoL records …

±1 500 units per year (New & Full replace-

ment at present …

Drivers :

- Investors …

- Government …

- Rand ...

- Full replacements

CHINA:

± 90% of lift & escalator equipment now

imported from China …

Multi-nationals import all their equipment

and no longer manufacture in South Africa,

also sourcing ±90% from China & Europe ..

Only a couple of local independent compa-

nies still have factories, but only contribute

to a small margin in the industry …

China “EN” (CCCs) compliancy vs EN com-

pliancy …

- Smaller companies using Chinese?

- Local modifications … does the factory

approve?

- Quality control and back-up on the after

-sales side?

Requirements for South Africa is 20<25

year life cycle expectancy ...

NEW INSTALLATIONS / UPGRADES / FULL

REPLACEMENTS:

Estimates of the New Elevator Market vs

Replacement … ± 65% vs 35% …

Maturity of the Replacement Market …

Residential Market (Opportunity) …

Full Replacements vs Upgrades (drivers) …

- Energy efficiency …

- Best suitable size (production line vs

flexible sizes) …

- Skills (upgrade old/new) ...

- Price ...

TECHNOLOGY:

MRL (machine-room-less) ±80% of market ..

V3F Drives/Energy efficiency …

Destination Control (more on high-rise) …

Power issues (ESKOM load shedding) …

- Damaged equipment …

- Safety to users ...

Hydraulic technology not a favourate tech-

nology in SA due to …

- Skills / Know-how.

CONSTRUCTION:

Subcontracting … 80%+

Safety …

- Installation methodology …

- In-house training …

- Non-qualified installers …

- Only need to be ‘deemed competent’ …

- no certification required …

SANS (South Africa National Standards):

SANS adopted the EN Standards - now

called SANS 50081-1 … Continued overleaf >

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Continuation of Hennie Hudson’s presentation >

From September 2019 all passenger eleva-

tors ‘sold’ in South African market to com-

ply to Parts 20 & 50 …

Highlights …

- Part 5 Goods Access only lifts …

- Part 72 ‘Fire Fighting’ lifts …

- Lifts in wind turbine towers …

- Latest Building Standards 10400 …

DOL (Department of Labour):

OHSAct of September 2010 …

Minimum requirements for ‘Goods Access

Only’ lifts installed prior to 2015 (hoists) …

Year 2020 all Goods Access Only lifts need

to be registered …

The Annexure documents 1545 are now

part of the OHSAct and no longer SANS …

Annex ’B’ - 2010 now 24-month intervals ..

60-Days to get Annexure items completed ..

Challenges … New equipment - Exemp-

tions - Directives.

LIFT COMPANIES:

Skills …

Previous Category 3 issues …

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COUNTRY LIFT INSPECTIONS ...

Travelling down to the Free State for in-

spections in Bethlehem and Clarens, the

‘Sentinel’ at Golden Gate National Park is

as magnificent as ever. Its beauty on the

border between South Africa and the

mountain kingdom of Lesotho remains as

awe-inspiring as visitors have witnessed

it for millennia.

The green valleys contrasting with the

golden luminescence of the hills makes

for a photographer’s dream as one en-

deavours to encapsulate this contrast in

a feast of beauty within a photograph.

As we wind our way down through the twist-

ing and turning mountainside road back to

our B&B in Bethlehem, the last rays of the

setting sun deliver up this bonus of a volu-

minous 3D cloud formation that forced us to

stop in wonderment. Quickly the tulip-

yellow changed to orange … then to blood-

red … and finally to grey as night set in …

all in a matter of a scant few minutes.

What a beautiful revelation of the Creator’s

magic, producing such a plethora of colour

that you see through the lens of your eyes

… but witness with your heart.

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DOL TRANSPARENCY ...

This photo sent in by Mr Hlaks Monyaki, illustrates a

recent DoL Workshop, with the focus on young tech-

nical trainees. This student was demonstrating a new

-technology hovercraft. From LtoR is Mr Monyaki, the

student and Mr Jakes Malatse.

Not to be missed in the background, are the DoL

‘Vision’ and ‘Mission’ statements.

Seen on 27th August at the Lift Expo held in the

Sandton Convention Centre, are Minister T Nxesi

(Employment & Labour) and Ms Anitha Ragunath

(Director Virgo Communications) who co-ordinated

the recent SA Lift Expo … both observing new lift

technology demonstrations. In this case Schindler

was demonstrating their new destination control,

operating as an integral part of a commercial build-

ing’s security access control.

Educom was promised a full writeup on this new-

technology system for open release in the next issue.

Awaited with bated breath ...

Seen at the lift Expo were Ben Mkhonza of Sephula Elevators, now a recognized AIA; John Steens-

ma of NASA Elevators … still going strong at 74 but busy handing the business over to his son; and

well-known Bill Murphy, proprietor of Projitech Consultant Lift Engineers. Bill was an exhibitor, ply-

ing his professional services as an AIA lift inspection service provider.

DEPARTMENT of LABOUR DEPARTMENT of LABOUR -- Workshops ...Workshops ...

IFE EXHIBITS AT LIFT EXPO ...

We visited several local independent lift and esca-lator service providers at the Expo, requesting each exhibiter to forward us data of their equip-ment and their company. This flyer was received from Suresh Raj-money, Sales and Development Director for IFE.

With the other local inde-pendents visited at the Expo, it immediately be-came evident that most of them were importing full CKD kits from Europe and Asia-Pacific, for in-stallation in South Africa. It is no longer viable for them to manufacture lo-cally as before when they mixed and matched. This tends to level the lift mar-keting playing field when competing against the multi-national lift compa-nies.

Apart from Schindler’s large exposition, the oth-er multi-nationals were conspicuous by their ab-sence. On the obverse of the coin, we visited over a dozen Chinese exhibi-tors, with many of the names totally foreign to us in South Africa. It was obvious that a concerted effort had been made to introduce these lift equip-ment suppliers to the South African Lift Market.

Just a pity so few lift owners, developers and facility mainte-nance company repre-sentatives attended the Expo.

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Overheard at an Expo coffee vending machine … “Is the absence

of the multi-nationals at our first-ever Expo, not reflective of the

esteem in which they appear to hold the South African lift indus-

try?”

ABCD

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LIASA AGM WEDNESDAY 9th OCTOBER 2019 @ THE HITECH TRAINING ACCADEMY IN MARAISBURG

YOUR LIASA EXCOM EXTEND THIS SPECIFIC INVITATION TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE LIFT FRATERNITY TO ATTEND OUR ANNAUL AGM FOR FEEDBACK ON OUR

PROJECTS IN 2019, BUT MORE SPECIFICALLY TO HEAR WHAT IS BEING PROGRAMMED FOR 2020 - A REGULATORY WATERSHED

YEAR IN OUR SOUTH AFRICAN LIFT INDUSTRY.

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ELEVATOR WORLD December Issue

Escalators and Moving Walks

In addition to featuring a Focus Topic on Escalators and

Moving Walks, our December issue will celebrate excel-

lence in the vertical transportation industry as we high-

light all the winners of Elevator World's second-annual

Elevator Industry Awards -- the ELLIES.

Deadline for advertising: 1 November 2019

Deadline to submit editorial: 15 October 2019

This 66 year old AC Sin-gle-Speed geared lift drive lift installed by Schindler-Davies in 1953 is still in an as-original condition.

The original relay-logic control and mechanical rope-driven selector were replaced in March 2014 by independent service provider Peter Guthrie of ‘Racklift’. The control is now PLC-logic with frequency control for the drive, obviously including new car and landing ‘Elemod’ call-buttons, with total rewire and trailing cables.

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LIFT PRODUCT QUALITY LIFT PRODUCT QUALITY -- The Old vs the New ...The Old vs the New ...

There cannot be many such ‘Schindler-Davies’ lift installations left in South Africa, as Schindler RSA became a wholly owned representative subsidiary of Schindler CH (Switzerland) in 1954. Still with the original gear-case and drive sheave, this installation stands for quality of product with its 66-year life cycle to date. Again proves the old maxim of a quality product receiving quality preventative maintenance service extending the useful life of such a lift.

Also inspected this month, is this Schindler installation in Kimberley, serviced by Gerhard Hat-tingh. It is the latest Schindler technology MRL with AC V3F gearless belt drive … Comparing these two installations is neither practical nor viable as the technologies are eons apart. Of one thing we are sure ... that this latest installation will not last an identical 66 years. The Swiss de-sign parameters of yesteryear, especially of strength of materials, is certainly different to the Chinese manufacture parameters from where this latest lift was sourced. We would even ven-ture that the definitions of quality from today to yesteryear cannot be construed as identical ...

ABCD

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SANAS COMMUNICATIONS SANAS COMMUNICATIONS …… (continued)

Guidance on Measurements

Performed as part of an

Inspection Process

ILAC-G27:07/2019

Note the growth in the ‘Inspection’ cadre of accredited CAB’s … inclusive of Lift AIA’s

‘WHAT IS RISK’ - Risk is defined in the business directory as …

A more formal definition is available from ISO 31000:2018 …

‘RISK’ … is the effect of uncertainty on outcomes ...

LIASA NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

National Executive Chairman - Sanjeev Singh - 083 789 9455

Nat. Executive Deputy Chairman - Clifford Kleinhans - 084 089 5872

Nat. Executive Secretary - Bonnie Peden - 0823 536 2579

Nat. Executive Treasurer - Mickey Martin - 082 330 2126

Regional Chairman Western Cape (Cape Town) - Vacant

Reg. Chairman Eastern Cape (PE) - Brandon Brown - 076 737 8673

Reg. Chairman K.Z.Natal (Durban) - Sanjeev Singh - 083 789 9455

Reg. Chairman Free State (Bloemfontein) - Vacant

Reg. Chairman Northern Gauteng - Willem du Toit - 083 693 473

Additional Excom Members 2019/20 : Willem du Toit; Hennie Hudson Gilbert Legodi & Wesley Williams

Ex Officio Immediate Past Chairman - Ronnie Branders

Ex Officio Past Chairman - Dr Theo Kleinhans

PAST & CURRENT CHAIRMEN: Steve le Roux (1995-7)†: Dr Theo Kleinhans (1997-2003); Ben Peyper (2003-6)†; Sanjeev Singh (2006-15); Ronnie Branders (2015-18); Sanjeev Singh (2018-

HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS: Eddie Cook (2017); Mannie Perreira (2017);

DOYENS OF THE LIFT INDUSTRY AWARDS: Buddie Cerone (2004)†;

Schalk van der merwe (2005)†; Dr Theo Kleinhans (2006 & 2011); Wil-lem du Toit (2008 & 2015); Bruno Isler (2009 & 2016); Alfie da Sil-va (2010); Manny Perreira (2010); Peter Murray (2012); Sanjeev

Singh (2013); Rodney Coetzee (2014)†; Billy Clifton (2014); Mickey Martin (2017);

LIASA CONSTITUTED MARCH 1996

Lift Inspectors Association of South Africa Lift Inspectors Association of South Africa

Stats BuildingStats Building Suite 108, 1Suite 108, 1stst FloorFloor

2 Fore Street, Alberton, 14502 Fore Street, Alberton, 1450 Tel: (011) 907 0133 Tel: (011) 907 0133 Fax: (011) 907 0131 Fax: (011) 907 0131

Email: Email: iliasa@zamail.co.zailiasa@zamail.co.za Website: Website: www.iliasa.org.zawww.iliasa.org.za

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LIASA MEETING SCHEDULE 2019

AGM Meeting - Wednesday 9th October @ 09:00

All future LIASA meetings will be held at … HI-TECH TRAINING ACADEMY, 1327 SPYKER CRES., STORMHILL

(Maraisburg - just off Main Reef Road)

Go to Google-maps on your cellphone if you get lost!

LIFT INSPECTORS’ COURSES 2019

We still await the TUT course dates for 2019, but sug-

gest that you contact Antoinette directly at …

marnewecka@tut.ac.za

Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)

Private Bag X680, Pretoria, 0001.

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Mechatronics and Industrial Design (B3-329)

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment.

“Short Learning Program (SLP) : Lift Regulations

Preparation for Registration with ECSA”

Application form to be completed

(remember to attach a copy of your ID document)

Please note that the course will consist of a maxi-

mum 20 candidates, meaning a speedy response.

LIASA is recognised by ECSA as a Voluntary Association to represent the ECSA registered RLI’s

LIASA NOMINATIONS for OFFICE and

MERIT AWARDS

We regret to advise that not one single nomi-

nation was received for consideration and

recognition at the October AGM!