Elevator Modernization and Upgrading

Repetitive repairs and constant shutdowns are just a few of the warning signs that your elevator is in desperate need of a modernization. Upgrading existing equipment is the best way to incorporate the newest advances in passenger safety, efficiency, and reliability. Modernization improves elevator comfort, performance, passenger safety, and esthetics -- all good business decisions for your real estate investment.

Customized solutions for every situation

Three floors or forty, a rated speed of 150 or 550 fpm, every elevator system is unique. That’s why Vessco Elevator Contractors takes the time to create customized upgrading solutions that best fit your equipment. No matter who the original manufacturer was, we have a wide range of capabilities to help you bring older, inefficient systems up to today’s elevator standards. We’re in business to help you save money and energy, improve service, and boost tenant satisfaction and safety.

Improving passenger safety

Safety is one of the most important things to consider when you decide to improve your system. Elevators not equipped with today’s technologies can be dangerous, with unexpected shutdowns, uneven floor landings, unreliable emergency phones, and doors that are unresponsive to passenger movement. Our modernization solutions can address all of these problems.

Improving efficiency and reliability

Inefficient elevator systems waste energy and money, and their long wait times and slow travel speeds cause constant tenant unrest. Vessco Elevator Contractors can improve your elevator efficiency in a number of ways, from simply adjusting existing equipment to replacing the system’s “brains” with a new, non-proprietary microprocessor-based control system. Upgrading your system will result in reduced energy consumption, smoother and quieter rides, improved traveling speeds, shorter wait times, drastically reduced repair costs, and happier passengers.

A commitment to non-proprietary equipment

With non-proprietary equipment, building managers who become dissatisfied with their maintenance contractor cannot be held hostage by an installer. That’s why Vessco Elevator Contractors insists on installing only non-proprietary elevator controls. This means there are no company-specific tools, devices, passwords, or software necessary to install and/or maintain the equipment. An elevator company that specifies non-proprietary equipment is displaying the ultimate confidence in their service.

Hydraulic Pumping Units

Hydraulic elevator valves and pumping units may need to be partially or fully replaced. Frequent re-leveling, over heating, and erratic stopping at floor levels may indicate that this type of modernization is required. Options available for this type of modernization include:

• Replacement of the entire pumping unit(tank, motor, pump, and valve)

• Replacement of the control valve

• Replacement of the pump and motor.

Controller Replacement

Controller components eventually become obsolete even though elevators have a relatively long service life. When this occurs, the solution is to replace the controller with a state-of-the-art control system. Vessco Elevator Contractors has the expertise and knowledge to replace virtually any control system with the right controller from lifts for the physically challenged to high-speed passenger elevators.

Machine Replacement

A traction elevator machine may sustain sufficient degradation and obsolescence over a number of years that will require it to be modernized. A complete machine replacement or a partial modernization, such as converting from a DC voltage drive to a variable frequency drive, is possible.