Commercial Lifts for Offices, Retail & Public Buildings
High-capacity, energy-efficient vertical transport engineered for demanding commercial environments. From high-speed corporate passenger lifts and retail goods elevators to DDA platform lifts, Sheridan Lifts delivers bespoke design, turnkey installation, 24/7 reactive repairs, and statutory LOLER compliance nationwide.
Offices
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Retail
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Multi-tenant
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Managing agents
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Part M
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EN 81-20
High-performance mobility engineered for business continuity.
In a commercial building the lift is judged twice a day, by everybody, at the same time. Waiting times at the morning peak shape how tenants feel about the whole building — and they are decided by capacity and control, not by finish.
We size lifts against real occupancy figures and we will tell you
when a building needs a second car rather than a faster one.
- Traffic analysis against real occupancy before anything is specified
- Maintenance scheduled outside tenant working hours
- Interiors specified to match the lobby, not a catalogue
- Goods and passenger movement separated where it pays to
Front of house and back of house.
Most commercial buildings need both, and the mistake is making one lift do both jobs.
The main circulation lift. Sized on handling capacity at peak rather than headline speed, and finished to sit alongside the reception it opens into.
Moves stock, deliveries and people in one shaft. Saves the floor area a second lift would cost and keeps trolleys out of the main lobby.
Required above certain building heights, with protected lobby, secondary power supply and dedicated controls tested on a set interval.
Downtime is a lettings problem.
An unreliable lift shows up in tenant satisfaction long before it shows up in the maintenance budget. It is one of the few building services every occupier notices daily.
We schedule planned work outside occupancy hours and phase multi-car
buildings so a lift is always running.
The lift is on the critical path.
Controllers and car interiors are long-lead items. On refurbishments they are the thing most likely to hold up a handover date.
We order long-lead items before the lift comes out of service, and we work to the programme rather than around it.
What a commercial building is expected to hold.
Passenger lifts
LOLER 1998
Goods passenger lifts
LOLER 1998
Firefighting lift test
EN 81-72
Peak handling capacity
CIBSE D
Target waiting interval
Prime office
Service lifts in hospitality typically run several times the duty cycle of the guest lift. We recommend maintenance frequency by measured use rather than by lift type.
Thorough examination at statutory intervals, carried out and certified in house.
Current lift safety standard for design and installation, with declaration of conformity at handover.
Accessibility — car dimensions, controls, signals and door dwell times.
Firefighting lifts, including secondary supply and protected lobby requirements.
Safe working on lifts — the code of practice our engineers work to on every site.
Accredited environmental and occupational health and safety management systems.
Commercial projects
Both passenger lifts modernised over eight weeks with one car in service throughout.
Goods passenger lift installed to move stock and staff without crossing the shop floor.
Maintenance contract taken over from the original installer across three passenger lifts.
Control panels, signalling and door timings brought up to Part M across four buildings.
Tell us the morning peak.
We will size it.
Occupancy, floor count and arrival pattern are enough for us to say whether your building is short of lift capacity.