Educational & School Lifts
Safe, durable, and fully accessible vertical transport engineered for primary schools, secondary academies, colleges, and university campuses. Built with vandal-resistant finishes, enhanced DBS-checked engineering teams, holiday installation programmes, and statutory LOLER compliance nationwide.
Schools
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Colleges
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Universities
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Part M
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Equality Act
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DBS checked
Safe, inclusive, and durable lift solutions for modern education.
Modern schools, colleges, and university campuses are bustling, multi-storey environments where hundreds of students, teachers, and visitors move between classrooms and lecture theatres in tight lesson changeovers. Ensuring barrier-free, independent access for pupils with special educational needs (SEN), wheelchair users, and injured staff is not only a vital commitment to inclusivity, it is a strict statutory duty under the Equality Act 2010.
Sheridan Lifts provides dependable, durable, and safe vertical transport solutions tailored specifically to the UK education sector. Whether you are developing a new-build academy or upgrading aging lifts in a multi-level college block, we deliver high-efficiency passenger lifts and space-saving DDA platform lifts engineered for heavy student footfall. Installed and maintained by enhanced DBS-checked engineers, our educational lifts prioritise child safety, energy efficiency, and total statutory compliance.
- All engineers DBS checked as standard on education sites
- Installations programmed into half-term, Easter and summer breaks
- Controls, signalling and door timings specified to Part M
- Written to suit an accessibility plan and its funding cycle
Pupils, equipment, and the buildings you already have.
Most school lift projects are retrofits into buildings that were never designed for one.
The standard answer in newer blocks and larger colleges, sized for class-change peaks rather than average use.
The usual retrofit into an existing building — a compact footprint, no deep pit, and enough capacity for a wheelchair user and an assistant.
Over an entrance step, a half-landing or into a hall. Often the whole answer for a single-storey site with a level change.
Safeguarding comes before the programme.
Engineers on education sites are DBS checked, signed in and escorted to the same standard as any other contractor working near pupils.
Where work has to run in term time, it is hoarded, out of pupil circulation routes, and stopped at the times you tell us to stop.
The quote has to survive a budget cycle.
School capital decisions are made months ahead and often against a fixed accessibility grant. A quote that expires in thirty days is not much use.
We price education work to hold across a planning cycle and we will phase a project across two holidays where the budget needs it.
The duties behind an accessibility plan.
Passenger lifts
LOLER 1998
Platform & step lifts
LOLER 1998
Evacuation lift function test
EN 81-76
Minimum car, Part M
Part M
Planned maintenance visits
By usage
Evacuation of pupils with disabilities is a fire-strategy question as well as a lift one. Where an evacuation lift is specified, its monthly function test sits with the responsible person for the building.
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.
Education projects
Manufacturer-neutral specification and tender review for a new accessible lift in a live school.
Passenger, platform and dumbwaiter lifts examined on their correct separate intervals across the estate.
Platform lift retrofitted into an existing stairwell inside a single summer holiday.
Two platform lifts, up to five people per unit, in a busy children’s centre.
Bring us in at the plan stage.
Not the crisis.
If a pupil starts with you in September, the conversation is easier in October of the year before.