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Lifts Installation Standards

These are the Lifts Installation Standards

Lifts, escalators and/or moving walks are integral to most high-rise buildings across Australia.

The Lifts Installation set covers the safe construction and installation of lifts, escalators and moving walks as well as standards for measuring energy performance.

The set supports electricians, engineers, safety inspectors and officers.

Available in the Lifts installation set.

Name Publisher
AS 1735.1.1:2022 Lifts, escalators and moving walks, Part 1.1: General requirements
Current
Standards Australia
AS 1735.1.1:2022 sets out uniform requirements and defines terms for lifts, escalators and moving walks in the AS 1735 series.
AS 1735.1:2016 Lifts, escalators and moving walks, Part 1: General requirements
Superseded
Standards Australia
Provides general requirements, including definitions of terms, relevant to various Parts of the AS 1735 series.
AS 1735.12:2020 Lifts, escalators and moving walks, Part 12: Facilities for persons with disabilities (EN 81-70:2018, MOD)
Current
Standards Australia
Adopts EN 81-70:2018 with modifications for Australia, which specifies the minimum requirements for the safe and independent access and use of lifts by a wide range of persons, including persons with disabilities.
AS 1735.19:2019 Lifts, escalators and moving walks, Part 19: Safety rule for the construction and installation of lifts - Lifts for the transport of persons and goods - Remote alarm on passenger and goods passenger lifts
Current
Standards Australia
Specifies requirements for alarm systems for all types of passenger and goods passenger lifts; deals with the minimum information to be provided as part of the instruction manual related to maintenance and the rescue service.
AS 1735.4:2020 Lifts, escalators and moving walks, Part 4: Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts - Electric and hydraulic service lifts
Current
Standards Australia
Identically adopts EN 81 3:2000+A1:2008, specifying safety rules for the construction and installation of permanently installed new electric service lifts with traction or positive drive, or hydraulic service lifts defined as lifting equipment, serving defined landing levels, having a car which is inaccessible, suspended by ropes or chains or supported by a ram and moving between rigid vertical guide rails or guide rails.
AS 4431:2019 Safe working on new lift installations in new constructions
Current
Standards Australia
Specifies safe working provisions and practices for those responsible for, and involved in, new lift installations in new liftwells.
AS 1735.11-1986 SAA Lift Code, Part 11: Fire-rated landing doors
Current
Standards Australia
Sets out requirements for fire-rated landing doors for retarding the passage of fire through openings in fire-rated liftwells; it applies where doors are required to have a fire-rating certificate.