Planning Guide for Escalators and Moving Walks
Planning Guide for Escalators and Moving Walks
Escalators and moving walks are crucial in architectural design, especially in commercial environments, by enhancing the movement of people across floors. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of planning and implementing these systems to ensure efficient people flow and business success.
- Commercial Sector: They increase customer density and sales, as seen in department and food stores.
- Public Sector: Essential for transporting large numbers of people efficiently, with customized solutions for public facilities.
- Advantages: High transportation capacity, continuous movement, and even floor usage.
- Positioning: Strategic placement within buildings is crucial, avoiding distances over 50 meters.
- Escalators vs. Moving Walks: Moving walks are preferred for transporting carts.
- Quantity and Arrangement: Depends on building type, peak traffic, and customer turnover. Arrangements include single units, continuous, interrupted, parallel, and crisscross configurations.
- Inclination and Widths: Standard inclinations are 30° and 35° for escalators, and 10° to 12° for moving walks. Step widths vary from 600 to 1000 mm for escalators and 1000 to 1400 mm for moving walks.
- Speed: Optimal speed is 0.5 m/s for continuous flow, with higher speeds for extreme capacity needs.
- Standards: Compliance with EN 115-1 for safe design and installation.
- Accessibility: Not suitable for wheelchairs or baby carriages; signage recommended.
- Space Requirements: Adequate free space at landings and overhead clearance are essential for safety.
- Safety Features: Balustrade heights range from 900 to 1100 mm, with recommendations based on fall heights.
- Customer Responsibilities: Include site preparations and providing suspension points.
- Installation Process: Covers production release, site preparation, transportation, and final installation.
SchindlerDraw offers interactive configuration tools to assist in planning.
A checklist is provided to ensure all planning aspects are covered.
Overhead clearance must be at least 2.3 meters, and horizontal clearance from the handrail to walls or obstacles must be at least 80 mm. Schindler escalators and moving walks meet these safety clearances.
Required in crisscross patterns or near floor openings if the distance to obstacles is less than 400 mm.
Structural measures, including protective barriers and guards, are necessary to prevent side access to escalators or moving walks.
Customers must install railings at escalator and moving walk accesses, maintaining a distance of at least 80 mm from the handrail.
Schindler offers energy-saving packages for three operating modes: continuous operation, stop & go, and continuous operation with crawling. The ECO Premium Plus package combines these modes for maximum energy efficiency.
Outdoor installations require special measures for weather protection. Moving walks must accommodate specific shopping and baggage carts, adhering to EN standards.
Schindler offers various escalator and moving walk models, such as the 9300AE, 9700, and 9500AE, each suited for different applications like retail or public transportation.
Proper planning for transportation and installation is crucial. Escalators/moving walks are preassembled, requiring careful coordination for moving into buildings.
Electrical connections are made at the upper station, with customer-provided supply. Optional sprinkler systems and oil separators may be required, especially for outdoor installations.
From production release to final installation, detailed planning and site inspections ensure proper setup.
Suspension points with a load-bearing capacity of at least 50 kN are necessary. If not provided, installation scaffolds are used.
After installation, a thorough check is conducted during a test run. Customer documentation and keys are provided at handover.
SchindlerDraw is recommended for project-specific configurations.
Key points include approval of layout drawings, pit dimensions, rise, support distance, electrical feed lines, and other necessary services provided by the customer.
Detailed specifications for various Schindler escalator models, including maximum rise, balustrade design, step width, and transportation dimensions.
Specifications, options, and colors are indicative and subject to change without notice.
- Dimensions: Detailed dimensions for escalators and moving walks, including widths between handrails and pit dimensions.
- Maximum Span and Rise: Limiting span length is specified as 16300 mm and 15000 mm, with a maximum rise of 9300 mm and 7500 mm.
- Support Loads: Details support loads for various components.
- Outdoor Installations: A water drain must be provided over the entire length of the concrete pit.
- Parallel Installations: Drive stations must be mounted on the same end.
- Support Surface: The entire support surface must be smooth and level.
- Balustrade Design: The balustrade height is specified as 1000 mm.
- Inclination and Speed: Inclination ranges from 0° to 30°, with speeds between 0.5 m/s and 0.65 m/s.
- Compliance: All dimensions are in mm, and national regulations must be observed.
- Contact Schindler: For support loads, motor ratings, transportation dimensions, and other specifications.
- Changes and Availability: Specifications are subject to change, and availability and delivery dates should be confirmed with the supplying factory.
Schindler, founded in Switzerland in 1874, is a leading manufacturer of elevators and escalators, with subsidiaries in over 100 countries.
Catalog excerpts
Planning Guide for Escalators and Moving Walks The Best Solution Requires Step-By-Step Preparation Schindler Escalators and Moving Walks Schindler
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Planning Guide for Escalators and Moving Walks
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Why Escalators and Moving Walks Matter - Commercial Sector - Public Sector - Escalators, Moving Walks, and Elevators Basic Planning - Positioning Escalators or Moving Walks Within a Building - Escalators or Moving Walks? - How Many Escalators or Moving Walks? - Arrangement of Escalators and Moving Walks - Proper Inclination - Optimal Step/Pallet Widths - Optimal Speed Detailed Planning 14 - Standards - Transportation of Disabled Persons, Transportation of Baby Carriages - Space Requirement - Safety, Regulation-Compliant - Operating Modes - Special Applications The Best Product for Your Premises 21...
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No invention has had more of an influence on shopping than the escalator. Over the past 100 years, the escalator has opened up a whole new world as a simple means of connecting different floors, a world we now move around in as a matter of course. The escalator was the most radical element in this architectural change process, and even today it is still the most popular installation in our retail environment – even if it is the one least perceived by its users. Escalators and moving walks still play a key role in transporting large numbers of people. Planning escalators and moving walks correctly...
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Why Escalators and Moving Walks Matter Commercial Sector Escalators and moving walks are used to increase customer density and thus help boost sales in buildings used for commercial purposes. The following examples taken from everyday practice clearly illustrate how and why: been installed for space reasons. Even after the elevators had been in operation for some time, the scheduled sales figures on the upper floor were not achieved due to insufficient customer flow. Once moving walks were installed, sales increased several-fold. Example 1: Department Store A six-story department store in the...
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Why Escalators and Moving Walks Matter Public Sector Transporting large numbers of people efficiently is the top priority in public transportation. Schindler offers customized solutions for this area of application. Our escalator experts can tell you all about the special configuration options. Escalators, Moving Walks, and Elevators In the commercial sector, escalators and moving walks as well as elevators ensure a smooth traffic flow. Our experts will suggest the right choice and combination to suit your specific requirements. Planning Guide for Escalators and Moving Walks Advantages of escalators...
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Basic Planning Positioning Escalators or Moving Walks Within a Building Basically, to achieve optimal customer density, the movement of customers within the building has to be facilitated. Distances in excess of 50 meters should be avoided on commercial premises and in office buildings. The charts below show basic escalator arrangements. Customer circulation on sales premises depends on different criteria, such as the layout of the goods on sale. Fast-selling goods are usually sold in areas that are farther away from escalators. We recommend working closely with specialized store fitters or planners....
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Basic Planning Once the transportation requirements have been stipulated, you can determine the number of escalators or moving walks required. Our experts will be happy to advise you. The theoretical transportation capacity depends on the width and speed of the escalators. The effective transportation capacity is between 40 and 80 percent of the theoretical transportation capacity depending on user density and step width. The capacity of moving walks is calculated accordingly, taking into account transportation of shopping and baggage carts. Step width Theoretical transportation capacity Arrangement...
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Interrupted Arrangement (One-Way Traffic) While relatively inconvenient for the user, for the owner of the department store it provides the advantage that due to the spatial separation of the upward and downward directions, customers have to walk past specially placed merchandise displays. Parallel, Interrupted Arrangement (Two-Way Traffic) This arrangement is used mainly in department stores and public transportation buildings with heavy traffic volumes. When there are three or more escalators or moving walks, it should be possible to reverse the direction of travel depending on the traffic...
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Proper Inclination Escalators Inclinations of 30° and 35° are the common international standard for escalators. 30° Inclination This inclination provides the highest traveling comfort and maximum safety for the user. 35° Inclination The 35° escalator is the most space-efficient solution. However, this inclination is perceived as too steep if rises exceed 6 m - particularly in downward travel. According to EN 115-1, a 35° inclination is not permissible for rises above 6 m. Moving Walks Inclinations of 10°, 11°, and 12° are the common international standard for inclined moving walks. Users find...
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Optimal Step/Pallet Widths Escalators Escalators are available with step widths of 600, 800 and 1000 mm. The most popular step width is 1000 mm. This step width gives the user unimpeded access to the step band, even with baggage and shopping bags. The other two step widths are used mainly for less frequented units or where space is restricted. Moving Walks Moving walks are suitable for transporting shopping or baggage carts. Inclined moving walks are available with pallet widths of 1000 mm and 1100 mm. A moving walk width of 1100 mm is generally recommended as the pallets should always be at...
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Optimal Speed Speed not only has a considerable impact on the potential transportation capacity of escalators and moving walks, it also influences the space requirements. The tables below summarize the different product configurations depending on speed. 0.5 m/s for Continuous Customer Flow This is the optimal speed for all escalators and moving walks in the commercial sector. The combination of sufficient transportation capacity, optimal safety, and minimum space requirement makes this speed the worldwide standard for this application. Rise Speed Maximum Horizontal Radii of curvature...
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