6.3.2.

1 Enclosure Required

(a) Enclosure Required for Elevators Having Non-Fire-Resistive Hoistway Enclosure. Spaces containing
machines, control equipment, sheaves and other machinery shall be enclosed with non-combustible
material extending to a height of not less than 1830mm. Openwork material, if used, shall reject a ball
51mm in diameter.

6.3.2.2 Equipment in Machine Rooms

(a) Equipment Permitted Machinery and Control Spaces. Elevator machine and control equipment may
be located in a room or space containing other machinery and equipment essential to the operation of
the building; provided that they are separated from the other machinery or equipment by a substantial
metal grille enclosure not less than 1830mm high with a self-closing and self-locking door. The grille
enclosures shall be of a design which will reject a ball 51mm in diameter.

(b) Equipment Prohibited in Machine Room. Where the elevator machine control equipment are not
located at the top of the hoistway, only machinery and equipment required for the operation of the
elevator shall be permitted in the elevator machine room.

6.3.2.3

Where machine room are provided over elevator shaftways they shall be substantially counstructed
with sufficient room for repair and inspection and access shall be by means of iron ladder or stairs
where the machine room entrance is more than 600mm above the adjacent floor or roof surface. The
angle of incline of such ladder or stair shall not exceed 60degerees from the horizontal.

6.3.2.4

Landing doors for power driven elevators shall be provided with interlocks to hold the elevator car
immovable while any landing door Is open and to make it impossible to pen any landing door when the
ca is more than 80mm away from the landing except with special emergency key.

6.3.2.5

Landing openings in passenger-elevator hoistway enclosure shall be protected preferably by sliding

doors, combination sliding and swing doors, or swinging doors.

6.3.2.6

Access to Machine Rooms and Machinery Spaces.

(a) General Requirements.

A permanent, safe and convenient means of access to elevator machine rooms and overhead
machinery spaces shall be provided for authorized persons.
(b) Where the passage is over a sloping roof having slope exceeding 15 deg. From the horizontal, an
unobstructed, permanent and substantial walkway not less than 610 mm wide, equipped on at
least one side with a standard railing not less than 1067 mm high, shall be provided from the
building exit door at the roof level to the means of access to machine room or machinery
spaces. Railings shall conform to the requirements of ANSI A12.1
6.3.2.7 Headroom in Machine Rooms and Overhead Machinery Spaces.

Elevator machine rooms and machinery spaces not located over the hoistway shall have a clear
headroom of not less than 2130mm

Where a floor is provided at the top of the hoistway (see Sec 6.3.1.2), elevator machine rooms and
overhead machinery spaces above such floor shall have a clear headroom of not less than the
following:

(a) Machine, control, and motor-generator, rooms, 2130mm

(b) Spaces contacting overhead, secondary or deflecting sheaves, and governors, signal machines,
or other equipment, 1372mm
(c) Spaces containing overhead, secondary and deflecting sheaves, the machine and supporting
beams may encroach on the required headroom provided there is a clearance of not less than
914mm between the underside of such beams and the top of the floor.

6.3.2.8 Lighting and Ventilation of Machine Rooms and Machinery Spaces

(a) Lighting

Permanent electric lighting shall be provided in all machine rooms and machinery spaces

The illumination shall be not less than 108 lux at the floor level. The lighting control switch shall be
located within easy reach of the access to such rooms or spaces.

Where practicable, the light control switch shall be located on the lockjamb side of the access door.

(c) Ventilation for Machinery and Control Equipment.

Machine rooms shall be provided with natural or mechanical ventilation to avoid overheating of the
electrical equipment and to ensure safe and normal operation of the elevator.

6.3.2.9 Storage of Materials in Machine and Control Rooms.

Elevator machine and control rooms shall be maintained and shall not be used for storage of articles
unnecessary for he maintenance or operation of the elevator. Flammable liquids having a flash point
of less than 43.3 degree centigrade shall not be kept in such rooms.

6.3.3 Electrical Wiring, Pipes and Ducts in Hoistway and Machine Rooms

6.3.3.1 Wiring, Raceways, and Cables in Hoistways

Main feeders for supplying power to the elevator shall be installed outside the hoistway.

Only such electrical wiring, raceways, and cables used directly in connection with the elevator,
including wiring for signals, for communication with the car, for lighting, heating, air conditioning,
and ventilating the car, for low voltage fire-detecting systems, for pit sump pumps, and for heating
and lighting the hoistway, may be installed inside the hoistway.
6.3.3.2 Installation of Pipes or Ducts Conveying Gases, Vapor or Liquids in Hoistways, Machine
Rooms, or Machinery Spaces.

Pipes of ducts conveying gases, vapors or liquids and not use in connection with the operation of the
elevator shall not be in any hoistway, machine room or machinery space.

Exceptions

(1) Steam and hot water pipes may be installed in hoistways, machine rooms, and machinery
spaces for the purpose of heating there areas only, subject to the following:
(a) Heating pipes shall convey only low pressure steam (34 KPa or less) or hot water (100
degree centigrade or less)
(b) All risers and return pipes shall be located outside the hoistway.
(c) Traps and shut-off valves shall be provided in accessible locations outside the hoistway.
(2) Ducts for heating, cooling, ventilating and venting these spaces only may be installed in the
machine room and machinery space.
(3) Pipes for sprinklers only may be installed in these subject to the following
(a) All risers and returns shall be located outside there spaces
(b) Branch lines in hoistway shall supply sprinklers at not more than one floor level
(c) Shut off valves shall be provided in accessible locations outside these spaces.
(4) Piping for pit and sump pumps may be installed.

6.3.4 Guarding of Exposed Auxiliary Equipment

6.3.4.1 In machine rooms and secondary machinery spaces, exposed gears, sprockets, tape of rope
sheaves or drums of selectors, floor controllers or signal machines, and their driving ropes, chains or
tapes, shall be guarded to protect against accidental contact.

6.3.5 Machinery and Sheave Beams, Supports and Foundations

6.3.5.1 Beams and Supports Required.

Machines, machinery and sheaves shall be so supported and maintained in place to prevent any part
from becoming loose or displaced under the conditions imposed in service.

Supporting beams, if used, shall be of steel or reinforced concrete. Beams are not required under
machines, sheaves and machinery or control equipment which are supported on floor provided such
floors are designed and installed to support the load imposed thereon.

6.3.5.2 Loads

(a) Overhead Beams, Floors, and their Supports

Overhead beams, floors and their supports shall be designed for not less than the sum of the
following loads:

(1) The loads resting on the beams and supports which shall include the complete weight of the
machine, sheaves, controller, governor and any other equipment together with that portion, if
any of the machine-room floor supported thereon.
 (2) Two times the sum of the tension in all wires ropes supported by the beams with rated load in
the car.
Note: There tensions are doubled to take care of impact, accelerating stresses, etc

(b) Foundations, Beams and Floor for Machinery and Sheaves not located directly over the hoistway.

The supports for machines and sheaves located below or at the sides of the hoistway shall have the
following requirement.

(1) The foundation shall support the total weight of the machine, sheaves and other
equipment, and the floor if any.
(2) The sheaves, beams and the foundation bolts shall withstand two times the vertical
component of the tension in all suspension types on the foundation or beams less the
weight of the machine or sheaves.
(3) The sheave beams and foundation blots shall withstand two times the horizontal
component, if any, of the tension in all suspension ropes passing over sheaves or drums on
the foundation or beams.
(4) The foundation shall withstand two times the over-turning movement, if any, developed bt
the tensions in all the suspension ropes passing over sheaves or drums on the foundations
or beams.

6.3.5 Pits

6.3.6.1 Where required. A pit shall be provided for every elevator.

6.3.6.2 Design and Construction of Pits

(a) The construction of the pit walls, the pit floor, and any pit access doors (see sec. 6.3.6.3) shall
conform to section 6.3.1.1

(b) The floor of the pit shall be approximately level.

(c) Drains connected directly to sewers shall not be installed in elevator pits.

(d) Elevator pits shall be water-proofed with at least 3/16 steel plate on all sides at a height of
not less than 1200mm including the pit floor.

Exception: Sumps with or without pumps may be installed.

6.3.6.3 Access to Pits. Safe and convenient access shall be provided to all pits and shall conform to the
following.

(a) Access shall be by means of the lowest hoistway door or by means of a separate pit access
door.

(b) There shall be installed in the pit of each elevator where the pit extends more than 914mm
below the sill of the pit access door, a fixed vertical ladder on non-combustible material, located within
reach of the access door. The ladder shall extend not less than 1067mm above the sill of the access
door, or handgrips shall be provided to the same height.
 (d) Pits shall be accessible only to authorized persons.

Where a separate pit access door is provided, it shall be self-closing and provided with a spring-type lock
arranged to permit the door or be opened from inside the pit without a key. Such doors shall be kept
locked.

6.3.6.4 illumination of Pits. A permanent lighting fixture shall be provided in all pits, which shall provide
an illumination of not less than 54 lux at the pit floor. A light switch shall be provided and shall be so
located as to be accessible from the pit access door.

6.3.6.5 Stop Switch in Pits. There shall be installed in the pit of each elevator, an enclosed stop switch or
switches, meeting the requirements of section 6.4.11.3

The switch shall be so located as to be accessible from the pit access door. Where access to the pits of
elevator shall be located adjacent to the nearest point of access to its pit from the access door.

6.3.6.6 Minimum Pit Depths Required. The pit depth shall be not less than is required for the location of
the buffers, compensating sheaves if any, and all other elevator equipment located therein, and to
provide the minimum bottom car clearance and runby required by Section 6.3.7.

6.3.7 Bottom and Top Clearances and Runbys for Elevator Cars and Counterweights.

6.3.7.1 Bottom Car Clearances. When the car rests on its fully compressed buffer, there shall be a
vertical clearance of not less than 610mm between the pit floor and the lowest structural or mechanical
part, equipment or device installed beneath the car platform except guide shoes or rollers, safety-jaw
assemblies and platform aprona guards, or other equipment located within 305mm horizontally from
the sides of the car platform.

Trenches and depressions or foundations encroachments permitted by the exceptions in Section 6.3.6.2
shall not be considered in determining this clearance. When the car rests on its fully compressed buffer,
no part of the car or any equipment attached thereto shall strike any part of the equipment located
therein.

6.3.7.2 Bottom Runby for Counterweighted Elevators. The bottom runby of cars and counterweights
shall be not less than the following

(a) Where oil buffers are used, 152mm. Exceptions:

(1) Where practical difficulties prevent a sufficient pit depth or where a top clearance cannot be
provided to obtain the runby specified, it may be reduced.

(2) Where spring-return type oil buffers are used, the runby may be eliminated by amounts not
be eliminated so that the buffers are compressed by amounts not exceeding 610mm when the car floor
is level with the terminal landings.

(b) Where spring buffers are used:

(1) Where generator-field control is used, 152mm.

6.3.7.3 Bottom Runby for Uncounterweighted Elevators. The bottom runby of uncounterweighted
elevators shall be not less than the following:

(a) 76mm where the rated speed does not exceed 0.13m/s

(b) 152mm where the rated speed exceeds 0.13m/s

6.3.7.4 Top Counterweight Clearances. The top counterweight clearances shall be not less than the sum
of the following items:

(a) The bottom car runby.

(b) The stroke of the car buffer used.

(c) 152mm

(d) Where an oil buffer is used for the car and no provision is made to prevent the jump of the
counterweight at car buffer engagement add:

(1) one-half the gravity stopping distance based on 115% of the rated speed.

(e) Where car spring buffers are used, add one-half the gravity stopping distance based on
governor tripping speed.

6.3.7.5 Overhead Clearances Where Overhead Beams Are Not Over Car Crosshead.

Where overhead beams or other overhead hoistway construction, except sheaves, are located vertically
over the car, but not over the crosshead, the following requirements shall be met:

(a) Such beams or construction shall be located not less than 610mm horizontally from the
crosshead.

6.3.6 Horizontal Car and Counterweight Clearances

6.3.8.1 Between Car and Hoistway Enclosures.

The clearance between the car and the hoistway enclosures shall be not less than 19mm except on the
sides used for loading and unloading.

6.3.8.2 Between Car and Counterweight and Counterweight Screen.

The clearance between the car and the counterweight shall be not less than 25mm. The clearance
between counterweight and the counterweight screen and between the counterweight and the
hoistway enclosureshall be not less than 19mm.

6.3.8.3 Between Cars in Multiple Hoistway

The running clearance between the cars and any equipment attached thereto, of elevators operating in
a multiple hoistway, shall be not less than 51mm.
6.3.8.4 Between Cars and Landing Sills.

The clearance between the car-platform sill and the hoistway edge of any landing sill, or the hoistway
side of any vertically sliding counterweighted or counterbalanced hoistway door or any vertically sliding
counterbalanced biparting hoistway door, shall be not less than 13mm where side guides are used, and
not less than 19mm where the corners guides are used. The maximum clearance shall be not more than
38mm.