ASME A17.1 : 2016
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SAFETY CODE FOR ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS - INCLUDES REQUIREMENTS FOR ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS, DUMBWAITERS, MOVING WALKS, MATERIAL LIFTS, AND DUMBWAITERS WITH AUTOMATIC TRANSFER DEVICES
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Language(s)
English
Published date
01-01-2016
Publisher
Superseded date
30-01-2020
Superseded by
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ASME Foreword
ASME Committee Roster
CSA Committees
ASME Preface
CSA Preface
Summary of Changes
Part 1 - General
Part 2 - Electric Elevators
Part 3 - Hydraulic Elevators
Part 4 - Elevators With Other Types of Driving Machines
Part 5 - Special Application Elevators
Part 6 - Escalators and Moving Walks
Part 7 - Dumbwaiters and Material Lifts
Part 8 - General Requirements
Part 9 - Reference Codes, Standards, and Specifications
Nonmandatory Appendices
A - Control System
B - Unlocking Zone
C - Location of Top Emergency Exit
D - Rated Load and Capacity Plates for Passenger Elevators
E - Elevator Requirements for Persons With Physical
Disabilities in Jurisdictions Enforcing NBCC
F - Ascending Car Overspeed and Unintended Car Movement
Protection
G - Top-of-Car Clearance
H - Private Residence Elevator Guarding
I - Escalator and Moving Walk Diagrams
J - Relationship of Pit Ladder to Hoistway Door Unlocking
Means
K - Beveling and Clearance Requirements
L - Index of Alteration Requirements for Electric Elevators,
Hydraulic Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Walks
M - Inertia Application for Type A Safety Device Location
of Test Weight
N - Recommended Inspection and Test Intervals in 'Months'
P - Plunger Gripper Stopping Distances
Q - Explanatory Figures for the Definitions of Elevator
Machinery Space, Machine Room, Control Space, Control
Room, Remote Machine Room, or Remote Control Room
R - Inspection Operation and Hoistway Access Switch
Operation Hierarchy
S - Vertically Sliding Doors - Illustrations of Detection
Zones
T - Deleted
U - Design Requirements - Traction Elevator Suspension
System
V - Building Features for Occupant Evacuation Operation
W - Deleted
X - Acceptance Tests
Y - Maintenance Control Program Records
Z - Mass and Closing Time of Horizontally Sliding Elevator Doors
Index
Describes the design, construction, operation, inspection, testing, maintenance, alteration, and repair of the following equipment and its associated parts, rooms, spaces, and hoistways, where located in or adjacent to a building or structure: (a) hoisting and lowering mechanisms, equipped with a car, that move between two or more landings; (b) power-driven stairways and walkways for carrying persons between landings; and (c) hoisting and lowering mechanisms equipped with a car that serves two or more landings and is restricted to the carrying of material by its limited size or limited access to the car.
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Also numbered as CSA B44. (11/2016)
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Standard
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| Pages |
598
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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Superseded
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| Supersedes |
| ISO 22559-1:2014 | Safety requirements for lifts (elevators) — Part 1: Global essential safety requirements (GESRs) |
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| ASCE 7 10 : 2011 | MINIMUM DESIGN LOADS FOR BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES |
| NFPA 5000 : 2018 | BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND SAFETY CODE |
| C22.1-15 PACKAGE | Consists of C22.1-15, Canadian electrical code, part I (23rd edition), safety standard for electrical installations; C22.1HB-15, Canadian electrical code handbook - an explanation of rules of the Canadian electrical code, part I and the 2015 Electrical quick reference |
| PD ISO/TR 11071-1:2004 | Comparison of worldwide lift safety standards Electric lifts (elevators) |
| PD 6523:1989 | Information on access to and movement within and around buildings and on certain facilities for disabled people |
| NFPA 130 : 2017 | FIXED GUIDEWAY TRANSIT AND PASSENGER RAIL SYSTEMS |
| DD ISO/TS 22559-2:2010 | Safety requirements for lifts (elevators) Safety parameters meeting the global essential safety requirements (GESRs) |
| NFPA 4 : 2018 | INTEGRATED FIRE PROTECTION AND LIFE SAFETY SYSTEM TESTING |
| ISO/TS 25740-1:2011 | Safety requirements for escalators and moving walks — Part 1: Global essential safety requirements (GESR) |
| ASTM E 2513 : 2007 : R2012 | Standard Specification for Multi-Story Building External Evacuation Platform Rescue Systems |
| BS EN 81-77:2013 | Safety rules for the construction and installations of lifts. Particular applications for passenger and goods passenger lifts Lifts subject to seismic conditions |
| ISO 22201-1:2017 | Lifts (elevators), escalators and moving walks — Programmable electronic systems in safety-related applications — Part 1: Lifts (elevators) (PESSRAL) |
| ASME A17.7 : 2007 : R2012 | PERFORMANCE-BASED SAFETY CODE FOR ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS |
| ICC 2012 INT. EXIST. BUILDING CODE : 2012 | INTERNATIONAL EXISTING BUILDING CODE |
| NFPA 1 : 2021 | FIRE CODE |
| PD ISO/TR 8100-24:2016 | Safety requirements for lifts (elevators) Convergence of lift requirements |
| DD ISO/TS 25740-1:2011 | Safety requirements for escalators and moving walks Global essential safety requirements (GESR) |
| NFPA 101 : 2018 | LIFE SAFETY CODE |
| ISO/TR 8100-24:2016 | Safety requirements for lifts (elevators) — Part 24: Convergence of lift requirements |
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| ASME A17.6 : 2010 | STANDARD FOR ELEVATOR SUSPENSION, COMPENSATION, AND GOVERNOR SYSTEMS |
| BS ISO 22559-1:2014 | Safety requirements for lifts (elevators) Global essential safety requirements (GESRs) |
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| C22.1HB-18 | Canadian Electrical Code Handbook - An Explanation of the Rules of the Canadian Electrical Code, Part I |
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| ANSI A12.1 : 1973 | FLOOR AND WALL OPENINGS, RAILINGS, AND TOEBOARDS, SAFETY REQUIREMENTS FOR |
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