Bannon Partnership with TÜV SÜD for Best-in-Class Vertical Transportation Systems
As market leaders, Irish- owned Bannon manages over 75 commercial assets including shopping centres, retail parks and offices with a combined footfall of over 100 million visitors per annum. Given the level of footfall through the assets under our management, we prioritise the safety and efficiency of all plant and equipment. One area that we give significant attention to is vertical transportation equipment.
Vertical transportation refers to different types of equipment used to move building users between different levels of a building. Examples from our portfolio include passenger lifts, goods lifts, escalators, passenger conveyors and disabled access platforms in both retail and office settings.
Due to the essential nature and complexity of vertical transportation systems, Bannon engages TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman as specialist consultants. TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman is Europe’s leading independent lift & escalator consultancy, and they currently support over 18,000 lift units across Europe. Our partnership and collaboration with the firm dates back several years.
The Bannon management portfolio includes over 205 individual vertical transportation units. We utilise 10 different lift contractors to maintain and repair the units on our clients’ behalf. TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman helps us ensure that we are getting best performance and efficiencies from our assets which are serviced by our lift maintenance contractors, thus providing value for money.
TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman offer a full range of services including design, asset management, maintenance management support, condition reporting, project management, witness testing and expert witness.
Within the maintenance management services Tuv Sud review and process statutory inspection reports ensuring completion of all items under the terms of the maintenance contract and obtain quotations for any works that are deemed out of the contact scope.
One of the main roles performed by TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman is completing competitive tenders for maintenance contracts and modernisation or complete replacement of this equipment. In addition to tendering and putting contracts in place, they also manage our maintenance contracts. This includes sign off and review quotations for repair works to the equipment which fall outside the scope of the maintenance contract, process statutory inspection reports ensuring completion of all items under the terms of the maintenance contract.
At Bannon our culture is to provide best-in-class service to our clients and users across our portfolio. We achieve this by collaborating with industry leaders and partners such as TÜV SÜD Dunbar Boardman to provide service delivery levels that will ensure quality, compliance, cost awareness and safety to our lift users.
Author: William Lambe, Divisional Director, Bannon
Date: 23rd August 2022
