Installing a retrofit elevator is quicker and less disruptive than you might think. Adding large or small elevators, including pitless elevators, offers real benefits for your residents. Your building will be more attractive to prospective tenants, and a retrofit elevator will increase the value of a building.
A retrofit elevator increases the value of your property, makes it more attractive to potential buyers and tenants, and significantly improves accessibility.
Adding a retrofit elevator makes it quicker and easier for people to move safely around your building, allows older residents to live at home for longer, and small lifts make access to upper floors easier for everyone.
When you partner with KONE you can be rest assured that your retrofit elevator project will be hassle-free and run on-time and on budget. We can install small elevators, as well as pitless elevators, and we can recommend maintenance and other services to keep your equipment running smoothly for the entire life cycle of your building.
Small elevators increase the value of a building and this also means you can take advantage of the latest connected technologies to create a user experience that delivers on every level.
Replacing your old elevator with a modern, connected retrofit elevator opens up a whole new world of possibilities to add smart building solutions and services that make life even easier and more convenient for users. With connectivity built in, you can take advantage of smart building services developed by KONE and our People Flow Ecosystem partners. You can also connect your own services too. The result is a tailored experience for small elevators, as well as pitless elevators, that evolves with the changing needs of tenants.
Enhance the user experience with real-time information on-the-go, an exciting, multisensory ride-experience and other smart building applications, it makes everyday convenient by improving accessibility and availability.
As your experienced partner for smarter buildings, we can help you manage your property more efficiently with valuable insights into end-user behavior that can be used to continuously optimize people flow and improve the user experience.
Experience the new KONE DX Class elevators
| Solution | Description | Machine room | Max. travel | Max. Speed | Max. load / persons
| Max. group size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KONE MonoSpace™ DX | Versatile machine room-less passenger elevator for low and mid-rise residential and commercial buildings with external shaft. | No | 90 m or 36 floors
| 3.0 m/s
| 2,500 kg/up to 33 persons
| 6 |
| KONE ProSpace™ | Space and cost-efficient solution for residential buildings for installation in stairwells. | No | 30 m or 12 floors
| 0.6 m/s
| 675 kg or up to 9 persons
| 1 |
| KONE Motala | The KONE Motala lift improves accessibility in residential and public buildings | No | 13 m or 12 floors | 0.15 m/s | 500 kg or up to 5 persons | 1 |
We’ll plan and coordinate the entire retrofit elevator installation process. Whether it's a small residential elevator, a pitless elevator or a larger retrofit elevator with an external shaft, a dedicated project manager will make sure that everything is completed on time and on budget.
We can help you gather information about suitable solutions for putting a retrofit elevator in your building, as well as permits and subsidies, and make a rough cost calculation.
We can discuss your options for financing the project, help to identify how much might be covered by subsidies, and recommend alternatives for sharing the costs among residents.
We’ll check the installation location of your retrofit elevator, create the architectural and engineering designs for the shaft, design the elevator interior, and make sure that all relevant permits have been processed.
We take care of all the necessary site preparations, the shaft and retrofit elevator installation, and the final cleanup. Before we hand over your elevator, we’ll carry out a full safety and performance inspection.
Our preventive maintenance service keeps your elevator running reliably for its entire lifespan. If problems do occur, our skilled local technicians will get the elevator up and running again as quickly as possible.
We can install small elevators in almost any building. The size and shape of your stairwell will determine whether your retrofit elevator will be installed inside or outside.
Installation options:
We can create a solution that matches the interior design and architecture of any building. You can choose a shaft material that matches both your building’s interior and the car wall and floor materials.
Many European countries provide subsidies to cover as much as 60–70% of the total cost of installing small residential elevators. Typically, the residents’ association takes a loan and finances the repayments through the monthly service fee. Residents then decide how to share the cost of installing a retrofit elevator. We are ready to give you advice and provide you with a preliminary budget, just contact us for support.
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