Sky build

Product catalog summary

Introduction to SkyBuild
SkyBuildTM is a self-climbing elevator designed to enhance the efficiency of high-rise building construction. It facilitates the quick, comfortable, and safe transportation of work crews, reducing downtime compared to traditional external hoists. The elevator can climb during off-hours and with each new floor addition, eventually converting into a permanent SkyRise elevator post-construction.

Benefits of SkyBuild
SkyBuild offers significant advantages, including providing workers with an additional 30 to 60 minutes of productive time daily, enhancing safety and comfort, and ensuring 99% availability. It has been successfully utilized in projects like the Allianz Tower in Milan, which features 16 high-speed elevators, including panoramic glass cabs.

Technical Specifications
The SkyBuild elevator operates at a maximum speed of 3.5 meters per second and can handle a standard duty of 1600 kilograms, with higher capacities available. It supports a maximum rise of 300 meters and requires a minimum installation height of 7 floors. The system can execute jumps between shifts, with a minimum height of one floor per jump.

Key Features
1. Overhead protection ensures crew safety from overhead hazards.
2. A working platform allows for the installation of additional elevator rails.
3. The controller platform houses essential components above the machine room.
4. The machine room platform supports the SkyMotion® machine.
5. A dual-action hydraulic system facilitates climbing operations.
6. Retractable support beams secure the system during climbs.
7. The elevator cab serves all floors below the assembly and converts into a permanent cab post-construction.

Proven Technology and Global Support
Otis, a pioneer in self-climbing lift technology, has continually innovated to develop the SkyBuild elevator. With a global support network and a team of experts, Otis ensures the success of high-rise projects worldwide, as demonstrated in the Tour Granite project in Paris.

About Otis Elevator Company
Otis Elevator Company, a unit of United Technologies Corporation, is a leading manufacturer and maintainer of elevators, escalators, and moving walkways. With over 160 years of experience, Otis operates in more than 200 countries and moves over 2 billion people daily.

Catalog excerpts

Complete your building faster with SkyBuild We know what it takes to put up a high-rise building – we have years of construction experience ourselves. That’s why we created SkyBuildTM – a self-climbing elevator that can be used for transporting work crews quickly, comfortably and safely during construction. With the reliable, high-speed SkyBuild elevator, your crews spend less time waiting and more time on the job than with a traditional external hoist. Our unique design enables climbs to be executed quickly during off hours to avoid disrupting your schedule. Climbs can also be performed every...

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A faster, safer way to the top 1 verhead protection O Safety first! An angled deck protects crews from overhead hazards. 2 orking platform W Used by Otis crews to install additional elevator rails to allow the SkyBuild to climb as construction progresses. 3 ontroller platform C The controller, drive and traveling cable sit on a platform directly above the machine room platform. 4 achine room platform M The movable platform supports the SkyMotion® machine and becomes part of the permanent machine room upon the building’s completion. 5 ydraulic platform H During the climbing operation, our unique...

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The use of the SkyBuild elevator helped expedite construction of Tour Granite in La Defense business district just outside Paris. Completed in 2008, the tower features the oblique angles that are characteristic of the work of Christian de Portzamparc, the building's award-winning architect. Tour Granite is equipped with 28 elevators from Otis, including one high-speed double-decker. Technology born of experience and proven around the world Working with customers a generation ago, Otis pioneered the self-climbing lift technology that led to today’s SkyBuild self-climbing elevator. Since then,...

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Otis Elevator Company is the world’s leading manufacturer and maintainer of elevators, escalators and moving walkways. Founded more than 160 years ago by the inventor of the safety elevator, Otis offers products and services through its companies in more than 200 countries and territories, and maintains approximately 2 million elevators and escalators worldwide. Every day, Otis moves more than 2 billion people through the world's urban landscapes. Otis is a unit of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), a leader in the global building systems and aerospace industries. For more information, visit...

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