LIFT MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR YOUR PROPERTY

The Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has mandated that lifts have to be maintained on a monthly basis. Refer to: https://www.bca.gov.sg/LiftSafety/lift.html

Usually, the cost of lift maintenance for a home lift would range between $100 to $200 per month. This usually involves a routinely safety inspection so as to help ensure that your home lift remains functional and safe for your personal use.

First and foremost, stay calm. With every lift installed and maintained by us, you’ll find a 24-hour emergency hotline where you can phone in. Our professional response team will receive your call and dispatch our duty technicians swiftly to handle your lift emergency.

Lift inspections are mandatory lift examinations carried out by an independent Specialist Professional Engineer with the appropriate Practising Certificates. The objective is to ensure the lift that’s installed meets the safety compliances and is fit for operation.

Yes. The Building Maintenance and Strata Management Act states that lift owners are required to ensure that lifts are maintained at the required interval. Failure to do so will result in penalties.

You may read more about the requirements on maintenance and testing frequencies for the various types of lifts on the BCA website.

This typically ranges between 45 minutes for a simple home lift to a few hours for high-rise, complex lift systems.

Established in 1999, we’re a trusted lift maintenance contractor that has been operating for over 20 years. Our customers work with us because we believe that lift safety is our number 1 priority.

We’ve spent the past 2 decades training and cultivating our professional servicing team on the safety standards we abide to. Every lift maintenance session we attend will help provide assurance that your lifts are maintained to the highest safety standards.

Yes, there are. BCA has developed and published a “Lift Maintenance Outcome Guidebook”. You can find it via this link: https://www1.bca.gov.sg/regulatory-info/lifts-escalators/e-guides

PTO stands for Permit-To-Operate. All lifts in Singapore require a valid PTO to operate. The validity of the PTO is 1 year.

It is mandatory by law to display a valid PTO for ALL lifts. It is the duty of the lift owner to ensure a valid PTO is obtained and displayed inside the lift.

BCA will send notices to all lift owners 3 months before the expiry of the current PTO to remind owners to renew the PTO. The steps to complete the renewal process are as follows:

i) Owner will receive a PTO renewal letter from BCA. The owner has to log into the online PTO system and make a renewal fee payment directly to BCA.

ii) The Lift Service Provider will receive a notification to carry out the mandatory lift inspection and examination after the owner has made the payment.

iii) A BCA approved Lift & Escalator Specialist Professional Engineer will carry out the required lift inspection and examination.

iv) BCA will be notified when all the above steps are completed and issue the new PTO.

If the PTO is not renewed before expiry, the lift will be suspended and has to be shut down immediately until a new PTO is obtained. BCA will also seal up the lift.

It is an offence to operate the lift without a valid PTO. If convicted, the lift owner shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

Please visit BCA O-PTO website @ https://eservices.bca.gov.sg/onlinepto/
You can also download the OPTO user guide and read the FAQs there.

The Lift & Escalator Specialist Professional Engineer is an Independent Authorized Examiner approved by BCA to carry out the yearly lift & escalator inspection and examination as part of the PTO renewal process.

Every year, a No-Load Visual Examination on the lift will be carried out as part of the PTO renewal.

Once every 5 years, a Full-Load Examination in addition to the Visual Examination will be carried. This involves loading the lift to its full rated capacity with weights so as to ascertain the lift is able to transport the intended load.