City of Chicago high rise emergency service elevators

For City of Chicago high rise residence, owners, managers, etc you should be aware of some items that are being required of your building.  Most notably the elevator system will need to have a speaker on the car top so when the fire department arrives at your building they can communicate with the entire building including anyone who may be in an elevator.  Many elevators will need to install a additional traveling cable on their elevator system to allow for communication from a car top mounted speaker.  I have posted a link below for the ordinance if you are interested in reading more about the overall high rise ordinance.   In the elevator universe we have been installing many traveling cables in order to achieve the communication the Chicago Fire Department is looking for.

 

http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/bldgs/provdrs/inspect/svcs/life_safety_high-riseordinance.html

 

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