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AS 1735

This series groups together the current parts to Australian Standard, AS 1735 Lifts, escalators and moving walks, available in the BIG library.

The AS 1735 series is a set of Australian standards that governs the design, installation, and maintenance of lifts, escalators, and moving walkways. These standards provide detailed guidelines to ensure the safety, reliability, and performance of vertical and horizontal transportation systems within buildings. The AS 1735 series covers a wide range of aspects, including mechanical and electrical design, safety features, accessibility requirements, and emergency procedures. Compliance with these standards is essential for manufacturers, architects, and building managers to ensure that lifts, escalators, and moving walkways operate safely and efficiently, providing secure and convenient access for all building occupants


Current Standards

AS 1735.1.1:2022 sets out uniform requirements and defines terms for lifts, escalators and moving walks in the AS 1735 series.
Identically adopts EN 81 3:2000+A1:2008, specifying safety rules for the construction and installation of permanently installed new electric service lifts with traction or positive drive, or hydraulic service lifts defined as lifting equipment, serving defined landing levels, having a car which is inaccessible, suspended by ropes or chains or supported by a ram and moving between rigid vertical guide rails or guide rails.
Sets out requirements for fire-rated landing doors for retarding the passage of fire through openings in fire-rated liftwells; it applies where doors are required to have a fire-rating certificate.
Adopts EN 81-70:2018 with modifications for Australia, which specifies the minimum requirements for the safe and independent access and use of lifts by a wide range of persons, including persons with disabilities.
Specifies requirements for alarm systems for all types of passenger and goods passenger lifts; deals with the minimum information to be provided as part of the instruction manual related to maintenance and the rescue service.