Uniformat D1010

Vertical platform lift

Also called VPL, wheelchair lift, accessibility lift

Confidence C
Version 0.1.0 (permanent link)
Reviewed 2026-10-22

Withdrawn. This is version 0.1.0. The entry was withdrawn in version 0.2.0 (2026-10-22): Its only sources were outside North America, which the library no longer uses. No US or Canadian source is available yet. Current status.

Service life

20 yearsas stated by one source

Years in service. One stated life so far; the band will widen as sources are added.

One source. This value rests on a single document (Design standards: employer's requirements – Technical Manual (ER-DFE-XX-XX-T-X-0201, revision A-C01), p75). Treat it as that source's figure, not a settled life, until others confirm it.

Basis

20 years · Design standards: employer's requirements – Technical Manual (ER-DFE-XX-XX-T-X-0201, revision A-C01), p75 · 2.4.4 “All lifts: 20 years” — Department for Education (England) (design life)
Printed page 75. All lifts, including platform lifts, which are common in schools. Minimum life expectancy (design requirement) for DfE-funded school buildings. Minimum design requirements placed on contractors for school buildings, not observed replacement ages. Section 5.1.4 (sanitaryware) refers to CIBSE Guide M Appendix 12.A1 'in general'.

How sources are chosen and recorded: sourcing policy.

Municipal lives for conveying (D10)

9 municipalities in Ontario and British Columbia state a life for conveying as a whole, in 9 distinct tables: 20–35 years, median 20. These come from capital asset policies: accounting lives, used for amortization. They describe the system rather than this component, and none is a measured life.

Years. Each dot is one stated life and each bar a stated range; equal values stack. The dashed line is the median. Policies that copy the same table count once.

All 9 stated lives

Municipality	As written	Years	Kind	Source
Grey Highlands	Elevator	20	accounting	p11 · 2026
Kenora	Buildings - Elevator	20	accounting	p15 · 2026
Prince Edward	Buildings - Elevators	20	accounting	p34 · 2022
Sarnia	Elevators	20	accounting	p1
Severn	Building Components - Elevators	20	accounting	p400 · 2019
Welland	Elevator	20	accounting	p8 · 2021
Parksville	Elevators	25	accounting	p9 · 2023
Greater Madawaska	Services Conveying	25–30	accounting	p17 · 2025
Brockton	Elevator - Mechanical Elevator	35	accounting	p2 · 2009

Every row was matched to its page automatically (the label and number appear in the page text). Follow the page link before relying on an automatically matched row. About the policies · All approved rows as JSON

Preventive maintenance

1 tasks in 1 work order.

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Months from the schedule start. Download the tasks as CSV for a CMMS, or ask the MCP tool get_pm_schedule for dated visits.

Semi-annual · 1 task

Source: NAVFAC MO-118 Inspection of Vertical Transportation Equipment, 6.5 Handicapped Lifts

Task	Page
Inspect wheelchair and stair lifts	p165

Frequencies are ISO 8601 durations in the data (P3M = every 3 months).

Open questions

Every source here is a published planning, design or accounting life. None is observed replacement data.
Elevator tasks come from NAVFAC MO-118 (1988), which restates the elevator code tests of its time; check them against the current ASME A17.1 and local requirements.

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Cite this

Citation

unfinished.one (2026). Vertical platform lift, v0.1.0. https://unfinished.one/c/platform-lift/v/0.1.0

BibTeX

@misc{unfinished_platform_lift_0_1_0,
  title = {Vertical platform lift},
  author = {{unfinished.one}},
  year = {2026},
  version = {0.1.0},
  url = {https://unfinished.one/c/platform-lift/v/0.1.0},
  note = {CC BY 4.0}
}

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