Pudong and Shanghai World Financial Center

Elevators

The single-deck units are designed for speeds in excess of 10 meters per second and ultimately will meet speeds of 15 meters per second, while the double-deck units are designed for 10 meters per second.

Double-deck elevators

One car stops at even floors and the other stops at the odd floors. Depending on their destination, passengers can mount one car in the lobby or take an escalator to a landing for the alternate car.

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• Low rise go from lobby to level 12.

• Medium rise lifts go from lobby to 22 stopping from level 11.

• High rise lifts go from lobby to 34 stopping from level 22.

• Shuttle lift goes from level 34 to level 39.

Ground Floor Plan

Twenty-First Floor Plan

As office workers use their pass to go through a lobby gate, they are directed by the system to a car that will take them to their floor.

By assigning passengers to specific floors, it allows each car to make only about a quarter of the stops normally required in heavy traffic periods.

Pneumatic waste collection systems

Pneumatic waste collection systems is an automatic garbage collection system

The system is based on pipes connected to buildings which are operated by vacuum.

RUFUGE AREA

• AT EVERY 30 FLOORS

• CONCRETE WALLS.

• 2 HOURS FIRE RESISTANCE

Smoke detector

Network of high powered fans pumps clean air through fire resisting ducts

Fresh air pushes the smoke down back

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The Refuge Area

The refuge area shall be provided on the periphery of the floor & open to air at least on one side protected with suitable railing.

a) For floors above 24m & up to 39m one refuge area on the floor immediately above 24m.

b) For floors above 39m one refuge area on the floor immediately above 39m & so on after 15m refuge area shall be provided.

Ref : As per section 8.12.3 on part IV of NBC