AegisFPE
Silver Member
I agree that the elevator shaft is to be of fire-resistance-rated construction. However, this sounds like a "machineroom-less" system, such that there is no machine room. With the elevator equipment in the hoistway, it is already appropriately separated from the building.Leo said:The problem arose where the code requires the machine room to have the same rating as the shaft. In this case it is a Kone Econo Space elevator which has the machine in the elevator shaft (at the top) with a "control closet" located on the second floor.
Either the control closet should either be separated from the hoistway or the building (if open to the hoistway). I don't agree that the code requires the control closet to carry the rating of the elevator shaft.