Types of Lifts

Driving Commercial Value Through Lift Design and Installation

Are you thinking about installing vertical transport as a strategic move to boost your business’s capacity. To get the highest return, you need an awareness of the types of lifts available in order to arrive at a solution tailored to your specific sector’s operational quirks and rhythms.

Whether that’s managing the peak hour rush in office blocks or reducing manual handling risks in retail, the right lift choice directly impacts your staff’s performance and your customers’ experience. In this blog we’ve categorised the most effective lift types by industry in order to help you identify a solution that fits your business perfectly.

Tower Lifts has been working in commercial lift design and installation for over a decade. Our team has worked across a range of sectors, solving problems such as access and transport issues across the UK. It’s this experience that allows us to offer the advice, ensuring your next lift installation increases your productivity, and your profits.

Solving Sector Challenges – Tailored Lift Solutions for Your Business

The Tower Lifts team believes that the goal of most business lifts is that they should be invisible. We install lifts that work so well that nobody notices them. After a decade of installations, we know from experience how the wrong lift can ruin the “vibe” of a business. Here are 3 examples of how we tailor our sector-specific types of lifts:

1. Hotels & High-End Leisure

When you’ve spent a fortune on interior design, the last thing you want is for a noisy lift to ruin the ambiance. We solve this with ‘scenic’ or glass-enclosed lifts that become a design feature rather than an eyesore. In this case, guests remember the lift for all the right reasons.

Our silent-drive technology guarantees that your guests’ sleep isn’t disturbed by the hum of a motor. It’s a detail, we’ve discovered, that sets you apart from the rest.

Hotels & High-End Leisure
Micro-Warehouses & Dark Kitchens

2. Micro-Warehouses & Dark Kitchens

For businesses located in town and city centres, space is your most expensive asset. You’ll most likely find that standard lifts take up too much room. We solve the “dead space” problem with compact mezzanine lifts and bespoke goods-only lifts that fit into tight corners. This gives you with every inch of vertical storage available, effectively doubling your usable floor space without moving premises.

3. Care Homes & Residential Care

For elderly or vulnerable passengers, a lift that shudders, jerks or has heavy, slamming doors can be frightening. In these settings we recommend “soft-start” and “soft-stop” engineering. By focusing on smooth acceleration and gentle levelling, we go a long way towards removing the anxieties associated with vertical travel. Our goal is to ensure dignity and calmness for your residents as they move between floors.

Care Homes & Residential Care

Selecting Your System – A Specialist’s Sector Breakdown

Corporate Offices (Passenger Lifts):

  • Primary Need – High-speed vertical transit and “Zero-Wait” technology.
  • Specialist Insight – We recommend MRL (Machine Room-Less) systems to save on expensive office square footage.
  • Impact – Increases employee productivity by eliminating morning elevator congestion.

Care Homes & Healthcare (Stretcher Lifts):

  • Primary Need – Smooth, anxiety-free movement and reliable leveling.
  • Specialist Insight – Focus on “Soft-Start” engineering to prevent jerking and ensure patient dignity.
  • Impact: -Meets CQC (Care Quality Commission) standards for resident safety and accessibility.

Dark Kitchens & Urban Logistics (Mezzanine Lifts):

  • Primary Need – Compact footprint for high-density urban environments.
  • Specialist Insight – Bespoke “shallow-pit” designs allow for installation in buildings with structural floor constraints.
  • Impact – Effectively doubles your production capacity without the need for a larger building lease.

Warehousing & Industrial (Goods Lifts):

  • Primary Need – Forklift bottlenecks and pallet transport delays.
  • Specialist Insight – Heavy-duty 2,000kg+ capacity lifts with reinforced floors.
  • Impact – Streamlines your logistics chain and eliminates the safety hazards of moving heavy loads via stairs.

Retail & Showrooms (Platform Lifts):

  • Primary Need – Inaccessible mezzanine floors and manual handling risks.
  • Specialist Insight – Low-profile, pitless platform lifts with glass finishes.
  • Impact – Ensures DDA compliance and allows for one-person stock replenishment, maximizing your usable sales floor.

Tower Lifts – Accredited Excellence in Vertical Transport

Your business’ operational success is dependent on lift equipment that performs perfectly without fail. That’s why we maintain an environment defined by the industry-leading ISO9001:2015 and ISO 45001 frameworks. As a LiftCert and Constructionline accredited company, Tower Lifts brings together ten years of design innovation with UK safety protocols.

Call the Tower Lifts team today to discuss how our lift installations can grow your building’s productivity – 01525 601099

Tower Lifts London lift team can design and install a varied range of lifts throughout the UK including:

Domestic Lifts • Food Lifts • Bespoke Platform Lifts • Service Lifts • Platform Lifts • Goods Lifts • Scenic Lifts • Heavy Duty / Car Lifts • Passenger Lifts • Dumbwaiter Lifts • MRL Lifts • Fire lifts • Residential Lifts • low-Headroom Lifts