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Lifts & elevators · Brisbane · Newcastle · Sydney

Lift installation, commissioning & fault finding.

Twelve years and more than 150 lifts, from 400 kg home lifts to a 34-floor, 3.5 m/s high-rise. JACO works with lift companies, builders and building owners in Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney and everywhere in between.

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  • 12+ years in the lift industry, since 2014
  • 150+ lifts installed, residential and commercial
  • 3.5 m/s 34 floors, 1600 kg: largest complete installation
  • All makes serviced and repaired, including Otis, KONE and Schindler

01 Lift services

From bare shaft to handover, and every fault after.

Complete installations, an experienced hand for your crew, or the person you call when a lift won't behave. Lift work by a qualified electrician, so the electrical scope stays with us too.

  • 01

    Installation & subcontract installs

    Shaft set-out, plumbing rails and brackets, landing doors, machine and controller, through to lift electrical. Complete installs for lift companies, or skilled hands on your team.

  • 02

    Testing, tuning & commissioning

    Set-up, test and tune to get a lift running floor to floor and ready for handover. Factory trained on Hitachi, Tresa and Eltec equipment.

  • 03

    Fault finding & repairs

    Service and repair across all makes and models. The difficult, intermittent faults are the ones we're usually called in for.

  • 04

    Modernisation & upgrades

    Electrical and control upgrades on existing lifts, planned around the building and its occupants.

  • 05

    Home & accessibility lifts

    Residential and platform lifts from 400 kg at 0.25 m/s, with manufacturer training on Part 16 and Part 18 home and accessibility lifts.

  • 06

    Lift electrical

    Controllers, shaft wiring, trailing cables and safety circuits, installed and fault-found by a qualified electrician.

02 Track record

34 floors, start to finish.

Our founder's largest complete installation, delivered with his previous lift subcontracting business: the old lift removed, the new high-rise lift installed (motor room included), commissioned and running floor to floor, completely set up and ready for handover.

At its peak that business employed three additional staff and ran two installations at once, completing installs for many lift companies. Before that came more than 150 lifts installed, tested and tuned for a residential and commercial lift company, and later a service run across all makes in a capital-city CBD.

Lift traction machines with orange sheaves in the machine room of the 34-floor project
On the 34-floor project.
Floors
34
Rated load
1600 kg
Rated speed
3.5 m/s
Scope
  1. Removal of the old lift
  2. Installation, including the motor room
  3. Commissioning
  4. Ready for handover

03 Factory training

Trained by the manufacturers.

Formal training on the set-up, testing and commissioning of the equipment, from the people who make it.

China

Hitachi

Training at one of Hitachi's manufacturing and teaching centres on the set-up and commissioning of its lifts, followed by test, tune and commissioning work on installations.

Spain

Tresa

A month of one-on-one training with a Tresa engineer on the set-up, testing and commissioning of Part 1 passenger lifts.

Home & accessibility

Eltec

Manufacturer training on Eltec equipment for the Part 16 and Part 18 home and accessibility lift market.

Experience across all major makes

  • Otis
  • KONE
  • Schindler
  • TK Elevator
  • Hitachi

We also have intimate knowledge of smaller lift manufacturers, including Master Lifts, Savaria, Aussie Lifts and Next Level, and many other suppliers of disability-access equipment such as stair chairs and platform lifts.

Brand names describe equipment we have installed, serviced or repaired. JACO Electrical is independent: we are not an authorised agent of, or affiliated with, any lift manufacturer.

04 Selected work

On the tools.

Installations, machines and finished lifts from projects we've worked on. Client and building details are withheld. Select a photo to enlarge it.

Orange Hitachi gearless traction machine between the guide rails, seen from above
Hitachi gearless traction machine and guide rails, seen from above.
 Lift controller and drive cabinets on a machine room floor, wired with looped orange cabling
Controller and drive cabinets wired in, seen from above.
 Glass-walled passenger lift rising through a multi-level commercial atrium
Glass-walled passenger lift through a multi-level commercial atrium.
Lift control panel beside bundled red power cables on perforated cable tray
Controller installation with dressed power and control cabling.
 Two finished stainless-steel Hitachi lift entrances with doors open and up-arrow lanterns lit
A pair of Hitachi passenger lifts, finished and ready for handover.
 Red power cables dressed along a cable tray into a lift controller beside the guide rails
Controller and red power cabling run beside the guide rails.
 Looking up a tall concrete lift shaft lined with guide rails and landing door assemblies
Rails, brackets and landing doors, looking up a multi-storey shaft.
Small home lift with black landing doors, nearing completion, with the controller housed beside the door
Small home lift nearing completion.
 Interior of a completed stainless-steel Tresa lift car with handrail and downlights
Completed lift car on a Tresa installation.
 Residential home lift in a glazed, white-framed shaft under a house
A glass-shaft home lift we built.
Multi-lift shaft with black steel separator beams and stacked landing door panels
Multi-lift shaft with separator beams and landing door assemblies.
 A lift technician in hi-vis shaking hands with a client in a building corridor beside the lifts; the client's face is blurred
Emergency breakdown call-out in the city.
 Orange gearless traction machine and steel ropes mounted on a guide rail
Gearless traction machine mounted on the guide rail.

05 Who we work with

Lift companies, builders and building owners.

Brisbane, Newcastle, Sydney and everywhere in between. Based in Taree, NSW. Lift work in Brisbane

  • Lift companies

    Subcontract installation, commissioning support and an extra experienced hand when the program is tight.

  • Builders & developers

    Lift installation and lift electrical coordinated with your trades and your handover date.

  • Body corporates & building managers

    Fault finding and repairs across makes, with a plain-English account of what failed and why.

  • Homeowners

    Home and accessibility lifts installed, commissioned and repaired.

06 Safety & compliance

Safe systems, every shift.

Lift shafts are unforgiving workplaces. Every task, from rigging to commissioning, is planned with a job safety assessment and safe work method statement, and we hold the tickets the work demands.

Safety testing, on video

Buffer tests are one of the key safety checks when a lift is commissioned: the car and the counterweight are each run onto the buffers at the bottom of the shaft to confirm the buffers stop them as designed. How commissioning works

Sound
Car buffer testThe lift car is run down onto its buffer at the bottom of the shaft. Tap to play (with sound).
Sound
Counterweight buffer testThe same check for the counterweight, run onto its own buffer. Tap to play (with sound).
No sound
From the pitThe view from under the lift as the car comes down while checks are carried out. Tap to play (no sound).
  • Qualified electricianElectrical fitter and mechanic
  • High-risk work licenceElevating work platforms
  • White CardConstruction induction
  • RiggingExperienced with lift installation rigging equipment

07 Contact

Let's talk about your lift project.

Installs, commissioning support or a fault that won't go away: call or send the details.

  • Phone0413 501 700
  • Email[email protected]
  • Based inTaree, NSW
  • ElectricalTaree, Manning Valley & Mid North Coast
  • LiftsBrisbane, Newcastle, Sydney and everywhere in between

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