The city of York, Yorkshire, is well-known for its rich heritage and wealth of historic attractions, including York Minster. With this background, it’s hardly surprising that York has a wealth of traditional and modern English hotels. One of York’s modern hotels had recently been acquired by a larger premium leisure brand, resulting in the hotel’s […]

In recent years, the Government, along with local councils, has been combining various services into new or recently built facilities designed to better serve the local community. However, in some cases, particularly those constructed over ten years ago, the facilities have been in regular and constant use and an upgrade of the buildings machinery infrastructure […]

The need to provide safe and reliable floor-to-floor passenger transport for a shopper’s convenience is essential to maintaining customer satisfaction and to comply with the needs of the Equality Act 2010. For retailers, this invariably means that stores need escalators or, at the least, passenger lifts that can convey wheelchairs. In the majority of cases, […]

BACKGROUND Originally installed in the early 1990s, the four scenic lifts were all experiencing problems with water ingress into the boreholes, resulting in lift break-downs due to overheating (despite 12kW oil coolers being fitted). The building owners had become concerned about the level of water ingress into two of the four boreholes and the high […]

BACKGROUND Over the past two years, Hydratec has been working with one of its major customers to improve the reliability of two hydraulic Machine-Room-Less (MRL) lifts in a private residential block. Working with our client, the reliability has been improved, but there were still ongoing complaints from the residents about the excessive noise created by […]