Uganda, June 16 -- A daily casual lookaround in addition to a more thorough periodical inspection will help a building owner to spot any warning signs of damage or impending elevator malfunction. Elevators are in use in many buildings, both commercial and residential, and looking out to ensure they are in good working order is key for public safety in general.
Elevators or lifts are installed in residential, commercial or retail properties that rise up to an average of four to five floors.
On the surface, an elevator is just a metal box where one enters to press buttons and is ushered to a given floor of a building, but save for the visible box, a door and buttons, there is more to an elevator.
Samson Oluoch Onyango, a project engineer a...