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The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of multi-directional elevators compared to traditional elevators. Some key advantages are lower energy consumption (up to 60% less), smaller elevator shafts allowing for 25% more usable space in buildings, and reduced wait times. Multi-directional elevators could be useful in large healthcare facilities to transport patients internally without leaving the cabin. However, a major disadvantage is the higher cost, as multi-directional elevators can cost up to 5 times as much as standard elevators currently.

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Advantages and Disadvantages

The document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of multi-directional elevators compared to traditional elevators. Some key advantages are lower energy consumption (up to 60% less), smaller elevator shafts allowing for 25% more usable space in buildings, and reduced wait times. Multi-directional elevators could be useful in large healthcare facilities to transport patients internally without leaving the cabin. However, a major disadvantage is the higher cost, as multi-directional elevators can cost up to 5 times as much as standard elevators currently.

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Advantages

The Philippines is a fragile country due to rapid population growth, limited city size, and

infrastructure that was never designed to accommodate such a large number of people living in

such close quarters. Buildings must be built higher in a more sustainable, cost-effective, and

user-friendly way to accommodate growing populations. Elevators are a crucial component in

creating environmentally friendly and user-friendly structures. Multi-directional elevators have a

number of advantages over traditional elevators, including lower energy consumption, shorter

elevator wait times, and higher profitability due to smaller elevator shafts.

Building owners. With its space and energy saving features, the adaptation of a multi-

directional elevator could help save country's building owners money. Multi-directional elevators

have smaller shafts than traditional elevators, resulting in a 25% increase in usable space in a

building (Fischer, 2015). Because the goal of building owners is to maximize profits, every

square foot of usable space is critical to that goal. In addition, when compared to conventional

elevator systems, multi-directional elevators require significantly less peak power—up to 60%

less (Fischer,2015). This is significant because elevators account for 3 to 8% of total electricity

consumption in buildings, according to the Italian National Agency for New Technologies,

Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development. Because elevator energy consumption is likely

to be underestimated, multi-directional elevators' ability to reduce the amount of power required

is an even greater benefit to building owners.

Building users. The main advantage of a multi-directional elevator is that it reduces

elevator wait times. The time it takes for multi-directional elevators to reach their destination

floor is determined by velocity, number of stops, door times, and the highest reversal floor,

which remains constant and is always less than that of a double decker elevator. There's no way
to vary the time it takes to get to each destination because each multi-directional elevator makes

the same number of stops on every acceleration and deceleration.

Healthcare. Multi-directional cabins, for example, could be remarkably useful in large

healthcare facilities. Internal ambulances could be suitably equipped and lead patients and staff

wherever they need to go without ever leaving the cabin, reducing waiting times, walking

distances, and ensuring greater safety, especially for patients who will always be in a controlled

environment.

Disadvantage

Higher cost. Because there are no precedents to deal with and/or legislation to refer to,

the technical and development aspects of the technology are still being defined. A multi-

directional elevator, according to Condliffe (2017), can cost up to five times as much as a

standard lift system. Building owners, engineers, and architects may have to sacrifice long-term

efficiency for affordability by installing cheaper and more traditional elevators as prices are

publicized, with costs up to five times higher than a standard lift system.

Interaction and communication with the user. The use of a lift is so common in most

people's daily lives that knowing how to use one is almost innate. The working principle of a

ropeless lift is entirely different. As a result, a period of adaptation will be required, as well as a

greater effort on the part of designers and experts to make this new device user-friendly and

understandable.
References

Fischer, J. (2015, November 5). ThyssenKrupp Premieres MULTI, World’s First Rope-Less
Elevator System. ThyssenKrupp. Retrieved November 6, 2021, from
https://www.thyssenkruppelevator.com.cn/en/cn/press/press-releases/press-release-
datasource-2-1378.html

Jetter, M. (2015). A Next Generation Vertical Transportation System . Council on Tall Buildings
and Urban Habitat. Retrieved November 6, 2021, from
http://global.ctbuh.org/resources/papers/download/2408-anext-generation-vertical-
transportation-system.pdf

Condliffe, J. (2017, June 23). World’s First Cable-Free Elevator Zooms Horizontally and
Vertically Using Maglev Technology. MIT Technology Review. Retrieved November 6, 2021,
from https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608167/worlds-firstcable-free-elevator-zooms-
horizontally-and-vertically-usingmaglev-tech/

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