TECHNICAL ISO/TS SPECIFICATION 18870 First edition 2014-08-15 Lifts (elevators) Requirements for lifts used to assist in building evacuation Ascenseurs -Exigences pour les ascenseurs utilisés en cas d'évacuation de batiments Reference number ISO/TS 18870:2014(E) LSO IS02014 IHS under Noreproo ted without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0/TS 18870:2014(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ IS0 2014 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either ISO at the address below or ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56:CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ IS0 2014 - All rights reserved No reproductic networking permited without license from IHS Not for Resale IS0/TS 18870:2014(E) Contents Page Foreword ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions ..1 4 Automatic evacuation lift specification .3 4.1 Determining the number and size of lifts .3 4.2 Protection of lift equipment .3 4.3 Waiting and travelling environment for users 4 4.4 Removal or suspension of lifts from evacuation service 4 4.5 Lift system reliability 4 4.6 Automatic recovery system. ..4 4.7 Remoteliftcarsurveillance .5 4.8 Communication system requirements .5 4.9 Lift signs and passenger announcements 6 4.10 Prevention and detection of car overloading .6 4.11 Initiation of evacuation service . 6 4.12 Description of evacuation service .6 4.13 Removal of lifts cars from service. 4.14 Change of main evacuation exit floor (MEEF) 9 4.15 Cancellationofevacuationservice. .9 5 Information to be provided to the building owner 6 Other information to be provided ..10 Annex A (informative) Building design considerations for automatic lift evacuation specification. ..11 Annex B (informative) Information to be provided .19 Bibliography .21 iii Stal ense with ISt thout license from IHS Not for Resale