LECS UK is delighted to announce that our CEO, Dave Cooper MBE, has been presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Safety Council. The prestigious award recognises Dave's outstanding and longstanding contribution to improving safety across the lift and escalator industry. Throughout his career, he has been at the forefront of raising standards, [...]
NHS Trusts and healthcare facilities managers face a unique challenge: keeping patient lifts safe, compliant, and operational—without disrupting care. With more than 2,000 hospital buildings across England were built before the foundation of the NHS in 1948* it’s not surprising that lifts throughout the NHS can problematic! With ageing lift assets across the NHS in [...]
LECS UK's CEO Dave Cooper began campaigning for statutory inspections of escalators 34 years ago and since 1998 has been calling for escalators to be included under the UK’s Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) necessitating mandatory independent “thorough examinations.” Here is an article he wrote in 1992! Escalator- A hazard without status He [...]
What is an authorising engineer for lifts? An NHS Authorising Engineer (Lifts) (AE) is an independent chartered engineer, like engineers at LECS UK, appointed by a healthcare organisation or NHS Trust to oversee the safety, compliance, and management of, lifts in accordance with Health Technical Memorandum 08-02 (HTM 08-02). Their responsibilities include appointing and monitoring Authorised Persons [...]
Abstract. Brake failures affect many types of equipment and while efforts have been made in standards to improve the outcome of a brake failure they still occur. The consequences of a failure can range from a near-miss to one or more fatalities. Many service technicians take the view that with the introduction of variable frequency drives [...]
Sophie Brown, our amazing apprentice, has just graduated from University of Northampton’s Lift and Escalator Technology Foundation course! Sophie continues to pursue her NVQ3 (on the way to NVQ4)— building even more knowledge and hands-on experience in the lift industry. 🚀 Here she is with LECS UK directors Lee Dean and Michael Ford BEng (Hons), [...]
We were delighted to send our apprentice, Sophie Brown, to Germany this month to experience Interlift, one of the world’s biggest exhibitions for lift and escalator technology. Sophie, who graduated from the University of Northampton’s Lift and Escalator Technology Foundation course last month, headed to Interlift following a two-week placement with Ascendant Lifts, Manchester. It was the perfect [...]
Our talented team at LECS UK came together for a productive and energising team day — and what a success it was!From planning sessions to knowledge sharing and a few well-deserved laughs in between, the day was a fantastic reminder of what makes our firm thrive: collaboration, expertise, and a shared commitment to engineering excellence. [...]
The Royal College of Nursing, London, undertook an extensive lift modernisation programme that was entirely project managed by leading specialist engineer consulting company, LECS UK. Lift modernisation of firefighting lift and scenic lift This was a modernisation project of an existing firefighting lift and a scenic lift at the prestigious Cavendish Square building in London. [...]
LECS UK's CEO and CIBSE President Elect, Dave Cooper, will serve as a judge for the CIBSE Middle East and. North Africa (MENA) Awards 2025, recognising excellence in building services engineering across the region. The MENA awards serves as a platform to recognise excellence in building services engineering - celebrating outstanding individuals, innovative projects, and [...]
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