Professional Portfolio Management Service

LECS UK’s portfolio lift management provides professional independent oversight of your collection of lifts and/or escalators to ensure they are safe, compliant, and cost-effective and continue to be reliable.

This can involve managing maintenance schedules, reviewing contractor proposals, monitoring costs, and ensuring all legal requirements, such as regular thorough examinations and inspections, are met. It also includes long-term planning for modernisations, refurbishments, and replacements to extend the life of the equipment and reduce future expenditure. Plus we can, if requested, record and retain all the key lift information so it can be presented for review to any authority at any time.

Managing a portfolio of lifts and/or escalators, with all the legal obligations, maintenance schedules, various contractors and required paperwork can be time consuming, costly and stressful for a duty holder, so LECS UK can step in, to do it all for you – and save you a lot of money along the way.

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What LECS UK’s portfolio lift management provides:

Safety and compliance:

• • We ensure all lifts meet statutory requirements through regular maintenance, inspections and thorough examinations as stipulated by various regulations such as LOLER (Lifts Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations).

• • We manage defect identification and instruct when necessary repairs or upgrades are required.

• • We coordinate with insurance and inspection bodies.

Cost and efficiency:

• • We review and manage your maintenance contracts and contractor proposals to ensure they are fit for purpose and competitively priced.

• • Working in collaboration with client, we can monitor service, call-out, and breakdown costs to prevent overspending if requested.

• • We can, if requested, implement strategies to reduce energy consumption, such as monitoring usage and specifying energy-saving devices where appropriate.

Strategic planning:

• • LECS UK conducts audits and surveys to create a comprehensive asset overview of your portfolio, including the age, condition, and remaining service life of each lift.

• • We provide life-cycle costings to help you budget for future capital expenditure on modernisation or replacement.

• • We develop long-term strategies for your entire lift portfolio, not just individual units.

Benefits of LECS UK’s professional portfolio lift management

LECS UK, as a leading independent lift engineering consultancy, offers unbiased, expert management of entire lift portfolios. This can lead to significant cost savings, enhanced safety, and optimised performance. Unlike lift contractors, our independent and expert consulting engineers’ advice is not tied to particular product or service – we simply specify the best one for your needs.

1. Financial benefits | Our strategic planning and contract management can lead to significant savings on maintenance and repair costs over time – such as:

• Reduced long-term costs: As independent consultants we help you avoid unnecessary expenses by validating all quoted work from contractors, ensuring you only pay for what is truly needed. Our expertise also helps negotiate more favourable, transparent contracts.
• Optimised budget planning: As an additional service we can also conduct asset condition surveys* and performance analysis, with LECS UK able to provide an accurate financial picture of your lift and escalator portfolio. This facilitates effective long-term budgeting and strategic planning for maintenance and modernisation, rather than reacting to expensive emergencies.
• Extended equipment life: Through proactive and informed management, LECS UK can help you extend the reliable service life of your lift systems, maximising your initial investment.

2. Operational benefits | Asset reports and life-cycle costings provide the data needed to make smart, strategic decisions about future investments.

These include:

• Enhanced performance and reliability: We ensure that you have data analysis and performance monitoring to proactively address recurring problems. This leads to reduced downtime, more reliable lifts, and happier buildings.
• Efficient contractor management: LECS UK acts as your representative, ensuring that maintenance contractors fulfil their contractual obligations and key performance indicators (KPIs). We hold the contractor accountable and this of course frees up your internal resources.
• Comprehensive asset management: With up-to-date and accurate asset information, we can manage your entire portfolio effectively. This includes managing off-site maintenance, investigating reliability issues, and providing reports on performance and potential problems.
• Client Portal LECS UK also gives it portfolio clients access to a real-time client portal providing you with 24/7 online access to monitor equipment, view service records and receive updates. LECS UK’s clients get real-time visibility of your entire lift portfolio. All documentation is securely stored on our portal and available to you at any time with your personal login details. Off-site maintenance monitoring can include:
  • Back-up support to include reliability investigations and forward budget management.
  • A regular reporting structure that will identify and highlight any imminent maintenance problems. These can then be address directly with the maintenance contractor if required.
  • Reminders and general advice on upcoming inspection dates.
  • Meet all statutory obligations
  • Complete and maintain all documentation requirements on behalf of the portfolio owner

3. Compliance and risk management | With LECS UK by your side your duty holders remain confident that they are meeting all their legal obligations – this includes:

• Ensured regulatory compliance:Navigating the complex landscape of regulations like LOLER (Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations) is a core function for consultants. We ensure your portfolio meets all mandatory requirements, mitigating legal and financial risk.
• Improved safety: UK’s professional management ensures a more reliable and safer system for users. As independent lift consultants we prioritise the health and safety of users by conducting risk assessments and ensuring that all equipment meets the latest safety standards.
• Unbiased, expert advice: With no commercial ties to manufacturers or lift contractors, LECS UK provides honest, impartial, and expert technical advice on maintenance, modernisation, and upgrades. This gives you the confidence to make the right decisions for your portfolio.

4. Strategic benefits | Property managers and facilities managers can outsource the time-consuming and complex task of managing multiple lift contracts and service records.

• Future-proof strategy: We can guide you on modernisation and upgrades to meet evolving technology and accessibility needs, ensuring your vertical transportation systems are suitable for the long term.
• Reduced administrative burden: Outsourcing lift management to a consultant saves your internal team valuable time and stress, allowing them to focus on core business objectives.
• Informed decision-making: Independent assessments, data analysis, and expert reports allow you to make quantified judgments and create a proactive plan for your portfolio’s future.

*Additional services provided by LECS UK include:

• Asset condition surveys and performance analysis, with LECS UK able to provide an accurate financial picture of your lift and escalator portfolio. This facilitates effective long-term budgeting and strategic planning for maintenance and modernisation, rather than reacting to expensive emergencies.
• Energy consumption analysis: *We can, if requested, implement strategies to reduce energy consumption, such as monitoring usage and specifying energy-saving devices where appropriate.
• HTM Roles – for healthcare environments LECS UK can act as the authorising engineer or authorised person to meet HTM requirements

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