STANNAH
WATT CLOSE
EAST PORTWAY BUSINESS PARK
ANDOVER
HAMPSHIRE SP10 3SD
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Suppliers of: commercial lifting products including passenger lifts, platform access lifts for disabled access, service and goods lifts, escalators and moving walkways and also domestic stair lifts.
Stannah design and install a comprehensive range of passenger and platform access lifts.
Stannah Lifts design and install a comprehensive range of lifts across the UK. We have been making products to move people and goods since 1867. We are proud of our engineering heritage, the fact that we are still a family run business five generations on and we’re proud of the strong values and ethics that guide us.
Passenger Lifts - 6 - 33 persons
Our broad range of passenger lifts means we can provide our customers with the right lift for their requirements.
We supply lifts for low to medium-rise buildings, as well as every size, type and style of passenger lift, fit for even the most iconic buildings right across the UK.
Each one of our passenger lifts can be supplied either individually or as part of a whole range of lift products across major developments, with a choice of simplex, duplex and triplex options and a choice of down collective lift control and others. Whichever lift you choose, we’ll help to make sure each one is suited to its travel, traffic and situation – with finishes to make them family.
Our wide range of inclined and vertical platform lifts are designed to improve accessibility for all people. From small electric platform lifts in the home, to platform lifts for disabled access in public or commercial buildings, we can help.
As a leading platform lift company, all our wheelchair platform lifts help you to comply with the Equality Act, Part M and meet the latest industry standards for manufacture and installation. We supply platform lifts in Scotland, England and Wales and all of our platform elevators are suitable as external or internal platform lifts.
Plus, every Stannah supplied lift is supported with our nationwide lift services covering the whole of the UK, so you can rely on our engineers for ongoing support no matter where you are.
Goods & Service Lifts - from 50kg to 3000kg
Home to a complete range of dumb waiters (dumbwaiters), larger service lifts and goods lifts carrying from 50kg to 1500kg. All of our lift products, whether a small dumbwaiter or service lift, or a larger goods lift will help you meet the requirements of the Manual Handling Regulations.
At Stannah we pride ourselves on the range and quality of our lift products, our highly skilled lift installation engineers and our excellent customer service. This all-round lift expertise has helped us to complete over twenty thousand goods and service lifts installations in sites throughout the UK, supported by our nationwide network of service branches.
Stannah supply, install and maintain escalators and moving walkways (sometimes called travelators, moving pavements, conveyors or autowalks) all over the UK.
Our products are ideal for retail premises where the addition of mezzanine levels to expand retail space needs easy access; for the easy movement of people across transport systems such as airports and railways and for large leisure complexes.
Stannah lift refurbishment, maintenance & repair
At Stannah Lift Services we maintain, service, repair, modernise and refurbish all types of lifts, escalators and moving walkways, not only our own but also those from other manufacturers.
Stannah helps people to get on with their lives. Whether it’s a lift at the station, a dumbwaiter at the coffee shop, a passenger lift at the office, a platform lift at the library, an escalator in the shopping centre, a moving walkway at the supermarket, a goods lift at the pub or a stairlift at home – we are there quietly helping life happen.
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Stannah wins Elevator World Project of the Year for Big Ben lifts
Stannah wins Elevator World Project of the Year for Big Ben lifts
Stannah, a leading UK lift supplier, has won the special purpose lifts category in Elevator world’s Project of the Year Awards, for the lift solution supplied to Grade I Listed Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) restoration project.
This recognition highlights Stannah’s ability to provide safe, step-free, and sustainable lift access solutions in all types of buildings, including historic, heritage, and Grade I listed buildings.
The 2025 Elevator Awards celebrate remarkable lift projects that demonstrate innovative design, special application or approach. Judged by industry experts, Stannah’s lift solution at Elizabeth Tower met these criteria, resulting in a win in one of the nine categories.
The Stannah Major Projects Division’s role in the Elizabeth Tower Lift Project included detailed manufacturing design of the lift and platform, installation, and commissioning. The complex and precise engineering of the lift project required close collaboration between Stannah and SVM Associates (SVMA), an independent lift consulting engineering firm that has overseen lifts on behalf of Parliament’s Strategic Estates since 2013.
David Saunders, Head of Major Projects Division at Stannah Lifts, said: “It’s an honour to be recognised by the industry for this project. Winning this award is a testament to the Stannah and SVMA teams for their hard work, creativity and dedication to providing lift solutions in buildings that have unique challenges”.
“The fact that that the tower now provides step-free access for the maintenance team despite its Grade I Listing, Central London location and the slight lean, is great, but also, we can all take pride that these lifts are engineering marvels that the Victorians would have been proud of.”
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Big Ben at the Houses of Parliament, completed in 1859, was designed by Augustus Pugin in a Perpendicular Gothic Revival style. The clock tower was then renamed Elizabeth Tower in 2012 in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. At 96 metres tall, and the climb from ground level to the belfry being 334 steps in a spiral staircase, maintenance teams found it extremely difficult to access Big Ben for regular maintenance and even more challenging when replacing heavy parts or transporting equipment.
Two Stannah lifts were specified by SVM Associates (SVMA) lift consultants for installation in an existing, large stone ventilation shaft inside Elizabeth Tower. The main Stannah lift travels 57 meters from the ground to the 11th floor at a top speed of 1.5 meters per second. With a second lift, a platform lift, providing access to the Belfry.
This complex and challenging project resulted in energy-efficient, precisely engineered lift systems that greatly facilitate the work of clock engineers and could potentially save lives in a medical emergency, all while preserving the clock tower's historic integrity.
An additional complication was added because the whole of Elizabeth Tower, including the ventilation shaft, has a slight lean of 0.23 degrees to the northwest. This slight camber, over 96 metres, resulted in a significant lateral displacement between the base and top of the stone ventilation shaft, making fitting the new lift challenging.
Network Rail select Stannah once again as their lift service partner
Stannah is delighted to announce its successful bid for the Network Rail lift and escalator tender. Stannah has worked with Network Rail over two decades and has now won a new five-year contract.
Alongside the lift maintenance contract, Stannah has won the contract to maintain escalators for the first time, a significant addition to the Stannah portfolio. The company has also been appointed to both the lift and escalator renewal and replacement frameworks, allowing their Major Projects Division, which specialises in technically complex special lifts, lifts within infrastructure projects and escalators, to bid for the replacement of current lift and escalator assets.
Winning this tender, potentially worth over £50 million over the five years, is a huge testament to the incredibly hard work that the Stannah team have put in. Stannah’s Network Rail Department, Maintenance and Repair division and Major Projects Team have all worked diligently throughout the current 10-year contract to build an extensive and responsive support capability for Network Rail.
During that period, Stannah engineers have serviced almost 1500 lifts across 554 stations from Penzance to Inverness. Each year, the teams clock up around 35,000 visits, totalling around 67,000 hours of service of full and preventative maintenance. Stannah’s Major Projects Division has also completed over 130 new lift installation, lift modernisation and replacement projects just in the last three years. With 1.6 billion train journeys made by rail passengers in the last year, keeping lifts fully functioning is vital to support Network Rail in “putting passengers first”.
To have won this contract again demonstrates just how compelling the Stannah offer and service delivery is. The Network Rail contract has some demanding targets that Stannah is regularly benchmarked against. Stannah’s hardworking engineers deliver against these targets time and time again with a high level of dedication and expertise.
Alastair Stannah, Managing Director of Stannah Lifts Distribution & Service, explains: “Our work within the rail sector has grown significantly in the last ten years. Our renewed contract with Network Rail will mean we can build on the excellence our teams and processes bring, working day and night, in order to prevent downtime for the thousands of railway travellers who rely on the network every day.”
“On behalf of all the family, I’d like to congratulate all our teams working on the Network Rail contract for this fantastic win and send our sincere thanks to them for their dedication, commitment and skill. We are truly delighted that we have retained this flagship contract and rightly proud of our fantastic teams for securing it.”
Network Rail work is undertaken via the Stannah nationwide network of eleven local service branches from which more than 360 highly-trained lift engineers provide local service. The whole contract is managed centrally by a dedicated rail department that meets regularly with Network Rail managers and key decision-makers within routes and train operating companies.
