Gillespie no longer manufactures LULA’s. In our experience they are not robust enough to handle the amount of use they actually experience. They are almost always used much more than originally intended.
We prefer to manufacture true elevators using our Shallow Pit Safety System when there are limitations to the depth of the pit. We can design for as little as an 8” pit.
We also have a Limited Overhead Safety System which allows us to fit a passenger or freight elevator into a space with as little as 8’ 6” of overhead. We can design these elevators in any size or capacity. Obviously, these elevators require a variance.
If space is not as limited, we can design and manufacture a passenger elevator that requires only a 32” deep pit and 10’ 9” of overhead, which provides both the bottom of car and top of car refuge space, required by code, and therefore does NOT require a variance.