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Nibav Lifts USA offers home elevators with large travel height support, ideal for multi-storey homes. These shaftless, air-driven lifts operate smoothly across multiple floors without major structural changes, ensuring safety, comfort, and space efficiency.
What is it?
A large home elevator is a travelling home lift system intended to carry the cabins of a residential building through distances of vertical height from one floor to another, not limited to just one or two. Vertical height from the lowest to the highest floor can often exceed the maximum height limits that compact home elevators are designed to handle.
Nibav USA home elevators use a mixture of administrative and Pneumatic guided vacuum-driven systems. The Nibav home elevators are designed using vertical load-bearing supports, which create a stable, vertical guide, enabling the lift to travel vertically and smoothly from the lowest level to the maximum height (approximately 21 m) of your home.
The cylindrical structure serves as both the guide and the load-bearing frame supporting the lift’s cabin, maintaining a controlled and stable operation during the entire duration of travel between floors.
This allows the ability to have one Nibav elevator for multi-use, serving three-level, four-level, five-level, etc., up to your maximum horizontal travelling height, without requiring any additional mechanical equipment or changes to the building’s existing structure.
Why it’s important
The increase in multi-level residential construction has resulted in homes being built on more than one floor, using multiple tiers, using rooftop terraces, and adding basement levels to their overall height. Due to the height of residential buildings, many people are unable to use their stairs on a regular basis, and even if they could, these “long-distance” levels make it challenging for the elderly, families, and those with other mobility issues to access the upper stories of a residential building. A large travel height support is important in that it:
- Provides one continuous elevator connecting all of the floors of a home
- Provides for smooth, stable travel over long vertical distances
- Eliminates multiple lift/platform installations
- Provides for future accessibility needs as family members age
- Provides the same ride quality from the lowest to the highest floors
When the travel height is increased, conventional elevators require stronger motors, larger lift shafts, deeper pits, and a more complex mechanism to raise and lower the cabin. The Nibav system utilises a vacuum system, which replaces these components with an air pressure-based system and a rigid support structure that keeps the lifting mechanism aligned and capable of delivering a lift force over very tall distances.
Who needs this?
Home elevators with large travel height support are ideal for:
Multi-story homes: Villas, duplexes, and townhouses with three or more levels.
Homes with basements or rooftop floors: One elevator can connect every level.
Seniors planning to age in place: Full-home accessibility is preserved long-term.
Luxury residences: Tall architectural designs require elegant vertical transport.
Families who want future-proof design: The elevator remains useful even if new floors are added.
Technical information
The Nibav USA elevator has the standard capability of a large travel height through the combination of pneumatic vacuum physics, engineering that is self-supporting, and electronic controls.
Self-supporting vertical tube
The tube is a reinforced cylinder and is designed to remain aligned and stable vertically even when carrying:
- Cabin weight
- Load by passengers
- Dynamic forces due to movement
All of these loads are transferred directly to the base structure of the elevator.
Vacuum drive system
Electric turbines create a negative pressure inside the tube, which will lift the cabin up through the tube. The cabin will be lifted via the same degree of pressure applied to all four sides of the cabin. Therefore, the amount of lifting force is the same regardless of how high the cabin is lifted.
Gravity-assisted descent
Via the processes of equalization of air pressure and gravity, air pressure will decrease during downward travel to allow the cabin to descend at a controlled rate of speed, even when travelling many stories.
Electronic monitoring
There are sensors that read:
- Cabin position
- Air pressure
- Speed of travel
This will provide for stable travelling motion and an accurate stop at each landing—even at maximum height.
Modular construction
The vertical tubes are assembled in stacked sections, which allows for the structure to build up and out over multiple stories without the need for more complex mechanisms.
Frequently asked questions
1. How many floors do Nibav elevators support?
Nibav elevators can support more than one floor in travel height approximately equal to 21 m.
2. Will a greater height affect ride quality?
No, because the regulation of air pressure keeps movement at the same fluidity and smoothness.
3. Will higher buildings require more lifting power?
No. The vacuum lifting system provides an equal amount of force no matter how tall the building is.
4. Can the same design be used to retrofit a home that is tall?
Yes. The modular design of the vertical tube allows for ease of installation initially in homes that are already built.
5. Is the large travel height a standard option in Nibav USA models?
Yes. Multi-level capability is a key feature of the pneumatic elevators.
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