This weeks news story we’re announcing a new apprentice here at Ascendant Lifts & Escalators!!

Meet Bobbie, our Managing Director Suzanne Lisle‘s new grandson! 👶🏻

Bobbie was a festive baby, born 27th December 2022 weighing 7lb 9oz. We’re sure as soon as hes old enough, Suzanne will be showing him the ropes (literally) in the lift industry! 🛠

Forget about times tables, its all about knowing your hydraulics from your traction lift, and your dumbwaiters from your platforms! He’ll be swatting up in no time📝

Congratulations from us all here at Ascendant Lifts & Escalators Suz, hes a little beauty.

This week we are delighted to announce some exciting news about the future of Ascendant Lifts & Escalators Ltd, we are REALLY starting 2023 as we mean to go on…

We recently completed the acquisition of assets of East Lifts Ltd. (ELL). East Lifts is an Independent lift company situated in the East of England who specialize in all lift access solutions. The company is a well established and has been trading for a number of years, with an ample set of new clients for us to welcome on board.

We’ve had a longstanding working relationship with ELL, and it came to light that the founder, Paul Spoor was looking to begin his well earned retirement. So, in pursuit of our ambition to continue to expand and grow, our CEO Kenneth Chappell took this as a fantastic opportunity to acquire the company and merge it to become part of Ascendant Lifts & Escalators ltd.

Following an initial discussion it was evident that there was a mutual benefit between both parties for us to acquire the complete portfolio of lifts and also the ELL engineers.

ELL is mainly based in Lincolnshire and surrounding areas which gives a greater geographical coverage for our new and existing clients.

This is just the beginning of our expansion plans for 2023 here at Ascendant – we look forward to working with all of our new clients and we cant wait to see what’s in store for the rest of the year, bring it on! 

It’s the last news story of the month from us here at Ascendant Lifts & Escalators, and of course we had to make it a festive one! Below are some moments from our North East and North West offices today as we have a last day together before the Christmas break.

We’ve had a fantastic afternoon of gift giving, and of course, enjoyed a huge pizza delivery before Santa comes on Sunday!

As we look back on 2022, we would like to thank each and every one of our client portfolio for your continued support this year. We have had some excellent new faces joining the Ascendant Team and some fantastic company developments and achievements made, as well as some staff achieving incredible career goals and working together to achieve huge success.

But what’s next? We are MORE than ready to ascend to brand new heights in 2023, come along for the ride with us!

Until then, we wish all of our team and our linked-in family a well deserved break with your loved ones, we look forward to seeing you all recharged and refreshed in the new year.

Merry Christmas, from all of us at Ascendant HQ.

This weeks news story as this week we have been working with a local charity issue which bears extremely close ties to us here at Ascendant Lifts & Escalators and an organization we feel deserves more exposure and to be acknowledged for the fantastic work they do for the local community.

A few days ago, our service sales manager Justine Bland dropped into Veterans In Crisis, a Sunderland based charity which predominantly works towards helping ex-forces men or women, who are struggling with life post service – get back on their feet. Veterans In Crisis not only supports these people, but in certain circumstances also offer support to the families of the bereaved who lost their lives serving in the armed forces.

The sort of help they offer varies and comes in many different forms, including working in partnership with Springboard, Gentoo and Engie to provide first class training to clients looking to get back into employment. VICS also have their own in-house councillor who is readily available to chat to any ex-veteran or family member who needs to chat. This service is confidential, safe, and relaxed and aims to help veterans and their families to take the right steps towards better mental health and wellbeing. VICS have also recently opened a gym – The SARC (Sports And Recreation Centre) so ex-veterans can complete all sorts of training and 1-2-1 exercises – which as we all know is a fantastic way to  improve mental wellbeing. They hold fundraising events regularly for the community and are always finding new ways to improve the quality of life of these fantastic men and women who have given so much for our country.

Each Christmas, Veterans In Crisis raise funds to provide Christmas dinners for a veteran in need. This may be for Veterans and their families who are finding times difficult in the cost of living crisis. It could also be for a Veteran without family who will be spending Christmas alone, which is something we believe no one should have to do!

Ascendant Lifts & Escalators are proud to have donated 10 Christmas dinners for those in need this festive period, here pictured below is the Founder and CEO of VICS, Ger Fowler with Justine after the cheque was donated.

Merry Christmas to you all, from Ascendant Lifts & Escalators.

This weeks news story comes in the form of recognizing some fantastic work completed for one of our local, most valued customers in Sunderland.

Sunderland Marina is situated on the North East coast at the mouth of the river Wear, and offers sailors immediate access to the open sea at all states of tide. Sunderland Marina is uniquely owned and operates alongside a charitable trust which also provides Outdoor Education through its centre ‘Adventure Sunderland’ based on the seafront.

We maintain both passenger lifts at each site here at Ascendant, and recently were approached by the facilities manager on site to complete some modernisation works which were essential.

The OTIS lift in the Marina Building had been recently experiencing technical issues and required a complete modernisation.

We installed a brand new control panel, and alongside this, completed a full shaft rewire.

We completed this in just a 7-day turnaround, also installing new COP, new buttons and new door gear to keep it up to date.

The newly modernised lift is now in ship-shape condition!! (Pardon the pun…)

Modernisation works are something we pride ourselves as being experts in here at Ascendant Lifts, with projects like this one being completed as standard, throughout the year. If lifts are always prone to breaking down and look old and unkempt, it can have a negative impact on a business.

Could your business could benefit from lift modernisation? Is it something you may look to do in the near future?

Our Business Development Manager for Modernisation and New Lifts, Tony Wilson, is always on hand to give you a call and arrange a free of charge site survey. Give him a call/email on the details below.

T: 0800 599 9177

M: 07874876691

E: tony.wilson@ascendantlifts.co.uk

W: www.ascendantlifts.co.uk

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This weeks news story centres around the huge effort put in by some of our fantastic engineers here at Ascendant, as they successfully completed important training courses, which safeguard themselves and the company, while also making the engineers working environment a happier and protected one!

Here at Ascendant Lifts & Escalators, we invest heavily into the training of our staff when it comes to health and safety.

Whether on site, in the office or travelling on our behalf, Ascendant engineers can be exposed to health and safety risks throughout their working day. As a result, we maintain a highly focused Health & Safety policy within the company, which sets out to achieve a 0% accident or near miss incident rate in every environment in which we work.

As a member of the Lift and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA), we are kept up to date with any changes to health & safety legislation, lift engineering standards, codes of practice or other recommendations. This week some of our engineers passed the below training courses with flying colours in the following areas…

• Manual Handling
• Slips and Trips
• Working at Height
• First Aid

Well done on another successful round of training lads! We couldn’t ask for a better team of engineers!

Ascendant News:

This week we’ve had good news in a variety of forms!

First stop, is at the Northumberland Arms pub in London, where we have successfully completed a complex and bespoke Dumbwaiter installation this week.

This unique lift car had to be specially designed and supplied so it could fit into the lift shaft, which can be quite a tricky task as it was a small and confined space.

This was completed with ease by our team in just under a one week turnaround, and our client is over the moon with the results of the project, as are we!

We’ve also had some great service contract wins in this week from our Service Sales Manager Justine.

Justine has secured maintenance contracts with a variety of fantastic local businesses this week, such as community centres, sports clubs and business centres in and around the North East.

Well done on another successful week Team Ascendant!

This weeks news is a little different today. As you know, our stories are usually good news in the form of contract wins, modernisation approvals or general lift and escalator success stories as standard!

This week though, we want to commemorate good news in the form of our fantastic team and their personal celebrations and milestones that have been shared with us in the office over the past few days.

Firstly, our Managing Director, Suzanne Lisle, is celebrating her birthday this Saturday 12th November. Anyone who knows Suzanne well knows she loves a good cake celebration! So that’s exactly what we’ve had in Ascendant HQ today, she also received a beautiful bouquet of birthday flowers alongside it.

Since taking over as Managing Director of the company in August, the business has gone from strength to strength with Suzanne’s expertise and knowledge, she really is the glue that holds our team together. Have a wonderful weekend Suzanne, from the whole Ascendant gang – all the best!

Some other lovely news this week comes in the form of a new little bundle of joy…

Our Business Development Manager, Tony, welcomed a new grandchild this week as his daughter gave birth to a bouncing baby boy.  

Alfred Timothy Griffiths was born Wednesday 9th November and weighed 7lb 6oz. Both mother and baby are doing well, and we’ve now got another little member of the Ascendant squad to boast about – I’m sure we’ll make a lift engineer of him in no time!

We believe it is just as important to celebrate our team’s personal successes as well as their success in the workplace, and we strive to do always do just that here at Ascendant. Congrats to Tony, Suzanne and of course as previously mentioned, Marcus – on all your celebrations this week.

The month of October was another successful one here at Ascendant Lifts & Escalators. We are delighted to share the news that we have been awarded the lift modernisation win at the picturesque Grand Atlantic Hotel in Weston-Super-Mare.

The Grand Atlantic Hotel is an elegant Victorian hotel that is set on the stunning seafront, offering breath-taking panoramic views of the Bristol Channel.

The Passenger lift on site dated all the way back to 1962 – which is older than most of us here in the Ascendant office! (And only 5 years older than our fantastic lift modernisation specialist Tony, sorry Tony!!)

As you can imagine, the lift which has been taking hotel guests up and down to the various floors for over 50 years and needed some restoration and repair to bring it up to a modern and reliable standard. You guessed it – that’s where we come in and work our Ascendant magic…

Following our survey and successful tender process we cannot wait to get stuck into yet another lift modernisation. This will completely rejuvenate the lift and bring the hotel up to date from a reliability and health and safety viewpoint with a more dependable piece of equipment available to the staff and public alike whilst leaving the hotels vibrant, periodic features untouched.
More to follow on this project once the equipment arrives at site and our engineer complete this complex project.

Elsewhere, we also have recently completed a modernisation at Lyndon Hall Care Home in West Bromwich.
Our client asked us to look an old and unreliable unit – we were on site the very next day to carry out our detailed survey so that we could submit our detailed proposal.
Following receipt of order and the ordering of the equipment from our preferred supplier we managed to complete the works within one week of site time.

Our works included new open protocol control system with shaft wiring and positioning system, new landing and car operating panels and indicators as well as various H&S upgrades. The works were tested and commissioned by our technical manager and handed back to the care home.

The home manager was thrilled with the finished product which has completely rejuvenated their passenger lift and brought some much-needed reliability – just another job well done from our fantastic Ascendant Team.

We are delighted to share the news that we have recently completed a comprehensive modernisation for one of our long-standing clients in the care sector.

The lift on site was over 25 years old and had started to become old and unreliable given its age and condition. At a recent contract review meeting with our client, this was a unit that was identified as needing investment.

We arranged for our engineering manager to attend site to carry out a comprehensive survey of the existing lift. Following our survey, we approached a number of suppliers within the industry to find the ideal solution for this project.

After careful consideration we selected a long-term supply partner who was able to supply us with an open protocol product that was readily available in the UK both from a technical support and spare parts viewpoint. The product also provided the client huge energy saving benefits by utilising modern technology for the drive system, lighting, and hydraulic pump motor.

From placing the initial order with our supplier, we were on site within 4 weeks where our teams stripped out the old equipment and disposing of everything in line with our environmental policy. We then began the installation and after 6 working days the lift was ready for test.

Our technical manager then attended site and carried out a full test and commission of the equipment in line with the relevant standards for modernisation of existing lifts.

We are pleased to report that our engineers done a fantastic job of the modernisation works and our technical manager passed off the unit without an issue after completing the necessary testing works.

Following the works the lift was returned to full service on the 8^th working day of the project. We completed this modernisation project on budget and ahead of schedule to the delight of the client.

At the handover of the project the client commended our engineers for their attitude towards both getting the project completed and ensuring the Health and Safety of anyone within the care home who could encounter the project works.

Suzanne Lisle, Managing Director of Ascendant Lifts commented “we are delighted how this project has turned out for one of our long standing service partners and special praise to our engineering team for putting H&S at the forefront and still delivering on time and within budget”