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.”
