3" & 5" Residential Elevator Hoistway and cab gate clearance.

I made the statement over a year a go that the resolution to this Gap issue would not be a quick or short term answered solution. I was right.

The industry is creating solutions and verifying the existing units in the field, code Committees are hashing out specific Performance and Prescriptive language to allow design and Inspection to a common Standard. These Rules are not as simple to define in words alone without diagrams and Engineering data.

The Industry Peers are working towards Consensus.