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World’s first rotating boat lift chooses EquiLift

The world’s first and only rotating boat lift, The Falkirk Wheel, is a unique and ingenious piece of engineering. Linking two canals with water levels 115ft apart, The Wheel provides an innovative solution to transferring boats between levels, which would have traditionally required 11 locks.

A major emphasis has been placed on making the visitor centre accessible to all, with consideration of the recommendations laid out in the Disability Discrimination Act.

For visitors with impaired mobility, wheelchairs are available. Two EquiLift Lifting Platform’s have been installed at The Wheel to facilitate disabled access to all areas. A Vector Vertical Lifting Platform has also been fitted in the boaters centre adjacent to the visitors centre to link the upper and lower levels of the premises. The Vector lift can accommodate a wheelchair user and an attendant up to a maximum capacity of 630kg and travel up to 12m, with a maximum of 4 stops.

Within the visitors centre itself a Vector Lifting Platform has been installed to link the two stories of the building. The Vector fitted within the centre has been supplied without its own enclosure, so that once on site the shaft has been constructed by the team responsible for other building works, thus exactly matching the décor of the surrounding area.