University of Sheffield Arts Tower Paternoster

[golaharsh]

i have my lectures in basement!! i never have used it now i want to!! moreover i want to go on the terrace of arts tower!! its fuking huge !!

[lovelplants]

very nice video.. so thrilling heheh.. lol.. what if something comes out.. lol...:)

[Andehtw]

Good news! The Arts tower is opening this year and I just spent a good ten minutes riding the cleaner looking paternoster.

[gillie63]

When I was a philosophy undergraduate in the early eighties the queue even for the paternoster on the ground floor was so great that we regularly went round the bottom, it was quicker than waiting. Having said that, by the time you got to the higher floors you could feel it shaking. We reckoned it was only fair that the architects were stuck at the top.

[sausageroll95]

....I think I'll take the normal lift thanks :L

[MrUNIXman]

Cool Paternoster, cool to race the paternoster with the normal lift and stairs

[Sadministrator]

I've got a bigger shaft than that...

[JonThm]

Steam power is nuclear fusion

[MIKEMASTER1A]

unexpress paternoster elevator. I'm bit bored slow down like a old library paternoster lifts for the marathon. However I'll take normal lift be quicker than that. I'm a 34 now I can't anymore. There was right that will could happened sometime being stuck or accident paternoster lift like a death trapped. There didn't stopped the floors. Is quite scare about that now.

[ronaldez]

I had a race against someone in this lift. He took the lift to the top floor, I took the stairs. Whilst humans are faster, he was a lot less sweater!

[ronaldez]

I had a race against someone in this lift. He took the lift to the top floor, I took the stairs. Whilst humans are faster, he was a lot less sweater!

[sjoes]

0:41 Department of Germanic Studies. I taught Dutch there in 1989-1990. Loved the paternoster.

[stoopkid80]

Those look dangerous

[jolizrid]

Takes me back! Rode the paternoster regularly between 1985 -88!

[Korea4Me]

5th floor, East Asian Studies...that's my floor but not for long. :-(

[MacBookGuy91]

Why don't those have light's in them.

[kapufa]

@MacBookGuy91

I cannot imagine how you did not notice that the cabin is open, and the lanterns of the corridor shine in...

[MacBookGuy91]

@kapufa I believe i was referring to when the cabin goes through the very bottom or top it would be dark in there. I don't think many people would do that but it could be dangerous.

Plus I think one of them thats left has light in them in another video at i think a different location a person road it over the top.

Another note what if the lights on one of the floors were all out.

[SeeGraeginatorRun]

I want that elevator look like this

[she2112]

LOLLLLLL

[cumesoftware]

I wonder what happens of someone gets stuck in there.

[jamesbrownontheroad]

The lift stops automatically whenever a trip cord is pulled - these stop limbs etc getting caught. The porters on the ground floor can restart it pretty quickly. If it's a major fault (such as when dumb-ass contractors try to take a ladder in the lift and get them caught) then a PA system announces shutdown and you have to wait for assistance. This is why you shouldn't go over the top or under the bottom - it's not dangerous, it's just very difficult to get you out if there's a breakdown.

[cumesoftware]

Why the need of a paternoster when normal lifts exist?

[jamesbrownontheroad]

There are only two "normal" lifts for twenty floors, and the building houses about half a dozen different academic departments and lecture theatres. Architecture, for instance, is spread between the 13th and 19th floors. Average wait time for a lift can be as much as five minutes, so for going a couple of floors it's very quick and convenient. Besides, one of the two regular lifts is out of order, and has been for about a week now... the cable broke !

[cumesoftware]

I see... The paternoster really can transport more people at the same time, indeed.

About the lifts: The cable broke? That's strange and very unusual. The lifts need regular inspections (6 months time span is recommended). Are lifts inspected in a regular basis?

[domrout]

The building is being closed around christmas 2008 for refurbishment, apparently, so it's not really being maintained.

[MagicalCarrot]

So much more fun than a normal lift.

[DjulBars]

What will happen to you if you stay there? Will it go under the ground? It looks like a risky elevator.

[mateyboy07]

Yes. It goes round and round.

[robbiex80]

MLTC I miss u!

[coondogtheman1234]

you should do this again but go all the way around and put a light near the camera so you can see the stuff in the bottom and top