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The Swedish Elevator Association is the Swedish trade association for companies in the elevator and escalator industry. We work to ensure that all buildings in Sweden are safe, accessible and sustainable when it comes to elevators and vertical transport, to promote accessibility for everyone regardless of physical ability. We are therefore critical of the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's proposal to ease the building requirements for student housing when it […]

Swedish building legislation currently has high requirements for accessibility and housing supply is a public interest in Swedish law. However, the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning estimates that in Sweden there are approximately 70,000 stairwells without elevators. In Gothenburg, current statistics show that only 11 percent of the municipality's public housing is accessible! Presumably the situation is similar in other municipalities. […]

More and more elderly people live in apartment buildings with poor accessibility and risk not being able to stay at home in the long term. Many can receive support from home care services, but when that is no longer enough, an unnecessarily early move to special housing is an alternative, albeit a costly one. The population trend with an increasing number of elderly people also makes […]

Providing existing houses with an elevator is a way to make life easier for many people. In many cases, the elevator is a prerequisite for older people to be able to remain at home in their familiar environment. In old houses, it is not only the elderly who need an elevator. Families with children, people with disabilities and sick […]