Elevator Compliance Group works for building owners, never for the contractor. QEI-licensed inspectors and consultants who inspect your equipment, track every violation to a verified fix, read your maintenance contract and plan your modernizations, with no repairs to sell.
Three kinds of work, all on the owner’s side of the table. Here is what each one produces.
Performed or witnessed by QEI-licensed inspectors who answer to you, not to the maintenance company.
Passing an inspection is one day. Compliance is every day after it, and it is documented.
Technical judgment for the decisions that cost real money, from a firm with no equipment to sell.
Different owners, the same underlying problem: the only technical opinion in the room comes from the company that profits from the answer.
Most elevator maintenance contracts let the contractor find the problem, price the repair, perform it and certify that it is done. Nobody else looks.
Here is how that plays out. An annual inspection cites a worn hoist rope. The maintenance company quotes the replacement, does the work and marks the violation corrected. The owner pays and moves on. Six months later a different inspector finds the same rope, because the “replacement” was a rope that was re-terminated, not replaced, and the correction was self-certified.
With an independent firm in the loop, the violation goes into a log with a due date. When the contractor reports it corrected, one of our inspectors confirms the new rope is on the sheave and the data tag matches the invoice before the item closes. The same discipline applies to a $400,000 modernization proposal: we assess the equipment’s actual condition and remaining life and tell you whether the work is due, premature or being scoped for the contractor’s convenience.
Because Elevator Compliance Group sells no maintenance, repairs or equipment, there is nothing in it for us either way. That is the whole product.
How we workInspection, compliance and consulting for elevators, escalators and moving walks, from a single building to a multi-state portfolio.
Annual, acceptance, witnessing and category inspections performed or overseen by QEI-licensed inspectors who work for you, not the maintenance contractor.
Learn moreEscalators and moving walks in high-traffic public spaces, inspected and witnessed by QEI-licensed inspectors with no repair business to protect.
Learn moreTechnical and regulatory guidance across the elevator lifecycle: inspections, contractor performance, maintenance strategy, modernization and capital planning.
Learn moreObjective guidance on escalator and moving walk condition, inspection findings, contractor performance and long-term planning.
Learn moreOngoing oversight so inspection findings become documented corrections: report review, violation tracking, verification and authority coordination.
Learn moreEvery violation logged, assigned, deadline-tracked and verified closed by someone who isn’t the contractor that has to fix it.
Learn moreFind out what your maintenance agreement actually covers, what it excludes and who is on the hook for code items, before renewal, not after a shutdown.
Learn moreCondition and remaining-life assessment, phased modernization plans and defensible capital budgets from a consultant who doesn’t sell equipment.
Learn moreAn extension of your team with the technical knowledge to evaluate contractors, inspectors and proposals on your behalf.
Learn moreWe learn the portfolio, the equipment, the jurisdictions and what’s been going wrong, then scope the engagement to what you need.
QEI-licensed inspectors and consultants assess the equipment, the inspection history and the maintenance contract to identify compliance and performance issues.
You get a clear report: each finding, the code section behind it, its severity and what correcting it should involve.
We build the correction plan, track every item to verified closure and keep the documentation the authority will ask for.
Every property type has its own failure mode: a hospital elevator is clinical infrastructure, an airport escalator is passenger flow, a condominium elevator is a hundred phone calls. We have worked in all of them.
Headquartered in Fort Mill, South Carolina, fifteen minutes from Charlotte, with a strong presence across Texas and dedicated programs in nine states. Every state regulates elevators differently; each page below explains how, and what we do about it.
No. Elevator Compliance Group does not perform repairs, sell maintenance contracts or bid modernization work. We inspect, verify and advise. That independence is the reason owners hire us.
In states that allow owner-hired third-party inspectors, such as Texas, Florida, Colorado, Iowa, Georgia and Arkansas, yes, with QEI-licensed inspectors. In states where only government inspectors perform the periodic inspection, such as North Carolina and Oklahoma, we prepare the equipment, represent you during the inspection and manage everything the report requires.
It depends on unit count, equipment type and scope. A single-building inspection is priced per unit; portfolio compliance programs and consulting are scoped and quoted after a short consultation. Send us the building details and you will have a number within one business day.
Pre-inspection readiness and report reviews can usually start within a week. Inspections are scheduled around your jurisdiction’s deadlines and the contractor’s availability for tests.
Call 803-574-9625 or send the building details. We respond within one business day.
