NEWS
March 2026 - Project Oriel
We recently visited one of our new projects, Project Oriel. It was a great morning on site, working with our partners at Banyards to provide expert advice and carry out the required specialised HTM inspections on 14 new lifts.
This state of the art facility represents the future of Moorfields Eye Hospital, which has supported so many people across London and the surrounding areas for many years.
March 2026 - Wolterton Hall
Vertex VT Consultants have been appointed to work alongside Historic England on a project at one of the country’s listed buildings. The team will support the design of a new disabled hoist, carefully developed to complement the character of the property while enhancing accessibility. The building is a striking example of historic architecture, and the team is proud to be involved in the project.
January 2026 - Sponsorship renewal with Harry Hickton
Vertex are pleased to announce the renewed sponsorship of Harry Hickton, racing again in this year’s Vertu Mini Challenge in the JCW class, a support class to the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC).
As per last year we are looking forward to supporting Harry, we will be attending two rounds this year at Brands Hatch cheering car #64 on.
All the best Harry and here’s to the 2026 championship challenge!
December 2025 - Vertex360 Portal Launch
We are pleased to introduce Vertex360, our new client portal designed to centralise all lift-related documentation in one secure and easy-to-use platform. Vertex360 provides clients with 24/7 access to essential records such as service sheets, quotations, LOLER reports, and other key documentation, helping to improve visibility, efficiency, and compliance across lift maintenance management.
We look forward to clients benefiting from this enhanced digital experience!
October 2025 - Fortnum and Mason, Bicester Village
It was with great pleasure that we made our final inspection of the recently installed platform hoist at the new Fortum and Mason experience at Bicester Village, this is there only other store outside of Piccadilly in London.
Our role was to provide our full suite lift consultancy services from concept through to completion ensuring that the client got the right product to suit their staff and busy operation, the hoist installed was from Motala based in Sweden, an excellent product fit for its purpose.
It is fair to say the staff were very happy with their new hoist!
July 2025 - McDonalds ROI Hoist Replacement
Another great install for our partners at McDonalds in the ROI, replacing the old hoist with a new Rhino Pro, fair to say the restaurant were very pleased with the end result as we were when we carried out the test completion checks, well done to Olympic Lifts who completed the installation, within budget and on time.
June 2025 - Lift Industry Kart Race
Over the weekend, members of Vertex VT Consultants took part in the annual Lift Kart Race at Buckmore Park in aid of the Lift Industry Charity.
Overall, we came sixth out of a total of 28 teams and won the Challenge Trophy for being the highest finishing new team!
Well done to all those that took part - we look forward to racing again next year!
March 2025 - New Sponsorship
Vertex VT Consultants Ltd are very excited to have the privilege of sponsoring Harry Hickton for the upcoming season in the 2025 Mini Challenge which is the support race for the BTCC. Best of luck to Harry for the season kicking off next month!
January 2025 - Exciting New Projects
2025 has got off to a great start with Vertex being commissioned on four new modernisation projects for GPE as well as project managing the lift works on numerous McDonalds sites across the UK, here’s to 2025 continuing as it started!
July 2024 - The Worlds Toughest Rowing Race Sponsorship
The Worlds Toughest Rowing Race is commencing later on this year and Vertex VT Consultants Ltd are proud to have sponsored their navigation equipment. It will be a massive challenge for the team for sure but we know they will absolutely smash it!
May 2024 - Celebrating 5 Years of Vertex VT Consultants
Vertex VT Consultants are celebrating their fifth year in business, a real milestone considering we started the practice as Covid hit, five years on and we are providing our lift consultancy and engineering services to some of the biggest brands in the World throughout the UK and Europe, a massive thanks to our fantastic clients, suppliers and our dedicated staff who make it all an absolute pleasure, with a bulging order book and client list we move forward positively for the future and beyond….with our continued growth we have more news to announce shortly!
May 2024 - New Staff Announcement
Due to continued expansion linked to organic growth we now take great pleasure in introducing Freddie James to the team at Vertex.
Freddie started out as an improver working with a fitter installing new lifts before completing his apprenticeship with a large and successful independent lift company, mainly working on repairs and lift modernisation projects, sub-contracting to the industry followed providing Freddie with invaluable experience on how other businesses operate as well as the facility of working on a variety of different equipment.
The lure of consultancy beckoned with Freddie joining us as a Technical Associate based in our office in Keston, Kent where Freddies main role will be to support the business completing audits and technical condition surveys.
Team Vertex wish him all the best in this new and exciting chapter of his career.
April 2024 - The Brunel Hotel
It is great to be supporting our new client at The Brunel Hotel providing a range of lift consultancy services to assist with their day to day operations, this is one of a group of hotels in the same chain all located in the West End.
April 2024 - Hotel Cafe Royal
It is great to be back working with the legendary and historic Hotel Cafe Royal in Regent St, London providing lift consultancy to support them and their 20+ lifts.
March 2024 - Kings Hill Lift Replacements, Kent
Vertex are pleased to be involved in the replacement of two dated hydraulic lifts at the beautiful Kings Hill development in leafy Kent.
Working for the site management team, we surveyed the existing lifts then produced the specification for their replacement, an important piece of work as one of the lifts is depended on by an NHS cancer support clinic where patients need to move between floors for their treatment.
March 2024 - 35 Portman Square, London W1
A busy start to the year for us at Vertex, another great commission from Great Portland Estates with the modernization of four ‘high end’ lifts bringing them up to current Code Standard providing the building users with safe and reliable lift service for many years to come.
The four-car group of lifts vary in capacities and floors served, all incorporating bespoke internal car finishes, door finishing and architraves, a scheme we have engineered as the existing lifts have all received various enhancements over the years so no one lift will receive the same works.
February 2024 - Advanced Research Clusters
We have recently been involved with ARC and their professional team providing lift consultancy for their new and ambitious development plans; a fascinating scheme of buildings providing research laboratories, state of the art offices and amenities!
December 2023 - Oar Mighty Mates
Best of luck to Stuart and Andy who are setting off shortly for a 3000 mile rowing challenge across the Atlantic, Vertex VT Consultants Ltd played our small part in sponsoring them and providing some of the navigation equipment so they don’t get lost! You’ve got this lads... Enjoy!
November 2023 - BBC Wogan House
Vertex are part of a great new project working for the BBC at Wogan House which is the home of Radio 2, technical appraisals on the existing lifts!
November 2023 - New Sponsorship
As part of our commitment to supporting our local community, Vertex have recently sponsored a Bromley based football team, Old Wilsonians. We wish them the best of luck this season!
November 2023 - Camden Goods Yard
Great news as we enter Autumn, a new commission with St George, part of the Berkeley Homes Group, to provide full lift consultancy on the mixed-use Camden Goods Yard scheme. This is a large new development in the heart of Camden, North London which includes 30 lifts plus travelators across a mix of residential and retail environments, scheduled completion is mid-2025.
October 2023 - Nike House of Innovation, Paris
We have recently undertaken the role of technical advisor and project manager undertaking upgrade works to the existing back of house goods lift, improvements included the addition of goods control switching, upgraded doors and interior car fit out as well as entrance bollards to protect the door uprights.
These improvements will really aid the in-store team who are very busy in Europe's flagship store.
September 2023 - Vertex Truck
We recently visited our friends down at Creative FX to have one of our cars wrapped, Vertex style!
You certainly won't miss us driving down the road!
July 2023 - Nike HQ Visit
Vertex have recently taken a trip to the Nike European HQ in the Netherlands where we gave a presentation and met loads of the Nike team. It was an amazing campus which we look forward to hopefully visiting again in the future!
June 2023 - Broadwater Farm Estate
Vertex have recently spent four days surveying at Broadwater Farm Estate in Tottenham, known as the ‘Farm’ by the locals and constructed between 1967-1973, now undergoing major works, a place that’s had its fair share on news over past decades but great to see the modernisation works going on.
June 2023 - Bedford Estates
Vertex have recently been commissioned by a new client, Bedford Estates, to assist them with technical lift consultancy for two new prestigious projects in Russell Square and Great Russell Street, these charming historic parts of London are a pleasure to work within, the properties being a mix of high-end office and residential schemes.
May 2023 - CPD Certified
Vertex VT Consultants are now accredited to deliver CPD (Continuous Professional Development), please contact us via info@vertexvt.com if you would like us to carry out a training workshop with your team on all things Vertical Transportation.
February 2023 - McDonald's
Today, Vertex visited a new McDonald's site to conduct a lift analysis. A great new client for us and really impressive how often they refresh their outlets so they stay at the forefront. We look forward to working with them again in the near future!
November 2022 - ITN HQ Visit
Our director, Lee was out at ITN HQ today completing surveys and audits on their lifts. Phil, Holly and Channel 4 were in the building - didn't get to peak in the studio's though!!
August 2022 - Great Portland Estates
With a relationship going back 25 years it's an honour to now be supporting GPE with the service management of their impressive lift portfolio, working with and supporting their contractors for the benefit of all, as we do at Vertex we offer a slick, new and fresh approach.
June 2022 - 9/11 Memorial
The Directors of Vertex recently took a trip to New York, an amazing place and well recommended, whilst there we visited the 9/11 memorial and museum, a sobering experience to say the least.
Relevant to us as lift consultants is the situation regards the lifts, the below was extracted from two plaques which flank the burned-out lift motor now housed in the memorial museum.
“The twin towers were the first skyscrapers to employ a system of local and express elevators, an innovation that reduced elevator travel time and made the buildings attractive to occupants of the upper floors. In addition to elevators servicing basement levels, each tower’s 99 elevators included freight, local, and high-speed express cars. Two express cars travelled directly to the windows on the World restaurant in the North Tower, and two went to the South Tower Observation Deck. The elevator motor (pictured), the largest model in the world when installed, powered one of the express or service cars, which moved at a speed of 1600 feet per minute. A total of 99 motors operated the elevator system in each tower”
“The attack on the World Trade Center precipitated the worst passenger elevator disaster in history, claiming the lives of an estimated 200 of the 2700 victims at the site. At 8:46 am, during rush hour for thousands using the elevators, hijacked Flight 11 struck the North Tower, severing elevator cables and trapping hundreds of people above the 93rd floor. Below the impact zone, most on floors lower than 92 were able to evacuate via the stairs”
“In the South Tower, some occupants began an immediate evacuation, placing them inside elevators, or about to enter or exit the cars, when hijacked Flight 175 struck that building. Smoke rose through the elevator shafts, jet fuel poured down, and flames spread in all directions. At the fire command station in the lobby of each tower personnel were unable to guide cars down the lobby or to communicate with some individuals trapped inside because of the loss of electricity. Efforts to pry the newly installed safety locks succeeded in only a few cases”
May 2022 – Nike Unite Store, Wembley
Vertex received the order to carry out full consultancy and management services for a new bespoke, scenic lift at this new Nike Unite concept store in the shadows of the famous Wembley arch. With this store being a new concept the pressure was on from day one but working with the client and their team including Mace and the main contractor a fantastic product was installed by our preferred supplier for the project, Murray Lifts. On specification, on budget and programme, an overall great job by all and a very happy client, now on to the next…….wherever that may take us!
March 2022 - National Careers Week
Vertex were very honoured and pleased to support the Buller Wood Secondary School for girls Careers fair, discussing all things lifts and lift consultancy with the year 10-13s who are considering their future careers.
March 2022 - Alyesford Bulls Sponsorship
So the Aylesford Bulls under 16s rugby team are going on tour this summer, Vertex have sponsored the tour kit.
This shirt design is certainly not for the faint hearted so let’s hope the Hulk Hogan inspired kit can lead them to victory!
August 2021 - Consort Place, Docklands, London
Vertex are very excited to announce a new consultancy commission with a new client, this landmark mixed use luxury development in London's Docklands comprises two main towers including a hotel plus a school. The project will house 15 new Schindler lift installations, four of which will serve the new 67 floor main tower. This is a great new scheme for us to be involved with and we are very much looking forward to working with our new client and partners at Midgard.
June 2021 - Nike Town, London
Vertex have been engaged to support the store with necessary enhancements to an existing goods lift within this iconic store, with local lockdowns lifting these stores are now prepared and ready to re-open to the public so it goes without saying that all internal services and facilities need to be ready and able to work at capacity.
The works Vertex are engaged with include the overseeing of door and internal car works, interacting closely with the incumbent lift maintenance contractor.
June 2021 - Nike, Malaga
With Nike building a new state of the art store in Malaga, Spain, Vertex have been instructed to provide full scope lift consultancy services relating to one new disabled access passenger lift, it's always exciting to be involved in overseas sites especially working as part of the professional team with such an iconic global brand.
June 2021 - 50 Kings Hill Avenue, Kent
We are proud to announce a new commission for a new client, the works include full scope consultancy services plus Principal Designer duties relating to the full replacement of two existing, three floor, passenger lifts for Vail Williams. The existing office building forms part of the business area within the popular Kings Hill development in West Malling, Kent.
February 2021 - Vincent Road, Woolwich - Pure Lake Group
We are pleased to announce our appointment in supporting Pure Lake Homes in the procuring of a new passenger lift at a new build scheme in Woolwich, South East London. Having attended Woolwich College in the 1990's its nice to be back in the area!
Pure Lake are a long established Bromley based property developer supplying high end apartments within the Kent and South East Regions, Vertex are very much looking forward to supporting Pure Lake with their lift requirements for many years to come.
February 2021 - Association for Project Safety
We are proud to announce that we have been accepted as 'Associate' members of the Association for Project Safety. The Association for Project Safety is the leading membership body for professionals working in design and construction, health and safety risk management.
February 2021 - SafeContractor Accreditation
We are proud to announce after months of checks and analysis that we are now accredited to SafeContractor in the roles of Professional Lift Consultancy as well as Principal Designer duties in line with the CDM Regulations 2015.
The Principal Designer role has legal obligations so as a client please ensure you assess who you are planning to use prior to appointment. There is a questionnaire on the HSE website which can aid you with this assessment.
November 2020 - Nike Town - Oxford Street, London
Our direct relationship and workload with Nike Inc. continues to grow with a new commission surveying a newly installed goods lift at Nike Town, London. With the store being one of their two flagships European stores, the other being in Paris, it was great to see how the industrious the staff were, gearing up in time for the Christmas rush and the reopening after extensive refurbishment works including major improvement works to the escalators plus the lift replacement.
October 2020 - Skillcrown, Bromley
At Skillcrown we are providing expert advice on all things lifts, across a diverse range of projects they are currently working on. Skillcrown specialise in new build apartment blocks for numerous housing associations across London and South-East.
September 2020 - Findley's of Cooden, Bexhill-on-Sea
This is a young, dynamic estates management practice that provides a full range of building management services to its clients who mostly are 'live in' tenants within apartment blocks. Vertex are providing expert advice on the lifts to ensure they comply with all relevant regulations so that the tenants have safe and reliable use of their assets for many years to come.
August 2020 - Nike Store - Hamburg, Germany
A new commission from our partners at Nike, this time just north of Hamburg, will be interesting to experience flying overseas for the first time since the Coronavirus outbreak in March. The work consists of a full dilapidation survey of an existing lift located in the new retail outlet.
July 2020 - Lego store - Leicester Square, London
Vertex have recently been commissioned to carry out a detailed survey and report on the passenger lift within the Lego Store, being a collector of Lego racing cars this is certainly more of a pleasure and does not feel like work! Maybe its only a matter of time before Lego actually build a working lift....
May 2020 - Kart racing - Kent
We at Vertex are big motorsport fans and have a real passion for grass routes kart racing, we now have a company kart which is all liveried to suit the business, we are hoping to take part in the Kent Kart Championship which is held over three rounds next year. Watch this space for more news on this plus some photos! If you see us out please come and say hello.
February 2020 - Projects in Hackney - Brighton & The Royal Docks, London
It is with real pleasure to announce the commencement of the new lift replacement and modernisation projects in Hackney, Brighton and The Royal Docks. It is great that the business cogs are starting to spin in the new world we are now living and working in. This means our positive reputation is spreading and our working with our preferred lift contractors partners lets hope it leads to ongoing repeat business.
January 2020 - New office space - Kent
Due to continued growth we have now moved to a 'holding space' within a beautiful barn in the Kent countryside, this is whilst our new purpose-built office is being constructed for a move later this year, onwards and upwards.