Most elevators use a counterweight equal to the weight of the elevator plus 40% of its maximum rated load. This counterweight reduces the weight that the motor must lift and ensures that the elevator does not get out of control when the cable is complete. The Escalator Company will configure the elevator most reasonably. In the hoist drum installation, the hoisting rope extends downwardly from the drive spool attached to the lift motor, surrounding the large pulley at the top of the elevator until the second pulley suspended from the top of the elevator shaft extends down to the counterweight.

In the traction roller device, the cable extends upward from the elevator once it bypasses the drive roller connected to the hoist motor and then returns to the counterweight. Elevators and counterweights, called cars, run on their own tracks. The second governor cable extends from the car to the governor pulley and then extends to the tensioner at the bottom of the elevator shaft to the car.

The elevator car is built at the elevator manufacturer's factory using standard metal cutting, welding and forming techniques. If the car is exposed to the weather during construction, the room can be installed after the building is completed. The remaining elevators are assembled on the job site. The building design integrated the elevator shaft from the beginning, and the shaft grew as the building erected. The vertical shaft wall is cast concrete and the shaft is straight.

The elevator is perpendicular to the vertical position and horizontal plane of the car: the determined mode of transport. Like a car, modern elevators were the second industrial revolution at the end of the nineteenth century. Like cars, they change the face of the city and change the way people live and work. Today, just as the future of laser radars is detecting cars, elevators are ready to change the city again.

The elevator also makes the workplace more regular. The interior of the structure built around the stairs is much stricter than it is now, and the mezzanine and back layers provide different access to the same floor. The elevator brings new simplicity. The lobby where the elevator arrives and leaves is the focus of each floor.