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{{Infobox company| | name = Lerch Bates | logo = LB Logo Full Color.png | logo_size = 250px | type = Employee Owned | foundation = 1947 | location_city = Denver | location_country = USA | industry = Engineering and service | services = Lerch Bates is the global multidisciplinary technical consultancy saving time and money for those designing, modernizing, investigating or managing buildings. Lerch Bates offers integrated specialties that include vertical transportation, logistics, enclosures & structures, forensics, building maintenance equipment services (BMES); and multidisciplinary building lifecycle services that optimize performance from design, construction and management to forensic investigation, repair and modernization. | num_employees = 300+ | homepage = http://www.lerchbates.com }} '''Lerch Bates''' is an international consulting services company <ref>{{Cite web|title = About Lerch Bates|url = http://www.lerchbates.com/about/Default.aspx|website = www.lerchbates.com|access-date = 2016-01-30}}</ref> specializing in the design and management of building systems with 36 offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and India. Founded in 1947, focused on elevator consulting, they work with architects, developers, building investors, owners and managers on the design, sustainability and continuous use of building systems
Specific services offered include: planning and design (including CAD), survey and evaluation of existing systems and equipment, contracting management, development of specifications, bidding assistance and negotiation, project management and administration, testing, and training.
==Projects== {{more citations needed section|date=September 2014}} {{Unreliable|date=August 2024}} Some of the buildings and projects that Lerch Bates has contributed to:
*Burj Khalifa, Dubai<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/BURJ_DUBAI/consultants.html|title=The Skyscraper Museum|first=carol|last=willis|website=www.skyscraper.org|accessdate=7 October 2018}}</ref> *Freedom Tower, New York City<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fastest-elevators-in-the-west-climb-tallest-skyscraper-in-the-west/|title=Fastest Elevators in the West Climb Tallest Skyscraper in the West|first=Larry|last=Greenemeier|website=Scientific American |publisher=|accessdate=7 October 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://skyscrapercenter.com/building/one-world-trade-center/98|title=One World Trade Center - The Skyscraper Center|website=skyscrapercenter.com|accessdate=7 October 2018}}</ref> *201 Bishopsgate, London{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.akdn.org/akaa_award9_awards_detail7.asp|title=Petronas Office Towers - Aga Khan Development Network|website=www.akdn.org|accessdate=7 October 2018}}</ref> *Taipei 101, Taipei<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a4414/1280851/|title=World's Fastest Elevator|date=7 December 2004|publisher=|accessdate=7 October 2018}}</ref> *Russia Tower, Moscow<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fosterandpartners.com/projects/russia-tower/|title=Russia Tower - Foster + Partners|first=Foster + Partners /|last=www.fosterandpartners.com|website=www.fosterandpartners.com|accessdate=7 October 2018}}</ref> *Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *Trump International Hotel and Tower, Dubai{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *Signature Tower, Nashville{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *Moscow City Tower, Moscow{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *Marina 101, Dubai{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *Google Headquarters,<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://redchalksketch.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/google-hq-ingenhoven-architects/|title = Google HQ {{!}} Ingenhoven Architects|website = redchalksketch| date=13 August 2011 |access-date = 2016-03-04}}</ref> Mountain View
==Company history== {{unreferenced section|date=September 2014}} In 1947, Charles W. Lerch started a company performing maintenance and repairs, ''C. W. Lerch Co'', (widely accepted as the first independent elevator consulting company) in Chicago.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Lerch Bates History|url = http://www.lerchbates.com/about/History.aspx|website = www.lerchbates.com|access-date = 2016-01-30}}</ref> He later added elevator consulting as a side business. In 1964 Charles W. Lerch was joined by Vane Q. Bates and both men working full-time on elevator consulting. The firm moved to its offices to Denver, Colorado that same year and officed downtown in the Patterson Building on 17th Street (since demolished). The Company moved a number of times but has maintained its HQ in and around Denver. In 1974 the company was incorporated as ''Lerch Bates & Associates'' and by the 1980s building boom, and under the leadership of Quent Bates (CW Lerch having died in the early 1980s) Lerch Bates had 15 offices in North America. In 1985 ''Lerch Bates Limited'' in London was formed and in 1990 it created the first "Performance Related" maintenance contact, which related equipment downtime and traffic performance to maintenance premiums. In 1994 under the direction of Quent Bates and his quest to reward the employees, Lerch Bates became an employee owned company and is now considered one of the best and longest running ESOP's in the US. In 1998 Lerch Bates designed the world's fastest elevators for the then world's tallest building, the Taipei Financial Centre / Taipei 101.
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==External links== *[http://www.lerchbates.com Lerch Bates Corporate Website]
Category:Design companies established in 1947 Category:Engineering consulting firms of the United States Category:International engineering consulting firms Category:1947 establishments in Illinois