Roof Car Systems
A roof car travels along a guide rail around the roof and lowers a cradle from its jib to any drop on the façade.
The roof car runs on a rail fixed to the roof slab. At each drop, the operator positions the jib over the façade and the cradle is lowered on wire ropes. Once a drop is complete, the cradle is raised, the machine travels to the next position and the process repeats until the elevation is covered.
Rail layouts may follow a single guide or a double-rail arrangement, on concrete or steel supports, depending on the roof. The final configuration is confirmed by Hauteur's engineering team against the project drawings.
Operation
The machine rests in its parking zone, clear of roof plant.
It travels on the rail and the jib extends over the façade.
Operators descend the drop to clean, inspect or repair.
The cradle is recovered and the machine returns to park.
Selected projects
Hauteur's portfolio of façade-access projects: monorails, roof cars, davits, fixed-base systems, custom cradles and special access across Egypt.
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Roof plan, typical sections and elevations, building height and number of floors, façade materials and any roof equipment or set-backs. Early drawings are enough to start system selection; details are refined as the design develops.
As early as possible — ideally during design development. Rails, sockets, anchors and roof loads affect the structure, the parapet and the roof finishes, and are far simpler to integrate before construction.
Yes. Hauteur surveys existing roofs and façades to propose a system that fits the structure as built, and also inspects and maintains existing access equipment.
Share the roof plan, elevations and building height. A Hauteur engineer will review the façade and recommend an access strategy.
A BMU is the permanent machine that carries people and equipment to every part of a façade. It is designed with the building, from the roof structure that supports it to the cradle that reaches the glass.
A track fixed to the building carries a trolley and a powered cradle along the façade — horizontally under the roof edge, or vertically on articulated elevations.
The cradle is where the work happens. Its length, controls and suspension are chosen to suit the façade, the task and the system it hangs from.