Trump

Project Description

Located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, the architecturally pleasing historic

landmark building identified as the “United States Post Office” is located within walking

distance from the White House, National Archives, and The Smithsonian. The Trump

Organization leased the building in 2013 from the General Service Administration (GSA) and

has transformed the site into a luxury hotel in record time. Quality Elevator Company was

awarded this prestigious contract to complete the Elevator Modernization portion of this

massive, historic Renovation. This project encompassed a Custom Design to modernize eleven

existing elevators, install two new dumbwaiters, three new handicap lifts, along with Design and

engineered drawings for an eleven-stop new construction Freight Elevator designed to service all

floors within the hotel. This is all inside an existing building whose historic structure was not

designed to carry such loads. Complications were such that the foundation for the building was

located on massive wooden piles driven down into the ground to carry the building loads. The

wooden pile foundation points could not be disturbed as part of this project. This project has

recently been completed, and was turned over ahead of schedule under budget.

Quality Elevator Company has been awarded several contracts for Elevator Maintenance and

Repairs at the Old Post Office since 2007. Over these past 10 years, Quality Elevator Company

has successfully performed several repairs and upgrades. The Trump International Hotel

Elevator Modernization Project consisted of upgrading the cab shells and cab interiors. Quality

Elevator Company also upgraded four hydraulic controllers and two traction controllers to MCE

Microprocessor Controllers. The Door Operator Systems on these elevators were replaced. Two

Hollister Whitney Machines were refurbished, and retrofitted rope grippers were installed.

Quality Elevator Company proposed the use MCE’s Freedom Machineroomless MP Series

Elevator for the new freight elevator installation portion of this project. The Freedom MRL-MP

product is structurally guiderail bearing, eliminating the need for building overhead structural

loading. This was a major design factor on this project due to the undocumented building

structure and the potential for damaging the historical masonry façade.