What you don't know about elevators WILL NOT hurt you. The tallest building in the world may not have the "tallest" elevators. Why, you may ask, well let me tell you. When installing an elevator in a tall building, there are a few factors that you may not have taken into consideration.
Top to bottom cost, how much will it cost to ensure safety from top to bottom? How tall do you wish your building to be? We can break it down into segments and build it that way.
We can split your high rise into three or four "sections", a low rise, a mid rise, a high rise, and a freight. We start with the "low rise", maybe the first 15 stories. We arrange them on one side of the building, preferably near the main entrance. Those cars take you up 15 stories.
More below the elevator pit...
We may sneak a "mid-rise" section of elevators in here jumping from your mezzanine to the say 20th floor. These elevators might be one "bank" of your low rise elevators. This may represent the first "low rise" elevators in your building.
Most tall buildings have a low rise, mid rise, and high rise lobby. You want to go to the 13th floor? Well you are shit out of luck, there is no 13th floor. Let's go to the 27th floor, then we need you to head to the middle of the building. We could also ask you to go to any other quadrant of the building in question, let's say center of your office building.
Do you want to ride an elevator from the lobby to the 27th floor? Sure, how quickly? We allocate two cars to go from the lobby to the 35th floor. That's your mid-rise cars. They get you at the lobby and only drop you off above the 16th floor. Confused yet, think about how I feel building, repairing, and maintaining, these beasts.
Let's get into to the third tier logic, lobby, to 20somethingth floor, to 36th floor, and upward. You see what I'm up against, and I'm just asking for a single moment to unwind.
Cut me a break.