Power Plant Elevator Shaft

Exoskeleton and a strong foundation....

https://www.wired.com/2015/07/keep-1500-foot-skyscraper-falling/

http://article.aascit.org/file/pdf/9200722.pdf

https://www.tuf-bar.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ASCE_JCC_La_Chanceliere_Parking.pdf like this one ?

..."The engineering task for the construction of the supporting structure for a modern steam generator comprehends the design and the erection of an approximately 100 m high tower on which the steam generator is suspended, allowing free downward extension.

The classical Solution for this task is a steel structure which commonly is considered as a part of the boiler. Access facilities like fire protected stair cases and elevator shafts are located according to operational requirements and construction regulations. Normally these facilities are installed into free-standing reinforced concrete towers, which are incorporated in or situated beside the boiler house.

For this task, a new reinforced concrete design was developed, integrating the stair cases and elevator shafts into the supporting structure of the boiler. This new design uses all the advantages of modern reinforced concrete technique like slipforming and lifting technique and proved very competitive compared with conventional steel structures. Therefore, the owners' decision was in favor of this reinforced concrete design for their new thermal power plant at Dürnrohr/Austria (405 MW + 320 MW). Civil work for the first boiler supporting structure was finished 1982, construction work for the second unit is in progress according to time schedule 1983."...

Link to pdf....

Thanks SolarEagle, you're the man, exactly on the spot!

Assumimg coal elevation is not to be achieved by any kind of conveyor-belt, or other mechanism, then simplistically, an elevator shaft is a machine that conveys a (variably weighted box) at (possibly irregularly varying velocities) vertically (variable distances) while imparting variable horizontal loadings to the four corners at each level, and variable vertical loadings at each level, especially to the foundation and to the highest vertical level, which may, or may not, be the topmost building level, connected to, but relatvely isolated from the surrounding structure, at each corner of each floor level, if it is to be a winch-type elevator that does not shake itself apart over time....

Thus, the (shaft-machine) should be a steel structure, with a more-than-adequate foundation, appropriately-sized isolation-dampening-linkages at both lateral directions at each corner, and at each floor-level, and (vertical-dampeners) at all floor levels, depending on whether or not if it's to be a standard winch-type elevator.

(Track-mounted-type) elevators may be a different matter.

(Hydraulic-type) elevators are definitely a different matter...

Thanx for answering.

The elevator in question is just maintenance elevator for personnel and tools, possibly some smaller equipment transport, coal supply is by inclined conveyor bridge.

Clarity at last!!!