On February 18, 2026, the ISO/TC 178 Technical Committee of the International Organization for Standardization officially issued the technical specification ISO/TS 8100-23:2026 Lifts — Part 23: Sustainable design specification for lifts, which will officially take effect on August 18, 2026. It is the first special general technical specification for the whole life cycle sustainable design of elevators in the global elevator industry. The core contents of this technical specification include: First, clarify the scope of application of the specification, covering all types of elevators, escalators and moving walks, applicable to the sustainability management of the whole life cycle of equipment design, manufacture, installation, operation and maintenance, transformation and scrapping. Second, establish an elevator sustainable design framework, clarify the three core dimensions of sustainable design: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and social sustainability, and formulate detailed design guidelines and evaluation indicators for each dimension. Third, refine the environmental sustainability design requirements, and formulate special design guidelines for carbon footprint accounting, low-carbon material use, recyclable design, energy-saving design, emission reduction and consumption reduction for the whole life cycle of elevator raw material selection, manufacturing process, transportation and installation, use and maintenance, and scrapping disposal, and clarify the standardized method for the whole life cycle carbon footprint accounting of elevators. Fourth, standardize the economic sustainability design requirements, and formulate special design guidelines for the whole life cycle cost accounting, reliability design, durability design, maintainability design, and component versatility design of elevators, to ensure that elevators achieve the best economic benefits within the whole life cycle. Fifth, clarify the social sustainability design requirements, and formulate special design guidelines for elevator barrier-free design, age-friendly design, personnel safety protection, noise control, vibration control, and healthy and comfortable riding environment design, adapting to the use needs of different groups of people, and improving the riding experience and safety. Sixth, formulate an elevator sustainability evaluation system, establish a graded evaluation index and scoring method for elevator sustainability, and clarify the sustainability grade division standard and evaluation process. Seventh, standardize the verification and declaration requirements for elevator sustainable design, formulate the verification method, test process and qualification criteria for elevator sustainable design, and clarify the content, form and use rules of elevator product sustainability declaration. After its release, this technical specification has been adopted as the technical basis for green and low-carbon elevator product certification by many countries and regions around the world such as the European Union, China, the United States and Japan, promoting the green and low-carbon transformation and sustainable development of the global elevator industry.