Platform for assembling elevator equipment

A platform for temporary use in the assembly of elevator equipment in an elevator shaft in a building comprising:

• the platform being adapted to be arranged substantially in a region of a shaft opening of the elevator shaft, wherein the platform in use partially sits on a floor surface of the building and partially protrudes into the elevator shaft through the shaft opening;
• the platform including a bottom frame and a plurality of bottom plates, the bottom plates either lie on the bottom frame or are inserted into the bottom frame, and the bottom frame includes two lateral bottom bars;
• wherein the bottom frame includes a front transverse bar and a rear transverse bar, the front and rear transverse bars interconnecting the two lateral bottom bars;
• the bottom frame including at least two intermediate bars that are arranged parallel to the two lateral bottom bars and are supported by the front and rear transverse bars;
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• wherein the at least two intermediate bars are arranged such that an erection beam extends between the at least two intermediate bars from a threshold area of the shaft opening obliquely upwards into the elevator shaft.