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Dan Winslow, CEIS and Senior Consultant, CNY Elevator Group
[…] design allowed me to work with many different types of materials and systems and various trades, which never gets boring.” After several years of designing and managing projects for fire protection systems, elevators and underground water-piping supplies, and working with mechanical-design teams, Winslow, along with three partners, started consulting firm CNY Elevator Group. Winslow […]
The World of Elevator Consultants
[…] elevator companies. His report not only describes the history and growth of the elevator consulting field, but also discusses the often misunderstood concept of “value engineering” a project and the benefit it can bring when properly applied. An Industry Profile on CNY Elevator Consulting founder Dan Winslow indicates this company has grown to include […]
Elevator Consulting as Value Engineering
[…] Pei and Cesar Pelli would have been frustrated (if not severely limited) by purveyors of mechanical services who told them, “This is what you get for your project!” Without this “revolution,” would we have the architectural wonders we see today in the Middle East and Asia, the likes of the Petronas Towers in Kuala […]
Research on Elevator Control Method
[…] and 10). Acknowledgements This paper is supported by the National Science Foundation of China and Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Nonprofit Industry Specialized Research Funding Projects. to that of air-conditioning systems in the perspective of a whole building’s energy consumption (5-15%), it should take advantage of regenerative energy. This article will focus […]
Is Destination Dispatch User Friendly?
[…] Woodman and Dinesh Musalekar With more than eight million elevators in service around the world, elevator use is an essential part of urban life, and, with strong projected growth of construction during the next 15 years, this should only intensify. The increasing level of complexity and magnitude of high-profile construction projects in the world […]
The Right Elevator Consultant
[…] be taken to review the codes in detail, and manage and assemble teams to deal with the new changes to avoid being shaken due to lack of preparation. Overall, an elevator consultant specializes in all aspects of elevators/escalators, including new construction, modernization, maintenance, inspection, testing, design, project management, codes, local laws, compliance, pricing and timeframe.
Elevators For a Social Project in Rio De Janeiro
[…] to ThyssenKrupp Elevadores Brasil, she became acquainted with the company’s social programs developed in its plants and other social environments. This is the case of the Social Project in the Morro Cantagalo in Río de Janeiro. ThyssenKrupp Elevadores supplied and installed vertical transportation to facilitate the favela inhabitants with access to the city’s metro […]
Melbourne CBD Expansion Proposed
[…] completed after five years of construction. The 58-story skyscraper, built by Matthews Development, is to be fully occupied by the end of the year. Now that the project is complete in the downtown core east of Centre Street, some are seeing the development of more office space, particularly in the East Village. Eighth Avenue […]
Lift Solutions/Adams Announcements
[…] been launched (ELEVATOR WORLD, March 2012). Customers can also view part listings and supplier information at the company’s listing in the Elevator World Source eDirectory (elevatorworld.com/directory). Miramar Project Faces Opposition More than 1,000 Santa Monica, California, residents are opposing the Miramar Hotel’s plans to transform the existing hotel into a multi-use complex that would […]
The Tortoise and the Hare
When I started at Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B) in October 1964, the firm was engaged in a major elevator modernization project for the City of New York. Throughout the city’s five boroughs, the elevators in a number of healthcare centers were in excess of 25 years old and, in many cases, in dire […]
