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They’ll Take Manhattan
[…] DTM has been on top of bridges, under the water, in corporate headquarters and in condominium and co-op apartments.” On any given day, this involves providing expert project oversight and advice to thousands of property owners, managers and real-estate companies in the NYC area and beyond. Keeping pace with daily demands is challenging but […]
Reimagining the Future of Vertical Transportation
[…] maintain and pleasing to watch. Of course, for broad acceptance, the system needs to be offered at an affordable price that could fit not only high-end, high-rise projects, but also mid-range, low-rise buildings. Screens in elevators today are usually only seen in high-end buildings, often containing advertisements not suited to such locations as residential […]
VF Drives
[…] deemed very inefficient by today’s standards. Sufficient electrical power was available to permit early experimenters to build prototypical DC motors, but they were adequate only for demonstration projects and as scientific curiosities. Very little useful work could be performed but never enough to lift an elevator car off the ground. Viable electric motors had […]
Elevator Group Control Optimal
[…] main performance indicators significantly improved, compared with the static and dynamic partitioning methods, and the commonly used methods of fuzzy and neural network control. Acknowledgement Special research projects funded by AQSIQ Public Welfare Industry (2012104016, 201310153). Figure 1: Elevator group GA flowchart FigurFige 3: Syure stem par3: ametSer setting interfaceystem parameter setting interface Figure […]
The First Elevator Inspectors’ Manual
[…] would be “furnished by the elevator manufacturer.” The stopwatch and tachometer served the same purpose – measuring the speed of the elevator to ensure it met the project specifications when carrying its “full contract load.” The 50-ft. tape was used to “measure the distance between two of the intermediate floor landings as far apart […]
Young Engineers Club Takes on Cable Car Project
On January 25, 72 sixth- and seventh-grade students in the Eastbourne Young Engineers Club participated in an engineering project at Bede’s Preparatory School in East Sussex, U.K. The challenge was designed based on the Emirates Air Line cable car project in London (ELEVATOR WORLD, January 2013). The club is chaired by David Cooper of […]
WTC Site Formally Opens
[…] mixed-use development in downtown Los Angeles (LA) marked a construction milestone on November 20 with a bottoming-out ceremony. Developer Korean Air and its construction team hit the project’s lowest point – 106 ft. below ground – after demolishing the 1950s-era Wilshire Grand hotel. They will now begin building a glass-encased tower that will house […]
Upcoming Canadian Developments
[…] Montreal. Also, as an exclusive distributor of Fujitec Canada escalators, Global Tardif will be providing and installing 24 escalators on 11 of the metro’s 13 stations. This project is part of STM’s 2012-2015 Universal Access Development Plan; in all, more than CAD87 million (US$83 million) will be invested in making the STM’s network more […]
Difficulties in Comparing the Results of Lift-Traffic-Simulations
[…] further, to offer and to install DCS on selected future projects. Eight years later, Schindler got the order to install their first commercial DCS on the JI project ‘Eurotheum’, a high-rise office building in Frankfurt, Germany. The building was commissioned in the year 2000. The lifts were designed for a conventional control system and […]
A New Look
This month’s issue of ELEVATOR WORLD includes the winners of the 2014 Project of the Year contest. As in years past, we again had a good response to the event, with 21 significant entries from 12 different nations in six categories. This response is reflective of the improving economic trend we have been seeing in our industry […]