Elevator Installation Robot Among “Award of Excellence” Winners

Schindler’s Robotics Installation System for Elevators (R.I.S.E), part of a robotics research collaboration with the Council on Tall buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) (ELEVATOR WORLD, December 2018), is among CTBUH’s 2019 Award of Excellence winners. Including tall buildings, urban contributions, technologies and innovations, the winners now move on to compete in front of a live audience and live juries for “Best in Category” honors at the CTBUH Tall + Urban Innovation Conference on April 8-10 in Shenzhen, China. Projects in the Best Tall Building category fall into five height thresholds (under 100 m, 100-199 m, 200-299 m, 300-399 m, and 400 m and above). Tall buildings in Asia are the most prevalent, although all three winners in the Geotechnical Engineering category are in the U.S.: 181 Fremont Tower in San Francisco, Avalon Brooklyn Bay in New York City and Panorama Tower in Miami. Both competitors in the 400-m-and-above category are in China: CITIC Tower in Beijing and the Ping An Finance Center in Shenzhen; In the 300-399-m-tall category are China Resources Headquarters in Shenzhen, Jumeirah Nanjing Hotel & Cultural Center in Nanjing and MahaNakhon in Bangkok.

Competing with R.I.S.E in the Innovation category are Building Maintenance Unit and Vertical Delivery Planning at H Queen’s, Parametric Digital Strategy for Morpheus Hotel, Self-Climbing kokoon®, The Development of EFFECT — External Façade Fire Evaluation and Comparison Tool, and Viscoelastic Coupling Damper — Enhanced Efficiency and Safety for the High-Rise of the Future. For a complete list of Award of Excellence winners, visit awards.ctbuh.org/winners. CITIC Tower for Beijing