Details are revealed about Otis Latin America’s projects, history and future.
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In this Readers’ Platform, your author describes HMI systems for touchless operation, including those from his Germany-headquartered company. by Rudolf Sosnowsky Do you know the theremin? It’s an almost forgotten musical instrument with a special feature: you can play it without touching it. Exactly that — the touchless operation of elevators — is made possible…
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Recently on social media, I’ve noticed some misunderstandings about the roles and responsibilities of certain stakeholders in our industry. In particular, misunderstandings concerning the roles of the competent person undertaking statutory examinations under Regulation 9 of Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) and those of the authorising engineer (AE) under Health Technical Memoranda…
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Associations share hot topics and outlook.
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What is the Ansoff Matrix? The Ansoff Matrix is a 2 x 2 matrix with its roots in a paper written by Igor Ansoff in 1957, but it is still relevant and useful today. The paper proposed that product marketing strategy could be categorised by thinking about new and existing products and new and existing…
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Chairman of document creation committee gives an overview of the many changes in this updated guide.
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Collaborations ensure elevator SMEs will find voice and fulfillment. submitted by EFESME EFESME, by its nature in the European Federation to protect and support lift small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), expresses the importance of representing the national association level and bases its structure and a good part of its activities on this effort. Collaboration with…
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Highlights of an airflow study conducted to determine the relative risk of exposure to COVID-19 among elevator passengers
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Engineers set the current state of the art The Association of German Engineers (VDI, Verein Deutscher Ingenieure) is the third-largest German technical standardization body. It issues up to 250 standards per year from its portfolio of more than 2,200 valid VDI standards. They are trendsetting and practice-oriented technical rules that set quality standards in many…
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In the recent case of Optimus Build Ltd. v. Southall & McManus, the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) considered a dispute in which the contractor believed the contract was a fixed-price contract, and the employer believed it to be a cost-plus contract. Both parties claimed the other committed a repudiatory breach before the works had…
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