Greenland Centre Sydney Tops Out at 68 Stories A September ceremony marked the topping out of Greenland Centre Sydney (ELEVATOR WORLD, September 2017), a 68-story mixed-use skyscraper overlooking the city’s iconic harbor and evolving CBD, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) reported. The 245-m-tall tower, developed by Greenland Australia and designed by…
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KONE Touchless Elevator System for Oakville Development KONE has been hired to provide six MonoSpace® 500 elevators with the Elevator Call touchless solution to Distrikt Trailside, a residential development taking shape in Oakville, a suburb of Toronto. It represents the Canadian debut of Elevator Call, a cloud-based solution allowing users to call an elevator with…
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CP Automation Acquires Magnetek Elevator U.K. CP Automation, headquartered in Scunthorpe, has acquired Magnetek Elevator UK from Columbus McKinnon Corp., CP announced in September. CP specializes in supply, repair and field services for industrial electronic AC drives, resistors, DC drives, programmable logic controllers and inverters, while Magnetek supplies AC and DC drives for geared and…
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Singapore Hitachi to Supply 300 Elevators to HDB Hitachi Elevator Asia has won a contract to supply 300 elevators for residential buildings in Singapore, the company announced in September. The deal, reported by Benzinga, is the latest large contract the company has received from the Housing & Development Board (HDB). The company was awarded another…
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Planned Goes From 12 to 40 Stories in Raleigh The City Council in Raleigh, North Carolina, unanimously approved a rezoning request from Zimmer Development Corp. that takes a proposed downtown building from 12 to 40 stories, The News&Observer reported in September. Located on a vacant 1.5-acre plot at 506 Capital Boulevard near the intersection of…
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Vista Tower, Chicago’s third-tallest building at 101 stories and 1,191 ft (ELEVATOR WORLD, June 2015 and July 2016), is headed for opening this fall, with finishing touches going onto the façade in August, Chicago YIMBY reported. Featuring gentle curves and a range of window colors to meet heat-load demands, the tower was designed by Jeanne…
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Major Legal Victory for Two Bridges Supertall Plans A unanimous decision by the New York Appellate Court paves the way for four towers along the waterfront in the Two Bridges neighborhood on the Lower East Side. Handed down in August, the ruling allows developers JDS Development Group, CIM Group, L+M Development Partners and Starrett Corp.…
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Plan Promising to Transform Riverfront Greenlit Penn’s Landing, a US$3.5-billion, 3.5-million-ft2 proposal from The Durst Organization of NYC, was approved in September by Delaware River Waterfront Corp. (DRWC), paving the way for transformation of a 7.4-acre swath of land on the riverfront that “the highway cleaved from the city center more than a half-century ago,”…
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Elevator cab sterilization system wins approvals; an OEM gathers information. CEC Approved to Conform With Standards CEC Elevator Cab Corp. of Bronx, New York, has been approved by British multinational assurance, inspection, product testing and certification company Intertek for ETL Listing in conformance with UL507 Standards (U.S.) and certification to CSA STD C22.2, Rule 113…
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Our annual photo contest never ceases to amaze me with the beauty and creativity at work in the elevator industry. It’s not just that we build beautiful objects; we see the beauty all around us and relish it. We had more entries this year than ever, and the winners came from Taipei, San Francisco, the…
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