At least two new skyscraper projects are set to launch in Cebu, Philippines, SunStar reported in February. The first project, designed by Paris-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures, involves a 32-story, 115-m-tall “organic” residential tower being called The Rainbow Tree, in honor of the rainbow eucalyptus, a colorful tree common in the Philippines. The tower structure will…
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2M Launches Academy With TÜV SÜD, Establishes Factory 2M Holdings, parent company of 2M Lifts and Escalators, has partnered in India with TÜV SÜD to establish 2M Institute for lift and escalator training, including the country’s first digital industry training academy, near its manufacturing facility in Kalady. 2M is also launching a factory in the…
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Plans evolve in Detroit, Boston and L.A. Skyscraper Plans Scaled Back in Motor City In Detroit, plans for a 480-ft-tall skyscraper are on hold, and those for another, Bedrock LLC’s mixed-use tower on the former site of the J.L Hudson department store (ELEVATOR WORLD, December 2018), have been scaled back from 62 stories, the Council…
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Oracle Acquires Maryland-Based Landmark Elevator Tampa-based Oracle Elevator has acquired Landmark Elevator, the company announced in February. Landmark, a provider of service, modernization and new installation in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, is a family-owned business founded in 2001. Oracle said the acquisition will be the foundation for its northeast expansion plans as it…
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World’s Highest Residential Club Unveiled for Central Park Tower Developer Extell has unveiled renderings of Central Park Tower’s 100th-floor residential club, an amenity perched more than 1,000 ft above NYC’s Billionaires’ Row, New York YIMBY reported in January. The tower, also known as 217 West 57th Street, topped out at 1,550 ft last year (ELEVATOR…
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Committees Elect New Chairs The National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) announced the election of new chairs for its Architectural Standards Committee (ASC) and Performance Standards Committee (PSC) in February. Katie Risi of thyssenkrupp is the new chair of the ASC, and John Kleine of Otis is the new chair of the PSC. NEII thanked Ron…
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1,000-ft Glass Elevator OK’d for Aon Center Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development has approved a plan by developer 601W and architects Solomon Cordwell Buenz to add the tallest exterior glass elevator in North America to Aon Center (ELEVATOR WORLD, July 2018), Archinect reported in February. The US$185-million project, first announced in March 2019, would…
Read More by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick About 20 years ago, I was briefly stuck in an elevator in China, alone, in the dark. It was frightening, even to an elevator person. I found the emergency button and pushed it, trying to remain calm. That quickly left me when only a few Chinese words came through. I could not…
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The object of this article is to find relationship between the calculated life time of steel rope DRAKA-25DT,
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Elevator door protection company Formula Systems looks to replicate its North American success in Europe and the U.K.
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