thyssenkrupp delivers largest-ever Sweden order to new mixed-use city block, Urban Escape. That Stockholm, Sweden, is the fastest-growing city in Europe —with the equivalent of a busload of new residents added each day — is evident just looking around the horizon. In the Vasastaden District near the city center, Norra Tornen is rising to 33…
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This Readers Platform explains how the elevator contractor management software you choose today will have lasting effects on your business tomorrow.
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Properly used, software functions can eliminate effects of rollback and increase speed-control response. Many people take ride quality for granted when they use an elevator, but a smooth and responsive ride requires precise adjustment from all system components, such as the controller, variable-frequency drive (VFD) and brakes. The VFD can be a powerful adjustment tool…
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Your author describes how specialized software enhances efficiency and accuracy. This paper was presented at ELEVCON Berlin 2018, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 22, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the International Association of Elevator Engineers (www.elevcon.com). Designing non-standard projects accurately,…
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Tokyo Plan With 200-m-Tall Mixed-Use Tower Approved A plan to demolish older offices, apartments, houses and temples to make way for a 200-m-tall mixed-use tower on a 1.6-ha site close to Roppongi Station in Tokyo was approved by town planners in April, Japan Property Central reported. Nomura Real Estate, Ken Corp. and Takenaka Corp. are…
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Escalator Modernization Order for thyssenkrupp thyssenkrupp won a contract to modernize 53 escalators on Line 2 of the Lille Metro in northern France, the “successful result of a longstanding customer relationship and a meticulously prepared offer,” according to thyssenkrupp Head of Media Relations Dr. Jasmin Fischer. Public transport operator Transpole awarded the up-to-six-year contract to…
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Elite, thyssenkrupp Welcome First-of-Its- Kind Showroom Chennai-based Elite Elevators, in partnership with thyssenkrupp, inaugurated its first Home Elevator Experience Center showroom in the Prestige Meridian tower in Bengaluru, India, on May 8, the Business Standard reported. Among those present were thyssenkrupp Access Solutions Managing Director Andrew Warbrick and Vimal Babu, head of sales for Elite,…
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Hyundai Motor Group to Build South Korea’s Tallest A 105-story, 569-m-tall skyscraper that would serve as headquarters for Hyundai Motor Group in the Gangnam District of Seoul could start construction within the year, thanks to the city government speeding up the approval process, Pulse was among news outlets to report. The plan for the group’s…
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Twentytwo Office Tower Tops Out PLP Architecture’s Twentytwo, the latest high rise in the city, became the district’s tallest building when it recently topped out, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat reported on May 16. Located at 22 Bishopsgate, the 62-story office tower being codeveloped by French investment manager AXA IM-Real Assets and…
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Report: 80 New Skyscrapers Planned in Toronto Demand for housing and limited space have positioned Toronto for a spike in skyscraper construction, with 80 projects on the drawing boards, the National Post reported. Real estate company Point2 Homes produced a report that revealed the plans, which promise to double the number of tall buildings in…
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