KONE to Equip New International Airport KONE announced in April it has won an order to deliver 216 elevators to the Tianfu International Airport in Chengdu. The airport, in the capital of Sichuan province, will handle a projected 40 million passengers and 700,000 mT of cargo per year, the OEM said in the announcement. KONE…
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IGV Names CEO/General Manager Michele Suria has been named Milan, Italy-based IGV Group SpA’s CEO and general manager. Citing “extensive experience in management consulting and general management of small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs),” Suria said his most recent position was chief financial officer at Implanta SpA. Prior to that, he was CFO and chief…
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Las Vegas’ Tallest Building to be Reborn as The Drew A 735-ft.-tall, 63-story building overlooking the Las Vegas Strip that sat uncompleted since the financial crisis of 2008 is getting a new lease on life as The Drew from developer and property owner The Witkoff Group, SkyRise Cities was among news outlets to report. Witkoff…
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Florida, Georgia and Tennessee see activity. “Skyline-Defining” Project Rising in Nashville Nashville, Tennessee, is poised to get another “skyline-defining” project, consisting of a 40-story and slightly shorter tower at 151 First Avenue in the South of Broadway neighborhood, designed by Chicago-based Solomon Cordwell Buenz (ELEVATOR WORLD, June 2016), the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban…
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Proposed Lower Manhattan Jail Tower Sparks Heated Debate A proposed 45-story jail tower at 125 White Street in Lower Manhattan sparked heated debate during public hearings in the spring, with Tribeca, Chinatown and Soho residents raising concerns including cost, shadows cast by the structure and a loss of history, The Architect’s Newspaper reported. Part of…
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Schindler Names Virdi CFO, U.S. Operations Schindler Elevator Corp. has named Sneh Virdi chief financial officer, U.S. operations, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey. In this role, she will lead the company’s finance department, drive growth strategy and “guide the company through long-range planning to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities.” Virdi was most recently…
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“We chose Urban Escape because it fits with Microsoft’s vision of the intelligent workplace, where people, technology and the environment are in symbiosis.” — Joacim Damgard, Microsoft Sweden Our cover this month is from the feature A Remarkable Milestone in Stockholm by Kaija Wilkinson. Urban Escape is a vertical “city within a city” and the…
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ELEVATOR WORLD China Correspondent Peng Jie took these pictures on a rainy day near the riverside of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal in Suzhou, China. The door measures roughly 5 m wide and 4 m high with three panels to each side. The giant cabin can hold 400 people or a 30-mT load. The elevator’s power comes…
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Lubricator, access system and control unit launched. Escalator Lubrication by the Jug Castrol’s new 5-l LubeCon escalator lubrication system was designed for the tight confines of most escalators and can be mounted in the pit, machine room, balustrade or even remotely to provide necessary lubrication without having to take the escalator out of service. The…
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Thyssenkrupp escalators improve beach access at Canary Islands resort area. The municipal government of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, seeking to bridge a gap on the city’s seafront promenade, Paseo de Las Canteras — a broad, paved walkway along Playa de las Canteras (Las Canteras Beach) — turned to thyssenkrupp Elevadores, SLU, to install four…
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