This Readers Platform makes the case that rolling the dice on repair quality is a risky bet. It is widely acknowledged in the elevator industry that competitive pressures are squeezing service companies’ profit margins — especially on fully comprehensive contracts. The failure of a major component, such as a drive, manifests these cost pressures and…
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Latest codes allow SIL 3-rated devices to replace motor contactors. What is safety? Merriam-Webster puts it this way: “Safety is the condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury or loss.” In the elevator industry, safety concerns everyone. It is the driving force behind the code that defines how elevators are built and…
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This paper was presented at 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). by Shuhei Noda, Kentaro Yokoi, Hiroshi Sukegawa, Teh KoK Long and Sayumi Kimura We…
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Accessibility lifts are designed to be unobtrusive in historic cathedral that served as a backdrop in Harry Potter movies. Gloucester Cathedral, a magnificent architectural icon dating back to 1089, took more than 500 years to complete, and is an excellent example of an English cathedral built in the Romanesque and Gothic styles. The cathedral, sitting…
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New, carefully applied technology blends with the 1930s aesthetics of a Helsinki heritage building A one-of-a-kind building opened in the heart of Helsinki in 1936. Dubbed “Lasipalatsi,” Finnish for “glass palace,” the clean, minimalist structure in the Streamline Moderne style has hosted restaurants, exhibition halls and offices.[1] It has included the 550-seat Bio Rex, a…
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Your author tours Delaware Elevator, visits a restored distillery and gets to know Salisbury, Maryland. Two months ago, David Smarte called about a National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) Education Committee meeting in Salisbury, Maryland, at Delaware Elevator, Inc., where he works as safety manager. All I knew about Salisbury was Delta couldn’t take me…
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Improvements in traffic performance and user interfaces are shown in a case study on PNB 118, a 118-story building under construction in Kuala Lumpur. Introduction and Credits This article is based on an unpublished paper, “Intent of Specifications for Harmonized Dispatching — Groups of Passenger Elevators/Lifts for Office Buildings” by Barker Mohandas, LLC, and our…
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John Antona, longtime ELEVATOR WORLD contributor and member of its Technical Advisory Committee, recently reconnected with his native Africa and made a “new, old friend” — EW Africa Correspondent Shem Oirere, who is based in Nairobi, Kenya. Antona, who retired in 2017 after a more-than-40-year career in the elevator industry, tells EW one of the…
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Improvements in space savings, residential installation, monitoring and metering join a new steel-belt-cable MRL system. MRL Elevator for Low- to Mid-Rise Buildings thyssenkrupp has launched evolution 200, a cost-effective machine-room-less (MRL) elevator for buildings up to 350 ft. tall, in the U.S. and Canada markets. evolution 200 has up to 5000 lb. capacity and 600…
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Oman-Headquartered VT Manufacturer Opening New Branches National Quality Art Co. for Elevators and Escalators, which in 2013 established the first elevator/escalator factory in Oman, is growing, with its third branch opening in Muscat in July and one to come soon in Dhofar, Oman, the Times of Oman reported. Numerous businessmen and government representatives attended the…
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