Jersey City’s 99 Hudson Rising Rapidly Jersey City’s 99 Hudson Street, a residential tower that will soon be the city’s tallest building (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2016, February 2015 and July 2014), is rising rapidly, with façade installation now underway, New York YIMBY says. The 79-story, 900-ft.-tall tower, which broke ground in January 2016, will house…
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90-Story Mixed-Use Tower Would Be Denver’s Tallest New York City’s Greenwich Realty Capital intends to build a mixed-use tower of up to 90 stories and 1,000 ft. tall in Denver’s central business district (CBD), The Denver Post reported. Located at 650 17th Street, Six Fifty 17 would house condominiums, a hotel, retail and parking within…
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Rinehart Promoted at Canton Elevator Greg Rinehart has been promoted from vice president of Operations to general manager at Canton Elevator, Inc., overseeing all operations based out of Canton, Ohio. Rinehart has been with Canton since 2004, starting as Architectural Products Operations manager before being promoted to vice president of Operations following Nidec Motor Corp.’s…
Read More Last month, we alluded to the changing climate and hurricanes’ effects on our industry’s fall events. This month, we lead with the feature A Change of Plans by Lee Freeland. It relates how Hurricane Irma chased the convention of the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) up the eastern seaboard from Orlando, Florida, to Atlantic…
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Elevator Observation — a neutral, China-based performance assessment for elevator and escalator manufacturers in the global market — published the following commentary in September. . . . Editor translated by Peng Jie, EW Correspondent In spite of the impact from fluctuations in the global economy and building industry, along with changes and adjustments in the…
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Finding and assembling a model from 1916 is a mission that evokes a range of emotions. The genesis for this article was the discovery, approximately two years ago, of a 1920 advertisement for Meccano toys. While many European readers will be familiar with the world of Meccano, most American readers are most likely unaware of…
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Participants have a positive experience at this year’s NAESA gathering. It is not often that two industry events in the U.S. occur within the same week, but when Hurricane Irma began making its way toward the Southeastern coast, there was no choice. The National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) Annual Convention & Exposition (p.54), originally…
Read More Remote monitoring revisited: new developments in an old concept by Rob Wurth and Rich Madarasz To those of us who have been in the elevator industry more than a few years, the words “remote monitoring” likely conjure up any number of things, including questions, concerns, intrigue and, perhaps, skepticism. While the concept of remote monitoring…
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Hitachi innovations improve response to problems and offer customers offsite access to displays and other functions. This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in the IAEE book Elevator Technology 21, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the International Association of…
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Company’s remote monitoring, IoT solutions enter the vertical-transportation industry. Many manufacturers offer a remote-monitoring option, which includes real-time system information such as car position, status, fault logs and more. This should come as no surprise, given the maturation of the internet, availability of cheap server space and an increasing number of networked devices. Slowly, elevators…
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