“Dancing” Copper Towers Open The first tenants have moved in to the American Copper buildings (ELEVATOR WORLD, July 2016), a pair of what are being described as boldly unconventional, copper-clad 41- and 48-story structures on the Manhattan, New York City (NYC) waterfront, various news outlets, including dezeen, reported. Designed by SHoP Architects and developed by…
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66-Story Hotel/Condo Proposed Downtown A project has been submitted to the Los Angeles Planning Department for a 66-story building containing approximately 200 condominiums, 220 hotel rooms, 94,000 sq. ft. of commercial space and a parking garage with more than 600 spaces. Designed by CallisonRTKL with MJS Landscape Architects, the structure would take shape north of…
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Columbia Promotes Employees to Director, Controller Columbia Elevator Products Co., Inc. has advanced Dione Birdsall to the position of director of customer operations. Columbia states, “Since beginning in 1985 as an estimator, her extensive experience has been key to the development” of its online quotation system and expansion of its customer service model. Birdsall is…
Read More Residential High Rise Plans Exemplify Growing Dallas Chicago-based Amli Residential has purchased vacant property to construct Dallas’ first downtown tower in seven years, according to The Dallas Morning News. The source said the residential high rise on Field Street would be the tallest downtown building since construction began on the 42-story Museum Tower condominium building…
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An innovation debuts, an honor is bestowed, and a baseball stadium gets a lift. KONE Follows Through With U.S. JumpLift Debut KONE has begun to utilize its JumpLift self-climbing elevator as it constructs two of the elevators in Seattle, where it is fulfilling its contract to supply the 45-story Hyatt Regency Seattle Convention Center Hotel…
Read More Nearly 20 years ago, a group sprang up in the industry that supervised elevator work at universities. It was a small group that felt it didn’t quite fit into any other association. At first, they were called the Big 10 Plus Friends and then VTCCU (Vertical Transportation Conference for Colleges and Universities) and, finally, the…
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Toshiba executive talks big projects from Abu Dhabi to Riyadh. ELEVATOR WORLD had the opportunity to speak with M.J. Mohamed Iqbal (MI), its longtime correspondent and Middle East managing director and CEO of Toshiba Elevator, about projects in, and the future for, the region. EW: How is business for Toshiba Elevator Middle East in the…
Read More The consulting engineer was a prolific author and noted amateur historian. In addition to his work as a consulting engineer (ELEVATOR WORLD, April and May 2017), Reginald Bolton pursued two other careers: he was a prolific and well-known author of technical books and articles, and he was an equally well-known amateur historian and archaeologist. (His…
Read More A forward-thinking follow-up to the 1997 EW article, which explored half the speed by Rick Barker with contributions from Sean Morris and George Wisner At a time when elevators were reaching 12.5 and 14 mps in Japan, an executive from Turner posed the question at a conference in 1995, “Is 2,000 Feet Per Minute Enough”?[1]…
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Inspection service finds the complexities of working on UC Berkeley campus provides a learning experience. The campus environment presents a challenging situation for elevator service and inspection companies. With numerous activities (such as high-profile sports events and political speeches and gatherings), security requirements, access issues, parking, 24-hr. operation and a mix of building types (residence…
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