Columbia Appoints Three Senior Executives Columbia Elevator Products Co. Inc. has named three new senior executives. Jim Yates has been appointed chief administrative officer, after serving Columbia as president and in various other capacities. Yates joined the company in 2008, bringing 30 years of finance and operations experience in a manufacturing environment, and understanding of…
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“Be nice to the robots, for they will rule the world one day.” — Thehive.com There seems to be a real concern by some that, by the end of this century, 75% of all Americans will be out of a job and servile to robots. That may be too far away for your editor to…
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Kevin Morse says Elevator U’s mission statement struck a chord. Elevator Program Manager for Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Kevin Morse (KM) began his career in the industry in the mid-1970s as an elevator constructor and mechanic with the International Union of Elevator Constructors (IUEC) Local 10 in Washington, D.C., but, in 1989, the U.S.…
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Seventh International Seminar on Elevators and Escalators focuses on closing the gap between the academic and business communities. The seventh International Seminar on Elevators and Escalators brought together academics, industrialists and members of Iran’s elevator and escalator industry on February 16 at the Koosha Center of Applied Science and Technology in Tehran. Among those in…
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An examination of possibly the first publication of a complete passenger elevator system The January and February 2017 issues of ELEVATOR WORLD included a two-part article titled “An Innovative Elevator System,” which addressed an early Otis elevator depicted in what is believed to be the first U.S. publication of a set of drawings illustrating a…
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Moscow event had strong international flavor, as 19 countries were represented in vendor lineup. Russian Elevator Week 2017, held on April 25-27 in Moscow, proved to be a big draw for the international building-transportation industry, as 179 companies put their equipment and services on display at the VDNH Exhibition Center Pavilion 75. More than 5,400…
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Children “look” with their hands, when doors may open suddenly. In recent years, Liftinstituut received accident reports of children getting trapped in glass lift doors as their little hands were dragged along by the slip-resistant glass. The number of accidents reported to Liftinstituut is not indicative of reality, in which the figure is much higher.…
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Annual consultants’ meeting offers education, booths and networking. This year’s International Association of Elevator Consultants’ (IAEC) Forum was held April 25-28 at the Doubletree Hotel in downtown New Orleans, a city guaranteed to provide good times, good food and, of course, good jazz. The 24th conference promised quality educational presentations and valuable connections among the…
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KPF looks at the bigger picture in its forward-thinking building designs. The Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) design firm is more than 40 years old and based in New York City with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and London, and a site office in Abu Dhabi. Our Hong Kong office is young for us, opened…
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GAL and H-W host interactive activities in Quincy, Illinois. A meeting of 25 elevator consultants was held on May 8-10 in Quincy, Illinois. Many knowledgeable employees from GAL Manufacturing Corp. and Hollister-Whitney Elevator Corp. (H-W) presented exciting information about new products, followed by a factory tour. The festivities opened with a welcome on Monday, May…
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