Other tall buildings proposed/underway in big cities around the nation. Redevelopment of L.A. Times Complex Plans for redevelopment of the L.A. Times headquarters in downtown Los Angeles includes building multiple towers, The Architect’s Newspaper reported. The plan includes 37- and 53-story residential towers designed by L.A.-based AC Martin and developed by Canadian company Omni Group.…
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Dueling Plans for Replacing Chicago’s Thompson Center There are dueling plans in Chicago to replace the state-owned, Helmut Jahn-designed James R. Thompson Center at the Loop, one of which involves preserving the center and adding a 1,340-ft.-tall residential/hotel tower, and the other involving demolishing it to make way for a 1,700-ft.-tall mixed-use building designed by…
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ECS Hires Two Key Managers ECS Corp., headquartered in Broadview, Illinois, has hired Tony DiLegge as Operations manager and Cathy Hayat as Marketing manager. DiLegge joins ECS with experience including working for Adams Elevator Equipment Co., most recently as senior support specialist. He then served as district buyer for thyssenkrupp, before being transferred to a…
Read More “Energy conservation is reducing or going without a service to save energy. For example: turning off a light. Energy efficiency means using less energy to provide the same service.” — U.S. Department of Energy Our focus this month is on Energy Efficiency in the elevator industry. We had a remarkable number of articles come in…
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Family-run company’s decades-long journey leads it to franchise. After more than three decades in the elevator industry and 10 years of owning their own company, brothers Jim and Randy McGinnis feel now is the time to franchise their Arvada, Colorado-based company, PEAK ElevatorTM. “Our desire was to afford elevator professionals the ability to own their…
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An examination of the early life of the influential inventor, consulting engineer and author Reginald Pelham Bolton was born in 1856 in Kilburn, U.K. His father, the Rev. James Jay Bolton, was an Episcopalian Minister educated in the U.S. and U.K. (James’ father was the Rev. Robert Bolton of Pelham Priory, New York). Following graduation…
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Savings can be achieved by utilizing certain systems. The aim of this report is to quantify and detail the improvements achieved when a lift’s drive-control equipment has been upgraded. In this study, we paid special attention to the elements deemed to have a higher impact on energy consumption, namely the drive controller, hoist motor and…
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by Koos van Lindenberg Since Liftinstituut carried out its first energy measurement on lifts in 2009, the standards based on how these measurements are performed have been developed further and further, with ISO 25745 increasingly taking over the role of VDI 4707-1. Clients increasingly impose demands on the energy consumption of lifts. They want the…
Read More New technologies promise a new standard of escalator efficiency, energy savings, safety and comfort. by Christian-Erik Thoeny and Ruan WeiMin This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 21, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the…
Read More An examination of energy storage technologies, converters and more to achieve a higher lift energy classification This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 21, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the International Association of Elevator…
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