Developer Oliver Tyrone Pulver envisions a 38-story office tower designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) on what is now a parking lot a stone’s throw away from City Hall, SkyRise Cities reported. If all goes as planned, the 840,000-sq.-ft. glassy structure will be delivered in 2020. At the corner of 13th and Market streets…
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Biggest Construction Boom Since 1920s Underway Metropolis, a megaproject with four towers; Wilshire Grand (the West Coast’s tallest building) and Circa, a pair of 35-story luxury apartment towers: all are part of the largest construction boom downtown Los Angeles has seen since the 1920s, when 155 projects of at least 50,000 sq. ft. were completed,…
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Industry executives are very upbeat about the coming year. Some of the optimism could be the “Trump Bump,” since the new president has promised to cut regulations and increase infrastructure spending; or, it could be a continuation of the growth seen in 2016 spilling into the new year. With that in mind, ELEVATOR WORLD takes…
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Singapore-based consortium says innovation will be a game changer. The world’s first composite[1] lift, 8, was unveiled on January 11 by Singapore Lift Co. (SLC), a joint venture between Far East Organization, Woh Hup Pvt. Ltd. and Pronus (HK) Ltd. Made of lightweight composite materials used in place of steel in industries such as aerospace,…
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Peng Jie (PJ), ELEVATOR WORLD’s longtime China correspondent and friend, has worked for Schindler and KONE. With factories in Beijing and Shanghai, Schindler was the first major elevator OEM to enter the Chinese market. Over the course of his career, Peng Jie oversaw the modernization of an old factory to manufacture cars and door drives…
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Over the approximate century since Frederick “Fred” Hymans developed the theory of rope traction in 1920, there have been a few minor challenges to a couple of the assumptions posited by Hymans — specifically, the hoist rope maintaining its cylindrical shape and the radial compressibility of the rope cross-section as wires cross each other and…
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A busy year is reported on, and schedules are announced. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) held its annual Clearwater Beach, Florida, Code Week on January 9-12. As usual, the Sheraton Sand Key Resort hosted many elevator professionals, both members of the society and guests to the proceedings. ASME A17 Standards Committee and associated…
Read More Hemant Jolly (HJ), managing director of Otis, U.K., talks about why he is upbeat about the market. EW: Which features distinguish the London and U.K. markets? HJ: When it comes to new construction, London and the U.K. are high-end markets. There is a lot of focus on quality and high-end features and aesthetics. That clearly…
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Dynamic year saw numerous firsts for the elevator industry and bold predictions for it. The year 1967 was one of firsts, as well as a time in which the social, cultural and political events of the previous years continued to play out, often in dramatic fashion. The year in sports witnessed Super Bowl I, in…
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An overview of associated technology in China, the world’s biggest escalator manufacturing location, and Chinese manufacturer CST by Wang Qibing, Leng Yonggang and Lee Yu Along with the rapid development of China’s economy and the vigorous promotion of urbanization, the development of escalator manufacturing keeps growing at double digits. According to data released by the…
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