64-Story Residential Tower Forges Ahead Brickell Flatiron, a 64-story residential tower, is forging ahead at 1001 South Miami Avenue, with a foundation pour having taken place in January, SkyRise Cities reported. Involving approximately 700 workers, 150 concrete trucks and 50 million lb. of concrete, the event marked a milestone for the latest Miami project with…
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Construction began on Bulfinch Crossing, a 2.9-million-sq.-ft. mixed-use project in Boston, in January. Commercial Property Executive reported that developers National Real Estate Advisors LLC and The HYM Investment Group LLC joined local leaders to celebrate commencement of the US$1.5-billion undertaking, beginning to transform two full city blocks downtown. Designed by Pelli Clark Pelli and CBT…
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Revamped Tower Will Still Be Tallest in LIC Court Square City View Tower at 23-15 44th Drive in Long Island City (LIC) (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2016) has been redesigned and shortened from 79 to 66 stories, but it will still be the tallest structure in LIC, CityRealty reported. Being developed by Chris Jiashu Xu and…
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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…
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