In November, KONE embarked on phase two of a project at the Navy Federal Credit Union campus in Pensacola, Florida, which entails installation of 31 new elevators. The order includes machine-room-less EcoSpace, MonoSpace® and MonoSpace 700 units. Navy Federal is the largest credit union in the world. Bob Parkhurst, assistant president of Facilities Management for…
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Mitsubishi Electric Riding High on L.A. Activity The construction boom in Los Angeles is resulting in significant work for vertical-transportation companies, including the Cypress, California-based division of Mitsubishi Electric, which recently installed or will install nearly 100 units in various projects downtown. Recently won contracts in the South Park area include the US$1-billion Oceanwide Plaza…
Read More A volunteer safety initiative has been created by the Associated General Contractors of Virginia and Virginia’s Occupational Safety and Health (VOSH) program, The Hampton Roads Business Journal recently reported. The BEST program, which stands for “Building Excellence in Safety, Health and Training,” is intended to persuade and identify contractor association members that use safety and…
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Construction began on the Lumen at Tysons, a mixed- use 32-story apartment building adjacent to the Greensboro Metro station in Tysons Corner just outside Washington, D.C., in November 2016. In addition to the apartments, the development will have more than 11,000 sq. ft. of ground-floor retail space, The Washington Post reported. It will have 398…
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TEI Group employee Michael Kooken was presented with a plaque by Starwood Hotels — the Westin for“exemplifying our brand standards through engineering work at our premier Times Square location” in New York City(NYC). TEI Group President Mark Gregorio commended Kooken, observing: “This is the work ethic we had when we started the company and what…
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If built, the 80-story River Beech Tower in Chicago would be the tallest wooden skyscraper in the world, Architecture News reports. Designed by Perkins + Will and conceived by engineering studio Thornton Tomasetti and a team from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., it boasts a diagonal-grid frame that gives it strength and allows…
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Changes at Magnetek Elevator Drives The staff of Magnetek Elevator Drives in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, has seen changes, which were announced in November 2016. Joanne Carr, who served as Repairs supervisor, has moved to the company’s Material Handling group and is being replaced in the former role by Christine Groth, an experienced, longtime Magnetek associate.…
Read More Invention has often been consigned to filling a great need, the combination of desperation and perspiration. I like to think of invention, instead, as that creative spark that comes from what George Strakosch called “blue-skying” — not just filling a need, but a brilliant leap that takes us into the future. This month we join…
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The story of East Africa Elevators Co. Ltd. (EAECL), one of the largest in the region’s lift market, mirrors not only the growth of the industry in East Africa, but also that of the key drivers behind that growth. EAECL was founded in 1964 when the key markets of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania were newly…
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Fourth international lift exhibition considered “immense success.” Nearly 2,000 attended the EURO-LIFT in Kielce, Poland, on October 18-20, 2016. For the first time, the event accompanied the Property Maintenance and Services Exhibition LOKUM EXPO. Panoramic lifts that married modern design and cutting-edge technologies, and energy-efficient solar elevators were the highlights of the tradeshow. The conferences…
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