KONE Providing 38 Units for San Francisco Venue Expansion KONE is providing 12 elevators and 26 escalators for the expansion of the Moscone Center, a convention center in San Francisco that hosts up to 1.1 million visitors annually. The order consists of seven MonoSpace®, two EcoSystem MR®, two freight and one EcoSpace® elevator, and 26…
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Supertall Residential Tower in the Financial District Plans for a 91-story, 275-unit supertall residential tower at 125 Greenwich Street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City (NYC), are moving forward. Developers have secured US$175 million in financing and started foundation work on the tower, designed by Rafael Viñoly and featuring landscaped cutaways and…
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ATIS Continues Trend Started in 2015 ATIS Elevator Inspections, a subsidiary of American Testing & Inspection Services in St. Louis, has acquired CNY Elevator Inspections, which covers central New York State. It marks the sixth acquisition for ATIS since 2015 (ELEVATOR WORLD, July 2015). CNY has been led by Keith Robison and Jim Cosbey since…
Read More Eklund’s Hires Representatives, Project Manager Eklund’s has hired Geoff Connus and Mack Pence as business development representatives, and Matt Garner as project manager. Based in Chicago, Connus will cover the Midwest. Connus most recently worked in sales and project management for a Chicago-based elevator cab company and has 14 years’ experience in the construction industry.…
Read More Our cover this month has a certain “wow factor.” The Jeddah Tower is just in the initial stages of construction and won’t be completed until 2018. But, when it is, according to vertical-transportation equipment designer for the project and author of this article James W. Fortune, the tallest building in the world will have “the…
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Outlining the rationale and steps for mandatory daily startup procedures Injuries occur about 15 times more frequently on escalators than elevators. About 10,000 escalator-related injuries per year result in emergency-room treatment in the U.S. Most of these accidents can be avoided if safety issues are addressed. People who use escalators generally do not recognize the…
Read More This audiovisual resource serves as a good orientation to lift safety. “Working safely is a way of life!” With that perspective, the Service Safety in the Elevator Industry DVD seeks to orient new maintenance technicians to best practices on the job. Safety guidelines are demonstrated in this 32-min. video featuring a technician working on equipment…
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Texas family has been in the elevator industry for five generations and is working on a sixth. Five generations of the Harrison family have worked in the elevator industry with some version of the same company where their forefather was one of the first employees, the Hunter-Hayes division of Dover Elevator, which began in turn-of-the-century…
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Bob Shepherd speaks on long history in the industry, bold initiatives as leader of NAESA and what motivates him. ELEVATOR WORLD had the pleasure of speaking with longtime elevator man Robert “Bob” Shepherd (RS). Shepherd is the new executive director of NAESA International (EW, February 2016) and was gracious enough to speak not only about…
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Wire elevator ropes in the 19th century and their maturation in the early 20th century are examined. The humble hoisting rope occupies a unique place in the history of vertical transportation. A simple hemp rope lies at the center of one of the best-known elevator stories — Elisha Graves Otis’ demonstration of his Improved Safety…
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