The winners of our nine categories of the 2016 ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year contest literally span the globe – from North America to Europe, from Wales to Hong Kong and on to the Middle East. Every year in August, we anticipate the submissions’ arrivals as they come flying into the office in every…
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A Systematic Methodology for the Generation of Lift Passengers under a Poisson Batch Arrival Process
by Dr. Richard Peters, Dr. Lutfi Al-Sharif, Ahmad T. Hammoudeh, Eslam Alniemi and Ahmad Salman This paper was first presented at the Fifth Symposium on Lift & Escalator Technologies, www.liftsymposium.org. It is generally accepted that passenger arrivals for lift service follow a Poisson arrival process. Moreover, recent research has also shown that the arrivals take…
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Your authors establish traffic-design principles and describe dispatching and modeling strategies related to future systems.
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NAESA, Wisconsin host informative, lively two-day event. NAESA International joined forces with the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services for the fourth time to host the Wisconsin Elevator Symposium on October 22-23, 2015. Once again the number of inspectors, vendors and guest speakers exceeded 200 at the Grand Geneva Resort & Spa in Lake…
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While this 19th-century inventor had a unique contribution to elevator history, the story has been corrupted over the decades. In October 2015, ELEVATOR WORLD received an email suggesting that the magazine acknowledge Alexander Miles’ contributions to the elevator industry. The topic came about from a posting on the Grio, dated October 11, 2015, which proclaimed,…
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Highgate House Hotel proves an elegant and ideal setting to present chapters and discuss latest edition. The fifth edition of the Chartered Institute of Building Engineers (CIBSE) Guide D, Transportation Systems in Buildings, was formally launched on September 22 at Highgate House Hotel in Northampton, U.K. The venue was also the setting for the annual…
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In its largest iteration to date, the biennial international trade fair introduces the CUBE, prepares Europe and beyond for new lift standards, and highlights new products and innovations in charming Augsburg, Germany. The picturesque town of Augsburg, Germany, was awash with elevator-industry professionals from around the world the week of October 13, 2015, all gathered…
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ThyssenKrupp Elevadores embraces an underground challenge. Valencia, Spain submitted by Begoña Flores Canseco, thyssenkrupp elevator La Muela II Hydroelectric Power Plant lies on the right bank of the Júcar River in Cortes de Pallás, Valencia, Spain. It serves as the largest pumped-storage hydroelectric power plant in Europe and the most important use of hydroelectric power…
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UT Elevator applies new technology to create a working piece of art. Vancouver, Canada submitted by Karen Virk and John Virk, P.Eng., UT Elevator Inc. An ambitious home-design team envisioned an all-glass elevator that would provide an uninterrupted vista from the cab for a new home under construction in prestigious West Vancouver, Canada. This vision…
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Team reunites after nearly 20 years to help revitalize storied entertainment venue. New York, New York submitted by Doug Boydston, Handi-Lift, Inc. An unusual project for us this year was replacing a custom lift we had installed in 1997 with a new and improved design in 2015. Almost 20 years after the original job, we…
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