Stuffing 2,500 lb. of elevator into a 1,500-lb. shaft In today’s elevator-industry vernacular, the term “modernization” can be taken a number of ways. Immediately apparent to the eye – and relatively easy on the budget – is an upgrade of cab and entrance aesthetics, which, for property owners, delivers a number of positives. Compelling new…
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Gets Renovation of Four Elevators Elevators are intimate spaces – microcosms of the high-rises that they make possible. With so many trades coming together in such close quarters, it is evident with elevators, more so than with any other space, whether a collaboration has been a success or a failure. Our four elevators are at…
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This paper was presented at Paris 2014, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 20, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the International Association of Elevator Engineers (website: www.elevcon.com). This paper is an exact reprint and has not been edited by ELEVATOR…
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Metro Elevator partners with Susan G. Komen to help find a cure for breast cancer. It was an innocent enough idea at the time. “I wonder what would happen if we painted them pink and turned them into goodwill ambassadors,” Metro Elevator’s executive vice president, Roger Brummett, thought out loud as he watched Metro’s paint…
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Continued examination of a 1913 elevator catalog explains the technical operation of controllers, accessories and safeties, and sheds new light on the role of the elevator operator. In 1913, Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Co. of Milwaukee produced an extensive catalog of its products that provides a unique glimpse into the world of early electric elevators and controllers.…
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A testing system that uses an advanced single-chip microcontroller that can produce simulated overspeed and low-speed signals to test escalator or moving-walk protection by Junhua Shen, Yihui Ruan, Rongfeng Lu and Jihnhua Ye With the development of the economy and social progress in China, elevators, escalators and moving walks have become more and more important…
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World’s largest elevator buffer just the latest in innovations from British company Oleo International, a company specialising in crash energy management systems, designs, manufactures and supplies products across multiple sectors worldwide, focusing on the elevator, railway and industrial markets. The firm employs 265 worldwide, with 220 based in Coventry, U.K. With other operations in China,…
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Supertalls are redefining the 57th Street skyline. New York City (NYC) is undergoing a skyscraper boom the likes of which it has never seen before, and the number of towers taller than 1,000 ft. is increasing every year. But changes at the very top will be, by far, the most dramatic. Well over a dozen…
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Elevator modernization by Centennial, MCE, Magnetek helps transform historic office tower. A classic 26-story office building at 285 Madison Avenue in New York City (NYC) underwent a renovation from a 1929 design to a contemporary office space with a distinctive entry, strong building identity and new elevators featuring Magnetek, Inc.’s Quattro® AC drives. This is the…
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Your authors, from NYC-based TEI Group, address the need for an industrywide set of safety standards. by Ray Downs and Robert Pitney, TEI Group In an industry with such a high possibility of physical harm to our workforce, why is it taking so long for us to realize the critical need to define, design, develop,…
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