Schindler gathered a group of the country’s building-industry professionals to punctuate the launch of its new product there. The presentation of Schindler’s Personal Occupant Requirement Terminal (PORT) technology in Argentina reunited approximately 60 local building-industry professionals. The event took place on April 25 at the Hotel Intercontinental located in Nordelta, a conspicuous building development in…
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This five-stop system provides accessibility to nearly 30 m of hillside in the city. The Carmel district is a neighborhood area in Barcelona developed mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. During this time, many people built homes along the rural hillside, which has presented accessibility challenges over the years. ThyssenKrupp Elevator Southern Europe, Africa and…
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Elevating Calgary to Another Level Several design features make the 1.7-million-sq.-ft. building unique in North America. The Bow in Calgary is a modern office tower with a strong eco-friendly presence. Several design features make the 1.7-million-sq.-ft. building, which officially opened in early June, unique in North America. Not the least of these is its advanced…
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Not even the CECA Convention in Niagara Falls, Canada (p. 104), was spared the hampering of vertical transporta-tion due to a labor strike during the event. While this escalator was considered the “down” one (in two ways), only one of the two nearby elevators was functional. As of press time, the strike had broken (p.…
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Carlo Gavazzi Inc. has released DMPU, a new modular motor protection system. This evolution of its current-, voltage- and phase-monitoring devices is intended to complement the company’s other motor-control products but can be used with other manufacturers’ motor products. It also monitors harmonic distortion, power, energy, temperatures and earth-leakage current. The product implements several American…
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Asia In fiscal year 2011/2012, ThyssenKrupp AG generated sales of about EUR4.3 billion (US$5.72 billion) in the Asia Pacific region, representing almost 12% of its total sales. Within the region, China and India are the most important markets, with the corporation generating sales of EUR2.7 billion (US$ 3.59 billion) in these countries, or 63% of…
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Adams Elevator Equipment Co. has opened a 67,000-sq.-ft. parts-distribution center in Maumee, Ohio. This modern warehouse facility, implements updated warehouse- and transportation-management processes. An inventory encompassing 40,000 part numbers is being relocated from Niles, Illinois, to the new facility for its scheduled October opening. When the inventory transition is complete, the parts-distribution center will carry…
Read More I’ve always been fascinated by the ease with which people who use American Sign Language (ASL) are able to communicate with each other across fairly long distances and in noisy environments. This becomes more evident when I see ASL being used in subway cars when traveling on the New York City subway system. While the…
Read More by Mark Abbott and John Pierce People always ask us, “You put phones in elevators?” We typically answer “Yes,” fully anticipating the next question to be, “Really, doesn’t everyone have a cell phone these days?” Yes, there are more cell phones than people in North America. Despite this statistic, the elevator industry has actually gone…
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This article outlines the types and uses of fiber optics for elevators and explains financial and technical benefits, as well as the perceived and actual installation challenges. The need for communications in elevators has evolved beyond the need to tell the machine room to which floor to travel. High-definition security video, phones, control signals and…
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