The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation helps North America celebrate a weeklong promotion of vertical-transportation user safety. The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) celebrated the most recent National Elevator Escalator Safety Awareness Week on November 11-17, 2012, in the U.S. and Canada. Safety Week provides a focal point for the industry, on local and national levels,…
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The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) event featured pertinent presentations and tabletop exhibits. On November 13, 2012, a full house of lift professionals attended the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Lifts Group Annual Seminar held at the CIBSE Conference Centre in London. The strong attendance showed that interest in the activities…
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The 634-m-tall broadcast tower is equipped with several high-speed, high-capacity elevators. by M.J. Mohamed Iqbal, EW Correspondent, and Mitsuya Amano Tokyo Sky Tree is the tallest structure in Japan and among the tallest in the world, topping out at 634 m. Led by Tobu Railway and a group of six terrestrial broadcasters headed by NHK…
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This photo is from Sean Foran, president of Certified Elevator and Escalator Products, Inc. Foran sent it to us on November 13 to show us the effects Hurricane Sandy had on the company’s Long Island, New York, premises. As of press time, however, immediate recovery from the storm had already taken place, and long-term projects…
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The Elevator Emergency Light Store has introduced its universal elevator emergency light kit. It includes five different stud mounting configurations and can be installed on all car- operating panels. Operating with a 6- or 12-V alarm and offering a separate test-switch connection, the six white LEDs last more than 8 hr., in case of power…
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China On November 23, 2012, the Ninth Jingrui Science & Technology Prize 2012 Award Ceremony was held at the Renaissance Beijing Capital Hotel. Among commendation recipients was Yungtay Elevator, awarded the “green low-carbon technology product prize” and “humanized intelligent innovation prize” for its focus on innovation and provision of quality elevator products and service. In…
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Schindler has received a major service contract with Simon Property Group, one of the world’s largest real-estate companies. The contract will include the maintenance of more than 750 elevators and escalators in 81 shopping malls and two office buildings throughout the U.S. Schindler will also provide modernization and repair work, including escalator replacements. “We have…
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In November 2012, the European Commission predicted that throughout 2013, the recession in Europe would grow deeper than previously anticipated due to a 20% decrease in public-sector construction projects and continuing weakness in the European commercial sectors. However, the commission also stated it anticipated some opportunities for real-estate investors in prime residential markets in Germany…
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The first motors operated on DC. In fact, the invention of a practical DC motor long preceded Nikola Tesla’s insight that AC would offer substantial benefits. Thomas Edison and his associates clung to the idea that DC was more practical, but history favored Tesla and George Westinghouse, at least in regard to the war of…
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This paper was presented at Elevcon USA 2012, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 19, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with permission from the International Association of Elevator Engineers IAEE. This paper is an exact reprint and has not been edited by ELEVATOR…
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