by Ersan Barlas, C. Erdem Imrak, Eren Kayaoglu, Adem Candas and Yusuf Z. Kocabal Abstract Asansör (which means elevator in Turkish) is a 1907 built building in Izmir’s Karatas quarter, within the boundaries of the metropolitan district of Konak. The old Asansör quarter, filled with old restored houses is also known as the Jewish quarter…
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by Yihui Ruan, Yucheng Qin, Baosheng Tang, Liang Ye, Haiten Liang, Zhe Cheng, Bin Zhao and Hua Pei The overspeed governor is one of the most important safety components of an elevator system. The tripping speed of the elevator overspeed governor is one of its most important parameters. It includes both electrical and mechanical tripping…
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The infrastructure that supports modern communications systems (TV, telephone and radio) has changed dramatically over the past 25 years. Television antennae have vanished from rooftops, satellites and satellite dishes have replaced massive broadcast towers, and the newest incursions on the landscape – cell-phone towers – lack any pretense of engineering or aesthetic quality. The latter…
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Editor’s Note:We committed to follow up on the report “Japan in the Aftermath: How the Industry Handled ‘The Great Quake’ – The State of Elevator and Escalator Restoration” (ELEVATOR WORLD, October 2011) after the next update was published by Elevator Kai, the Japan Elevator Association’s (JEA) quarterly magazine. Elevator Kai’s January 2012 issue featured an…
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The day after the China Elevator Association Annual Meeting on Design and Manufacturing, held in Zhangjiagang, China, in November 2012, your author conversed with one of the Chinese elevator industry’s authorized specialists in Suzhou. Here, Robin Zhu invited ELEVATOR WORLD to examine the changes in Suzhou Jiangnan Jiajie Elevator Group Co., Ltd.’s (SJEC) factory in…
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Established by John Romnes in 1971, Minnesota Elevator, Inc. (MEI) in Mankato, Minnesota, serves the elevator industry through the design, manufacture, installation and service of elevators (ELEVATOR WORLD, July 2010). It specializes in installations, modernizations, maintenance and repairs. Since 2006, MEI has used several strategies to accelerate growth during the global recession. Employing 225, MEI…
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The Handbook of Smoke Control Engineering by John H. Klote, James A. Milke, Paul G. Turnbull, Ahmed Kashef and Michael J. Ferreira discusses smoke control engineering, myths about stack effect and the challenges of elevator pressurization. According to Klote, it is designed to enable engineers and other professionals to access information quickly. Earlier books on…
Read More by Jun Zhang, Ning Li, Youqin Xu, Xinfu Shen, Wei Chen, Xueming Chen, Yuan-dong Jiang and Junhua Shen European escalator standard EN 115-1:2008 was promulgated in 2008. China’s escalator safety standard equivalency calls for adoption of it, but the standards are not exactly the same. For all practical purposes, the China Elevator Standardization Technical Committee…
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How combining opportunity and creativity helped her establish success in the elevator industry A fifth-generation southern California resident, Leslie Malloy is founder, owner and president of Westcoast Companies, Inc. in Pasadena, California. She was introduced to the elevator industry by her childhood neighbor, Pauline Park. “She was a wonderful role model and believed women should…
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One of the city’s historic buildings undergoes an elevator modernization. In 2012, Grapevine, Texas-based Eklund’s Inc. and Schindler cooperated in an elevator-modernization project for CB Richard Ellis at Houston’s historic 712 Main Street. The art-deco skyscraper, designed by Alfred C. Finn, Kenneth Franzheim and J.E.R. Carpenter, was constructed in 1929 by real-estate mogul, banker and…
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