More than 110 delegates registered for this biannual event in Germany. The European Lift Congress Heilbronn was held on October 9-10, 2012, near Heilbronn, Germany, and focused on safety, sustainability and technical innovations. More than 110 delegates registered for the two-day congress, with 98 in attendance on the first day and 96 on the second.…
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Held in October, this event saw exhibits from 100 companies from 17 countries. The EURO-LIFT 2012 elevator expo was held in the central Polish city of Kielce on October 24-26, 2012. The event provided the opportunity to present many lift products to Polish contractors, specifiers and users of lift and escalator equipment. This is particularly…
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Stannah Lifts Holdings Ltd. of Hampshire, U.K., has been serving the lift industry for more than 150 years. Founded by Joseph Stannah, the company’s first lift was designed to move ship cargo in the 1860s. Five generations later, Stannah is still a family owned and operated business. Employing 1,500 people globally, it manufactures and distributes…
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Anyone with an aversion to heights may think twice before stepping inside this el-evator. Giving the impression of a glass floor with a dizzying view of the city far below the riders’ feet is, in fact, a simple advertisement. Created by advertising agency Wriz/BBDO, Switzerland, for a Swiss skydiving school, the campaign consisted of stickers…
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United Elevator Cabs, Inc. has unveiled its Online Cab Designer, a 3D rendering program available without cost at website: uselevators.com/cab. The designer is intended to be user friendly and provides the option of choosing between “Raised Removable” or “Extrusion” models. Once chosen, an array of stones, woods, metals, textures and other finishing materials are available…
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Brazil New York-based Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates completed Infinity Tower in the financial district of São Paulo in September 2012. The 118-m-tall tower contains 39,000 m2 of office space and is to serve as Apple’s Brazilian headquarters. Its “sails” wrap each level with two sweeping curves of a glass curtain-wall system that supports the exterior…
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A draft environmental assessment from the Hawaii Department of Transportation in October 2012 detailed a modernization project for Honolulu International Airport totaling US$600 million. A new terminal, concourse, cargo facility and car-rental facility are among the proposed upgrades. The state described the modifications as providing “modern facilities to enhance safety and efficiency for passengers and…
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This month, we are beginning the celebration of our 60th year of publishing ELEVATOR WORLD. It has been a long journey, during which we have covered the “Ups and Downs” of the elevator industry during the last half of the 20th and first decade of the 21st centuries. In this month’s issue, we have included…
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by Janne Sorsa, Juha-Matti Kuusinen and Marja-Liisa Siikonen – Passenger Batch Arrivals at Elevator Lobbies Abstract A typical assumption in elevator traffic analysis is that passengers arrive at the elevator lobbies individually. A recent study in an office building shows that passengers actually arrive in batches, whose sizes depend on the time of day. This…
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This paper was presented at 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 (website: www.elevcon.com). This paper is an exact reprint and has not been edited by ELEVATOR…
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