On June 14, U.S. President Barack Obama, along with First Lady Michelle Obama, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, visited the One World Trade Center (WTC) site to sign one of the final steel beams to be added to the tower. Obama met and…
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DigiPara has launched its Elevator- architect plugin on the Autodesk Exchange Apps store for Autodesk® Revit® software. The plugin is designed to enhance and standardize the design process for creating 3D-elevator models and allows users to find the correct size and number of required elevators available for their building in their region and import them…
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Australia Schindler has been selected to provide elevators for three office towers at the waterfront development in Sydney known as Barangaroo South. The AUD6-billion (US$6.06-billion) project is being built on the western edge of Sydney’s Central Business District and aims to be the first development in the city that is entirely ‘climate positive.’ The contract…
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The June 27 groundbreaking for Brickell CitiCentre in Miami marked the start of a four-year, US$1.05-billion project. Developer Swire Properties plans for the 5-million-sq.-ft. development to include office towers, condominiums, retail space and a hotel. Planned to spread over three blocks connected by bridges and covered walkways, the project is expected to be completed by…
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Our cover story this month is on the centerpiece structure that was recently topped out at the World Trade Center (WTC) site in New York City (NYC), which is now known as One WTC. The report on this iconic building was compiled from information I received during and after a number of site visits I…
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Elevator Doors Inc./Elevator Cabs, Inc. provides clients with 3D cab designs. “What will the finished cab look like?” “Do you have a picture of something similar?” “Should we do a mock-up?” These are typical questions that come up when discussing cab designs, and for the longest time, clients could only see rudimentary representations of the…
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University of California, Los Angeles and Robert Morris University in Chicago update elevator cabs. With more than 38,000 students on their 400-acre urban campus, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) administrators have turned to high-rise buildings to provide enough classroom and housing space to meet the needs of their growing student body. With college enrollment…
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The company shifts its focus to answer the growing demand for cab modernizations. Find a need and fill it, as the saying goes. In the case of Columbia Elevator’s cab division, it was the reverse. The need found the company, which, with capabilities already in place, it was immediately prepared to serve. Specifically, a market…
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The functions of clean elevators ensure security and reliability. by Wang Qibing, Li Dongliu, Zhu Liqiang and Li Qingmian The clean elevator is an industrial elevator capable of being installed in various applications that require clean and sterile environments, such as airports and operating rooms. It features self cleaning, static-electricity protection, wind-pressure and ultraviolet sterilization…
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How elevatoring requirements are impacted by mobility and circulation patterns of people within buildings by TAK Mathews and Nalini Raghavan Abstract The primary objective of elevatoring a building is to facilitate circulation and movement of people (and goods) within a building. To this end it is vital to understand why and how people need to…
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