Canada Top Floor Elevator Store, a Wurtec company, has opened in Toronto. Serving the Canadian vertical-transportation market, the company provides products to purchase or rent. Top Floor Elevator Store is a distributor of Wurtec products, including rail installation and alignment tools, emergency communication products, top-of-car handrails with Canadian-specific code requirements, false cars, and a variety…
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The Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln recently under-went an exterior restoration project, and in August, the Lincoln Journal Star reported plans to renovate the build-ing’s four elevators. The project was expected to start within the next few months and take two years to com-plete. The 30-year-old elevators – which measure only 4-1/2 ft. X 5…
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By the time this November issue hits your desk or mail-box, work will already be well underway on ELEVATOR WORLD’s December issue. With another year almost in the bag, we have our sights set on 2012. The EW team worked together over the summer to create an invigor-ated editorial calendar for the coming year, which…
Read More Can the industry make more money by selling elevator up time instead of service visits? The elevator industry earns most of its living from maintenance contracts. You can presumably make more money by selling elevator up time instead of service visits. At the same time, you get better functioning elevators and happier customers. More Visits,…
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This paper was presented at Lucerne 2010, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 18, 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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Elevator-industry members come together to install a home elevator for a U.S. veteran. In 2006, Staff Sergeant Dan Barnes was on his second tour of duty in Iraq with the 5th Engineer Battalion from Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. The battalion was tasked with route clearance, which involved clearing roads of potential dangers. On September 4,…
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A description of the vertical transportation installed at The Institute for Advanced Study and a discussion on how Einstein used these elevators to discover new physical laws. The purpose of this article is to describe the vertical transportation installed at a place that may be the most elite intellectual institution in the world although its…
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A continued look at the role of teagles and hoists in early elevators Last month’s article introduced W. Sydney Smith’s Report on the Construction, Arrangement, and Fencing of Hoists and Teagles of 1904. This article will continue the discussion of this important work and address some of the safety devices Smith covered in the second…
Read More The conflict between what OSHA and the industry define as “appropriate” standards is examined. The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 created OSHA. Its purpose was to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for employees by creating and enforcing occupational safety and health standards and providing training, outreach, education and assistance. The standards, along…
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Details about the Elevcon congress to be held in Miami Beach, Florida, in May 2012 The Elevcon congress will be held in Miami Beach, Florida, at the Deauville Beach Resort Congress Center on May 22-24, 2012. Since 1986, Elevcon has traditionally been held every two years in a different location in Europe. During these years,…
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