A recap of September’s National Association of Elevator Contractors’ (NAEC) Annual Convention & 2011 Expo held in New Orleans Since its formal establishment in 1950, the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) has directed its efforts to the interests of independent elevator contractors and suppliers of products and services. Promoting safe and reliable elevator and…
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ThyssenKrupp Elevator Italia equipped this Italian building with advanced vertical-transportation technology capable of moving 350,000 people through the complex each year. Milan, Italy’s Lombardy region headquarters, known as L’Altra Sede, is the first public building of its kind constructed in the city since 1450, when Castello Sforzesco was erected. Designed by the international consor-tium of…
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Recently, a pair of The Peelle Co. escalators was discovered in Austin, Texas, after being hidden by flower boxes for nearly 40 years. Originally installed in 1955 in a five-story building that housed the American National Bank, the units are among the city’s first escalators. In 1971, the building was purchased by the state, and…
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Alimak Hek has announced the extension of its light lift range with the introduction of HEK TPL 500 and 300. It is designed to be flexible, robust and simple. Applications are direct to buildings and scaffoldings for both new construction and refurbishment. The products are available in either three phase with 500-kg capacity or single…
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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 ÂInternational Congress on Vertical Transportation ÂTechnologies and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 18, edited by A. Lustig. It is a reprint with Âpermission from the International Association of ÂElevator 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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