All photos are courtesy of ThyssenKrupp Elevator Some 100 years after Cologne, Germany’s town center, Rhine harbor, originally opened in 1898, a new highlight of urban development is taking shape. Rhine harbor, formerly a busy cargo-handling area, is now home to dwellings and office buildings catering to upmarket tastes. Designed by BRT Architects, the three…
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On the 103rd floor of the 110-story-tall Chicago Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower), one of the tallest buildings in the world, is the means to experience a breathtaking and unique view of the city – that is, if you’re brave enough. Extending 4.3 ft. from the skyscraper’s Skydeck, 1,353 ft. in the air, The…
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Smart Elevator Tech, LLC’s patent-pending Retracta Ladder® is a retract -able elevator pit ladder engineered to fit tight clearances where traditional, stationary pit ladders do not fit. For new and existing elevators, including machine-room-less hoist-way overhead-machine access, the ladder is 16 inches wide. Custom widths are available, with height increments to fit any pit depth.…
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Belgium The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) new headquarters has been under construction since December 2010, and completion is scheduled for 2015. The new 100-acre site in Brussels is designed by Chicago-based architects Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and the Belgian Bureau Assar. The site will feature a series of six-story blocks linked by a central…
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Preservation Massachusetts has presented Suffolk University with a Paul E. Tsongas Award in recognition of its restoration of the Modern Theatre in Boston’s Historic Theater District, which reopened in November 2010. Otis provided two units for the theater: one Gen2® high-rise elevator and a low-rise holed hydraulic elevator. While the front of the building is…
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The 20th century was an era of significant innovation and technological development, particularly in the fields of vertical and horizontal transportation. The Wright brothers’ flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, was the impetus for what ultimately became the commercial airline industry. Henry Ford’s mass production of automobiles was the first step in making automobile manufacturing…
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by Jesus Sanz and Jose Enrique Fernandez In recent years, the development of new joining systems for guide rails has opened up a new perspective in the concept of the riding path by considering it a “whole” unit and aiming to maintain the same structural and quality properties along the hoistway. However, joints are critical…
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This engineering research provides a look at the various aspects of guide rails and how important they are to elevator safety. by Serhat Koç, Dr. C. Erdem Imrak and Sefa Targit Abstract Elevator systems consist of too many components and guide rails are the most important ones in terms of elevator safety. For a safe,…
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This paper provides an example of conventional elevator design practice pertaining to rail clips, brackets and rail anchors as separate units. 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…
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Arizona State University’s research and education center provides a solution for determining the energy efficiency of elevators. by Rich Madarasz, Jimmie Anicich, Rob Vandling and Kathy Mutch Arizona State University (ASU) is itself a city of 82,000 students, fac-ulty and staff. ASU’s Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS) is a leading research and education center for…
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