Photos courtesy of Eklund’s The MGM Grand in Las Vegas opened in 1993 and has been among the largest hotel complexes in the U.S. In 2010, Eklund’s of the Dallas area and Otis Elevator Co. joined efforts to complete the elevator modernization with minimal disruption to the hotel guests. The project required maximum allowable elevator…
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by Matt Thompson Portland Tower, also known as St. Andrew’s House, is one of the most prominent high-rise commercial buildings in Manchester, U.K.’s City Centre and provides commercial office space to various institutions. The tower, finished in 1962, was one of the first high-rise buildings built in the 1960s and 1970s across the country in…
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by Cristian Bourceanu The five-star Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest, a landmark of Romania’s capital city, sits in University Square, the middle of Bucharest. Built between 1968 and 1970, following the design of Romanian architects Dinu Hariton, Gheorghe N˘a.drag and I. Moscu, and at 90 meters high, it is considered one of the tallest civil buildings…
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Tony Aschwanden and Conradin JostBucher Hydraulics AG, Switzerland 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…
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by Jeff Jenkins The Pennsylvania General Assembly established the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to provide public-transit services for its Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. SEPTA has since become one of the nation’s largest public-transportation systems, with a vast network of fixed-route services, including subway (underground and elevated), trackless trolley, light rail, commuter…
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by Mark E. Ortman Hydraulic elevator modernizations can be very challenging for both elevator contractors and drilling contractors alike. Many times, the challenge starts with simply moving the job materials into the building’s work area. Some buildings only have stairway access to both the basement and first floor. This makes bringing in heavy drilling equipment…
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by Clint Spencer and Emery Thran “Elevator Modernization” is something most of us relate to and agree about its general meaning. But this simple term doesn’t begin to recognize the potential scope and range of applications and challenges a modernization project may entail. Elevator modernization can be as fundamental as replacing a controller or machine,…
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by Davis L. Turner Introduction From time to time, the question arises as to the propriety of reversing the direction of travel of an escalator. The subject becomes particularly relevant when one of a pair of escalators might have to be removed from service for a long period of time to undergo repairs, or when…
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The introduction of new technology is occurring at an incredible rate, changing the way people communicate. Connectivity has never been better, nor so complex.
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