Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick
Elevator World Editor and Publisher
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Brush up on your high-school French — we’re off to Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec for the once-every-four-years United. Montreal, next to Paris, has the second-largest French-speaking population...
Liftex 2016
Best show in 28-year history held in London. by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick and Bülent Yılmaz When arriving in London, one cannot avoid the bevy of construction cranes. They are everywhere in...
Chicago — An Illustrious History
More elevator-industry history has been written in the Chicago environs than in any other place in North America. We focus this month on America’s second city with a special section....
Around the World and Back Again
Usually, my editorial takes the industry pulse, then “sells” the magazine to our readers. While working on this issue, however, we held an extraordinary meeting with our company officers, board...
Construction Boom Versus Labor Bubble
Our cover this month has a certain “wow factor.” The Jeddah Tower is just in the initial stages of construction and won’t be completed until 2018. But, when it is,...
Modernization: A New Cycle
“Does the lift system require a transplant, brain surgery or a facelift?” — Roger Howkins, author of Lift Modernization Guide Modernization used to be an “every 20-years cycle,” but that...
Projects Dominate
The winners of our nine categories of the 2016 ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year contest literally span the globe – from North America to Europe, from Wales to Hong...
Remote Is Good
While society worries that our use of cell phones and other handheld digital devices is dehumanizing and making us ever more remote from one another, this month’s issue finds that...
VIEEW Meets in Boston
photos by John Dimaio On September 28, early in the week of the National Association of Elevator Contractors’ Convention in Boston, the Vertical Initiative for Elevator & Escalator Women (VIEEW)...
The World Turns to Europe
It seems that everywhere in the world, there is turmoil, and people are on the move, seeking asylum from the dangers of war or trying to improve their station in...
