Undine Stricker-Berghoff

Undine Stricker-Berghoff is the owner of ProEconomy, a Luebeck- Travemuende, Germany-based engineering office through which she works as a coach and consultant for management and marketing mainly in energy and building services. From 2008 until 2013, she was the managing director of VFA-Interlift e.V. in Hamburg, Germany. She studied Mechanical Engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and, immediately after graduation, worked as an energy consultant for ERPAG in Lugano, Switzerland, and Campione, Italy. Prior to joining VFA-Interlift, Stricker-Berghoff worked for VDI, the Association of German Engineers in Duesseldorf, Germany, as secretary for Building Services, and was in charge of the VDI-Standards department. She also served one term as director general for the Luebeck Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She has operated ProEconomy since 2005.

Elevating the VW “Bulli”

How the 3XL elevator from Schmidt Aufzüge Medebach is integrated into the automated production process images by Hans-Wilhelm Berghoff In November 2023, your author visited the freight elevator built by...

Enhancing Quantity and Quality of Employees in the Elevator Industry

The VDI Standard 2168 is being revised. Your author, Undine Stricker-Berghoff (USB), spoke to Horst Schickor (HS) from SBR Aufzugstechnik (Elevator Technology) in Gladbeck, Germany, about the revision of the...

A Special Kind of Heavy-Duty Elevator

Greta, Brumme and the ship lift Niederfinow north of Berlin At the end of August, your author visited the Niederfinow ship lift on the Oder-Havel Canal, approximately 60 km northeast...

Mobilizers Wanted

VDMA campaign focused on the industry is launched. At its general assembly, the industry association VDMA Lifts and Escalators (Aufzüge und Fahrtreppen), based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, announced that the elevator...

Schwelm Symposium 2023

The “hottest” elevator date in Germany A sunny 35.5° Celsius reports your authoress from her drive to the Schwelm Symposium 2023 in the middle of June in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany....

Second Swiss Elevator Day

Gathering provides a compact interconnection of expertise and contacts. Following the first event in 2021, approximately 80 participants met on June 6 at the Swiss Safety Center Academy of the...

Europe, Germany and Switzerland

In-depth discussions provide insight on the respective economies and the impacts on the elevator industry.  Traditionally, every year a report on the elevator and escalator markets in Europe's German-speaking countries...

Back With New Ideas

The 40th edition of the Heilbronn Elevator Days was held under the slogan "The Elevator in the 21st Century: sustainable, digital ... safe and secure!" For two days in early...

“Is There Even More?”

3D printing in elevator manufacturing Your author, Undine Stricker-Berghoff (USB), recently talked to Oliver Simmonds (OS), graduate engineer (University of Applied Science) in mechanical engineering and principal engineer at Schindler...

“The Next Generation Secures Our Future Life”

Otis lead discusses the technical, economic and human future. In December, Udo Hoffmann (UH), Central Europe Market Group lead and chairman of the Management Board of Otis Germany, based in...

TEI AWARDED CONTRACT FOR ELEVATORS AT BROOKLYN AMBULATORY HUB

TEI Awarded Contract for Elevators at Brooklyn Ambulatory Hub

Sara Marta, a refugee from Luanda, Angola, was hired in 2023 as an electromechanical assembler; image courtesy of Otis.

Otis Brazil Joins UN-Affiliated Companies With Refugees Forum

MEI-Total Elevator Solutions’ Mankato, Minnesota, manufacturing facility; image courtesy of MEI-Total Elevator Solutions

MEI-Total Elevator Solutions Investigating Fire at Minnesota HQ

Aull

Wittur Names Aull New CEO

(l-r) Legends Tower and the Boardwalk at Bricktown, designed by AO; image via the Robb Report

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