Cabs and Cab Accessories

Considerations for Evaluating and Selecting Custom Elevator Cab Interiors vs. Standard Elevator Cab Interiors

Understanding the distinctive features and benefits by Richard Waksmundzki What Are Standard Elevator Cab Interiors? Standard elevator cab interiors are pre-designed and manufactured to meet the most common use cases....

Back to Its Roots

SnapCab launches high-end custom division amid continued growth. by Kaija Wilkinsonimages courtesy of SnapCab Made entirely by hand at the company’s 56,000-ft2 facility in Warrington, Pennsylvania, the booth SnapCab presented...

Lift Cabs Laid Bare

Clients may not be paying as much attention to design and construction as one might think. In most people’s minds, when they hear the word “cabs,” their thoughts probably turn...

Keeping Elevators Safe From Infections

Assessing the risks of picking up COVID-19 or other viruses or bacteria in a cab and how to reduce infection risk by Dr. Michael Davies and Dr. P.J.B. Scott There...

Universal Design Principles for Cabs: Accessibility

An examination of standards on cabs the author says should be followed to help make lifts accessible to all There has been an effort to “converge” the EN 81-20 and...

ECR Custom Elevator Interiors

The company’s vice president shares how his team approaches the engineering and design of interiors and ceilings. Jonathan Adair ECR - Elevator Cab Renovations, which recently joined with MAD Elevator...

1950s Innovations in Elevator Cab Design

This History article examines cabin-access innovations that arose from the development of operator-less elevators in the early 1950s. The founding of Elevator World, Inc. in 1953 coincided with the introduction...

Ingenuity by Design

The evolution of an elevator handrail installation system is detailed in this Company Spotlight. A machinist by trade, Hans Joachim Lindemann of Selingenstadt, Germany, created the first sketches of what...

Modernization of an Icon

CEC, Schindler and others modernize the elevators at PENN1 (formerly 1 Penn Plaza) in NYC. Near the recently completed Moynihan Transportation Hub and soon-to-be-completed Penn Plaza Rail Station, PENN1 at...

CIA TO SHOWCASE CANOPEN LIFT AT INTERLIFT

CIA To Showcase CANopen Lift at Interlift

Both events will be held at Maestro’s Caterers in the Bronx; image courtesy of Maestro’s Caterers.

ECNY Events To Be Held on Same Day in Same Location

KAPOK 88 ACHIEVES LIFTINSTITUUT CERTIFICATION

Kapok 88 Achieves Liftinstituut Certification

WINNERS OF INAUGURAL ELLIES EUROPE COMPETITION ANNOUNCED

Winners of Inaugural Ellies Europe Competition Announced

image courtesy MEUS

Mitsubishi Elevator/Escalator Division Celebrates 40 Years in U.S.