Cabs and Doors
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...
Quality by Design
A look at Canton Architectural Products and its 15-year track record of providing cabs and cab components. Canton Elevator was founded in 1946 and has strived to maintain a reputation...
Geometry and Light
NYC’s United Cabs leads a team to create cab design with stylish staying power. photos by Albert Osoria When a subcontractor failed to deliver the elevator interiors architect Andres Escobar...
Time for Quicker Shipment
Columbia introduces multiple existing products and a new quotation system that combine to get elevators up and running much sooner than usual. It is said that you can always make...
Fire Homologations
A closer look at the fire-resistance safety standards for the elevator industry This article was first presented at the 2018 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Istanbul. For more information...
