Cabs

It’s All About Relationships

In this Readers’ Platform, your author discusses how FabACab delivers its patented elevator interior system with the goal of ensuring customers get exactly what they need. by Mandy Mills When...

“Doors, Doors, Doors”

Your author (KF) learns about OSU’s VT fleet (and what goes into maintaining it) from Daren Lehman (DL). images courtesy of OSU With a total enrollment of 67,772 students as...

Built to Dazzle in Oslo

Elevators serving one of Norway’s largest hotels are an experience in themselves.  Financed and built by Norway’s Oslo Municipality to accommodate the 1952 Winter Olympics, what is now known as...

Vertical Transportation Safety Awareness, Inclusiveness and Design Approach Matters in the Global Frame

This paper was presented at the International Elevator & Escalator Symposium 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. by Magdalena Krstanoski Abstract By utilizing Multi Attribute Analysis, this paper identifies and outlines relevant...

A Diverse Approach to Lifts: Cabin Design

Elevator design is determined according to the capacity, the number of people, expectations of the times, the target audience and the country. For elevator manufacturers that export to several places...

Walls and Interior Design in Elevator Cabins

Being the only component that the passengers see, aesthetics of elevator cabins are important. Cabins can be manufactured of various types and materials.  Nevertheless, the material and the decorative structure...

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...

Elevator entrance; image courtesy of NYC Housing Connect via New York YIMBY

Skyline Elevator System For New Brooklyn Residential Building

David M. Childs; headshot via the Architect's Newspaper

In Memoriam: David M. Childs

Image courtesy of Stannah Lifts

Stannah Urges Lift Owners To Prepare for PSTN Switchover

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Ziehl-Abegg Reports Bright Outlook for 2025

SIMS4LIFTS NOW SIMSINLIFTS, LAUNCHES ENHANCED PORTAL

Sims4Lifts Now SIMSINLIFTS, Launches Enhanced Portal