Cab Accessories

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...

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

Developer of 1,907-Ft-Tall Oklahoma City Tower Says He’s Secured Financing