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by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick The last issue of 2019 comes packed with Event reporting, a focus on Escalators and the Ellies! The Ellies is the awards program that became an overnight sensation. This is the first elevator industry award in which companies are nominated and voted on by elevator industry members. It turns out we are…
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A funny thing happened to me at a recent National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) Field Safety Committee meeting in New York. One of the attendees was the grandson of a man who was on the original committee, started by Elevator World, Inc. in 1973. I was at that first meeting, working for my father at…
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Augsburg, Germany, is a quaint little town in Bavaria about an hour from Munich. It was the childhood home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and is one of Germany’s oldest cities, tracing its history to 15 B.C. This is where one of the biggest tradeshows in our industry is held. Interlift, two years ago, had more…
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It would be easy to dismiss cabs and doors as just the “pretty” side of the elevator business; however, the way the cab looks and the way the doors work says everything about the building in which the elevator works. The way it looks may be your only chance to make an impression on passengers…
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What fun it is to write about the South and crush a few misconceptions in the process! We are not slow, even in the heat of an Alabama summer. Our Kaija Wilkinson, in Prognosis Positive, writes that business is strong in the South. Jobs are plentiful for skilled labor, with Atlanta, Charlotte and Miami leading…
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“We chose Urban Escape because it fits with Microsoft’s vision of the intelligent workplace, where people, technology and the environment are in symbiosis.” — Joacim Damgard, Microsoft Sweden Our cover this month is from the feature A Remarkable Milestone in Stockholm by Kaija Wilkinson. Urban Escape is a vertical “city within a city” and the…
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This month, we celebrate the people of the industry, along with the purposes and places in which they gathered. This is our second annual People Issue, and the response was very widespread — in the U.S., it went from New York to Texas and Virginia to Minnesota. Internationally, we had responses from as close as…
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“Elevator equipment across America is aging and will need attention to remain safe and reliable.” — Åsa Christina Magnusson When we announced the focus topic for this month, Maintenance and Modernization, we were hardly prepared for such enthusiasm — 10 articles, with three on maintenance and the rest on mod jobs. In some areas like…
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According to most people I talk to, hydraulic elevators never really went away, but they took a hit for a while. Due to the possibility of leaks, they were given a bad rap in the 1980s and 1990s when environmental awareness was increasing. In addition, the machine- room-less (MRL) elevator was just appearing in the…
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Why don’t you just meet me in the middle?” chants a song by Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey, encouraging us to do just that as ELEVATOR WORLD celebrates America’s Midwest. Bounded by east and west coasts on the sides and stretching from Canada to Texas in the middle, the American heartland is “Cautiously Optimistic” according to…
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