Software

The Elevator Industry: Data Accessibility and Transparency

Data helps manage maintenance costs, safety and regulatory compliance. In the elevator industry ecosystem of building owners, property managers, contractors, field staff, consultants and regulators, data transparency related to elevator...

Lift Industry and BIM: A Long Overdue Adopted and Typically Overlooked Project Enabler

This paper was first presented at the 13th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium in September 2022 and printed at the symposium website at liftsymposium.org. Keywords: BIM, Digitalization, Digital Construction Abstract....

Robots and Remote Elevator Operability

TKE provides digitally advanced elevators at Canada’s new Calgary Cancer Centre. Advances in Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) paved the way for companies like TK Elevator (TKE) to offer robot-elevator APIs...

Elevator Ride Quality Adjustment With A VFD

Properly used, software functions can eliminate effects of rollback and increase speed-control response. Many people take ride quality for granted when they use an elevator, but a smooth and responsive...

Automatic Transfer Fabrication Of Special Elevators With Parametric Design Program

Your author describes how specialized software enhances efficiency and accuracy. This paper was presented at  ELEVCON Berlin 2018, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book...

CAUTION URGED AFTER FATAL ESCALATOR FALL IN CANADA

Caution Urged After Fatal Escalator Fall in Canada

One of the new elevators; image courtesy of MTA

Modern Elevator Provides Two ADA Units for Brooklyn Station

AZERBAIJANI-CHINESE VT FACTORY TO LAUNCH IN AZERBAIJAN

Azerbaijani-Chinese VT Factory in Azerbaijan

Elevators were installed in wooden shafts using a certified, high-efficiency assembly method; image courtesy of Schindler.

Schindler Provides 32 Elevators for New Berlin Schools

Biodiverse plan for 1 Silk Street; image courtesy of SOM

1980s London Buildings to Make Way for New Tower Plan