Editor’s Overview
Supply Chains and Jugaad
I am going to talk about supply chains this month. It was certainly a topic of conversation at the recent National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) convention — by suppliers...
Views From All Sides
This summer ELEVATOR WORLD conducted a survey of the industry (see Taking the Pulse by Lindsay Fletcher). It proved a lot of what we already know. We all had a...
Supply Chains a Drag on Recovery
As 2021’s final months illustrate, a bottleneck in one corner of the globe eventually produces a logjam and compounds shortages in another. Port congestion, equipment shortages and extreme container freight...
The Future of Tall Buildings
I read recently that more high-rise buildings have been built in the past 20 years than existed before. That’s following 9/11, when everyone was afraid no one would want to...
Editor’s Overview Turkey September – October 2021
Dear Readers of Elevator World Turkey, We are faced with disasters every single day and we keep asking, “What is the worst that could happen?” Especially in August, we suffered...
They Said Who?
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate” — Cool Hand Luke (1967) Communication can be tricky when you are conversing with a whole industry: you mustn’t be too liberal...
The importance of competence in all things
Welcome to the 108th edition of ELEVATOR WORLD UK. Well, what a mixed bag of interesting subjects we have in this edition. Let me start by mentioning the U.K. Lift...
Surveying the Industry, Plus 100 Years of Code
We recently conducted a survey of the industry, mainly in the U.S. (see Taking the Pulse by Lindsay Fletcher). Nothing in it surprised me very much. We all had a...
A Focus on Speed
When will we all go back to the office? Paul Leonard, a management consultant at CoStar, a real estate research firm, believes office visits may reach 50% by Labor Day...
Help Wanted!!!
There were 9.3 million job openings in the U.S. at the end of April, a record high. And if finding workers wasn’t painful enough, retaining them was even harder. More...
