Editor’s Overview

A Path Forward

Hope is like a path in the countryside. [At first], there is nothing - - - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.-- Lu Xum...

Dear Readers of Elevator World Turkey, january February 2022

We left 2021 behind, a year that everyone wanted to get rid of. Unfortunately, we have felt the same at the beginning of the last year, and did not like...

How Smart Is Your Building?

During the last several years when my entertainment options were severely reduced to staying at home, I had friends suggest various television shows I could watch. Their suggestion was always...

Finding a Path

Hope is like a path in the countryside. [At first], there is nothing — but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears. — Lu Xum My...

Onward and Upward

Welcome to the 109th edition of Elevator World UK. Yet again, it has been a busy time in the U.K. lift world. In my last introduction, I made mention of...

Transformers and Game Changers

Technology is an integral part of our lives, and there is hardly any aspect that remains unaffected by its advances. The vertical-transportation (VT) industry has always exemplified the adage, “be...

Editor’s overview November – December 2021

Dear Readers of Elevator World Turkey, The pandemic that we have experienced over the last two years seems to have existed for much longer. Following the first cases in countries,...

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...

Harrods London; image courtesy of Harrods

Britain’s First Curved Escalators Coming to Luxury Retailer

HYPRLIFT ANNOUNCES FIRST U.S. PATENT AWARD

Hyprlift Announces First U.S. Patent Award

VDA ACQUIRES FLORIDA- BASED SUNCOAST ELEVATOR INSPECTIONS

VDA Acquires Florida-Based Suncoast Elevator Inspections

The Kross; image courtesy of Otis

Otis Elevator System for New Ho Chi Minh City Tower

Skyhills Astra; image via ME Construction News

HRE Development Unveils Dubai’s Tower B at SkyHills Astra