Editor’s Overview
Let’s Hear It for the Doors
by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick The elevator industry was very lucky to be considered “essential” throughout regulations related to the COVID-19 pandemic, so maintenance continued, while construction stalled. An industry survey conducted...
Elevator World Turkey
Dear Readers of Elevator World Turkey, The countries’ expectations of economic shrinkage due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the results of the second quarter are being announced worldwide. Although the...
Virtual Is the New Normal
by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick This should be called “the summer of our discontent.” You’ve heard the quote, “Men plan, and God laughs.” That seems to describe the last four months —...
A Return to Merchants on the Mediterranean
In early February, T. Bruce MacKinnon, president and CEO of Elevator World Inc. (my son), and Bulent Yılmaz, managing director of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe went on a whirlwind Tour of...
Neighbor to the North Is Booming
by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick Years ago, I heard a comedian at a Canadian Elevator Contractors Association (CECA) convention say that one of the differences between Canadians and Americans is, when you...
Cleaning Up in the Aftermath
By Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick By the time you read this, most of us will be out of quarantine and observing a new world where everything seems a little more dangerous —...
Ideas Abound In The New Normal
In three short months, elevators have gone from the safest means of travel in the world to a stressful square space we are reluctant to enter. We are used to...
On Being Essential
by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick We are halfway through a year that has been dominated by a strange virus that has forced the whole world to shelter in place for months. When...
Elevatoring in the Time of Coronavirus
In early January, we decided to have the Elevator World, Inc. Annual General Meeting virtually. It wasn’t because we had to, but because our CEO wanted to try out some...
A Failure to Communicate
by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick About 20 years ago, I was briefly stuck in an elevator in China, alone, in the dark. It was frightening, even to an elevator person. I found...
