Editor’s Overview
Calling On Visionaries
Some 25 years ago, my father, William C. Sturgeon, (with the help of others in the industry) tried to imagine what the building transportation world would be like in the...
The Future Is Upon Us!
by Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick Twenty-five years ago, my father had a vision. He called it “seeing into the future with 2020 Vision.” He invited many of the great visionaries in our...
Moving Toward A New Normal
As we go to press, it is a troubled time for all of us around the world. For a while now, we have had to physically cut ourselves off from...
Year End Comes With Three E’s
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...
Full Circle
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...
See You in Bavaria
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,...
The Pretty Side
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...
Way Down South in the Land of Plenty
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...
Symbiosis
“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...
We the People
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...
