Editor’s Overview
Safety and Traffic in the New World
Our cover article this month is Harmonized Elevator Dispatching and Passenger Interfaces by Rick Barker. It features a system of destination dispatching developed by Barker Mohandas, LLC being offered to...
Doing More With Less
In August, construction employment totaled 7,259,000, reaching a 10-year high and growing by 297,000 this year alone. But 80% of contractors still report widespread difficulty finding qualified workers for hourly...
A Return to the Scene. . .
Last year, the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) was washed out of Florida by a rogue hurricane and made a hasty retreat to Atlantic City, New Jersey, for its...
O Canada
Our “well-behaved” neighbor to the north is the second-largest country in the world. Since almost 90% of Canada is uninhabitable, most people live within 100 miles of the U.S./Canada border...
Communications — People and Systems
‘Tis the season for communication. In this issue, we cover five spring events that spurred people-to-people communication. In addition, the spring meetings gave our staffers venues to see a lot...
First Impressions Are Forever
As we search for that singular thing that defines our industry — be it suppliers, training technicians, safety in the field, new technology, family businesses, the OEMs, entrepreneurs, the next...
Giants of the Urban Landscape
Our focus this month is on Escalators – what my father considered to be “a whole different breed” from elevators. The latter is enclosed, allowing passengers to be safer than...
Harmony and Harmonics
Hopefully, our spectacular cover jumps right off the page and into your hands. It is from the feature In Perfect “Harmony,” about the giant cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas....
If You Can Make It There
I have mentioned before that my family gravitates to New York City (NYC). And it is not the elevators — we were there when the city was low rise. The...
Flexing Muscles in a New Year
As I’m writing today, we are just a few days into 2018 and looking forward to a new and better year. The construction and elevator industries enjoyed a stellar 2017,...
