Editor’s Overview
TES Dubai Finds Success
In mid-September, Elevator World, Inc. along with AFAG Messen und Ausstellungen, organiser of the world's leading trade fair, interlift, hosted The Elevator Show (TES) Dubai. The inaugural event premiered nearly...
Elections?
Every year, your editor must write an editorial in early November for the December issue. Only in election years is this significant, as you will know the voting results by...
Lift Symposium
The 11th Lift Symposium, which has become traditional under the umbrella of Izmir Branch on behalf of the TMMOB Chamber of Electrical Engineers and the Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, which...
Driving Mega Transformations in VT With a Macro Perspective
The vertical-transportation (VT) industry in India has been going from strength to strength during 2024. As we present EW India’s 2024 fourth-quarter issue, there is far greater awareness and emphasis...
Construction Is Cool
While the markets waited for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to drop interest rates in September, the construction industry was not waiting around. Construction starts jumped 4% in the first...
Breadth and Depth
As I write this, members of the Elevator World, Inc. team have just returned from Dubai, U.A.E., where they, along with AFAG Messen und Ausstellungen, organiser of the world's leading...
Future Ready
At the time of this writing, the Federal Reserve is preparing for its September meeting, where, likely, an interest rate cut will occur. In anticipation of this probability, total commercial...
EdItor’s Overview September 2024
Although our country's political agenda is always busy, we are leaving behind a summer with economic recession. In this period of recession, we see several prudent companies that are downsizing...
Courting the Future
Recently, ELEVATOR WORLD Editor-at-Large Ricia Sturgeon-Hendrick wrote that she believed many of us are just a little afraid of AI. She said: “I think it is the lack of humanness....
Vacancies
The vacancy rate for office buildings continues to plague our industry. Nationwide, it is 20.1%, with San Francisco the highest at 34.5%. Predictions are that vacancy rates will be 25%...
