Editor’s Overview
Modernization: A New Cycle
“Does the lift system require a transplant, brain surgery or a facelift?” — Roger Howkins, author of Lift Modernization Guide Modernization used to be an “every 20-years cycle,” but that...
Projects Dominate
The winners of our nine categories of the 2016 ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year contest literally span the globe – from North America to Europe, from Wales to Hong...
Remote Is Good
While society worries that our use of cell phones and other handheld digital devices is dehumanizing and making us ever more remote from one another, this month’s issue finds that...
Safety Awareness That Counts
As we write this month, several members of our staff have just returned from the National Association of Elevator Contractors Convention and Exhibition in Boston and are getting ready to...
The World Turns to Europe
It seems that everywhere in the world, there is turmoil, and people are on the move, seeking asylum from the dangers of war or trying to improve their station in...
Associations
It’s tempting to think of this as the “NAEC issue,” because it will go to the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) event on September 28-October 1 in Boston (see...
Beauty and the Beasts
Our focus topic this month is Escalators, Moving Walks and Components. Let me say right up front: I’m that lady you don’t want to be behind getting on the escalator!...
Piercing the Clouds
Our cover photo this month seems to say it all without a word. Since the first high-rise (over 100-m-tall) building, developers have sought to climb ever higher. Kingdom Tower in...
Ideas Go Face to Face
Recently, I read an article in Newsweek that I thought gave an unexpected boost to the elevator industry. The article refers to Thomas Friedman’s book The World is Flat, which...
A Tool of the Trade
I’m writing this only a few days after returning from a weeklong trip to Istanbul, where we are in the process of launching ELEVATOR WORLD Turkey. It was a privilege...
