Editor’s Overview
Parlez-Vous Français?
Brush up on your high-school French — we’re off to Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec for the once-every-four-years United. Montreal, next to Paris, has the second-largest French-speaking population...
Chicago — An Illustrious History
More elevator-industry history has been written in the Chicago environs than in any other place in North America. We focus this month on America’s second city with a special section....
Around the World and Back Again
Usually, my editorial takes the industry pulse, then “sells” the magazine to our readers. While working on this issue, however, we held an extraordinary meeting with our company officers, board...
Pretty Is . . .
“It is man’s desire to function in beautiful, artistic, uplifting spaces.” -- L. J. Blaiotta My mother used to tell me, “Pretty is as pretty does,” which made me straighten...
Construction Boom Versus Labor Bubble
Our cover this month has a certain “wow factor.” The Jeddah Tower is just in the initial stages of construction and won’t be completed until 2018. But, when it is,...
Training – The Long Road
I read recently in Engineering News Record that safety is often handled with “a microwave mentality when it is really a crock-pot problem.” In other words – it takes time...
The Spice of Life
If indeed, variety is the spice of life, we have a very flavorful issue for you this month. Our focus and special section centers on Turkey, where we have just...
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...
