Editor’s Overview
Getting Your Teeth into Safety
Our cover this month depicts the transparent elevators at the core of a historic complex in the U.K. All of the elevators in the Manchester Central Library and Town Hall...
A Third Wave of Modular Construction?
Elevator guides and guide rails are the Focus Topic for this month’s issue. I’ve always considered guide rails the Interstate Highway System of our industry. In an elevator hoistway, they...
From Alabama to New York and More
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.— John F. Kennedy Here we go with change...
Art in Motion
In the elevator industry, beauty is much more than cladding deep. As we focus on cab aesthetics and design this month, we find our industry’s art in constant motion. Our...
Is It Hot in Here?
Remember how I recently said ELEVATOR WORLD regularly tries to take the temperature of the industry? It’s a predictive issue for us, constantly searching out what’s hot and what’s not....
It’s a Small World
Anyone who has been to Disney World has probably taken the boat ride, in which children from many different countries are singing the impossible-to-get-out-of-your-head song, “It’s a Small World.” The...
Looking Up
This month, our cover story explores the newly reopened Polaris revolving lounge atop the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. The lounge, and the elevators that serve the hotel, are iconic, replicated...
Change
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” –Winston Churchill But change is so hard! Most of us have to be prodded with a pitchfork to...
A New Journey
This year is my 50th in the elevator industry, and in response to a lifelong commitment to work full time for only half of my anticipated lifetime, as of March...
Less Is More!
The most significant activity for new elevator construction reported last year was in the Far East, with China’s 470,000 new elevator installations leading the world. Along with the growth in...
