Editor’s Overview

What’s Your New Year’s Resolution for 2024?

“You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.” This dialogue, casually delivered by actor Robert De Niro to Natascha McElhone in the movie Ronin, seems apt while...

In the Beginning

It seems if you live long enough you will not only have many birthdays but will also enjoy watching organizations you care about do the same. This year, the Canadian...

Excellence at Every Turn

We begin this year celebrating our amazing 2024 ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year Award winners (half of which are featured in these pages; the other half will be featured...

Connecting Projects Large and Very Large

Recently, I finished a book titled The Devil in the White City, a non-fiction work about the building of Chicago’s World’s Fair in the late 1890s. Written by Erik Larson...

Outstanding Projects, Events Ring in the New Year

We begin this new year fittingly, with a celebration of our industry’s outstanding work. The eight winners of the 2024 ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year Awards are featured in...

Finding Sustainability

Recently, I finished a book titled The Devil in the White City, a nonfiction work about the building of Chicago’s World’s Fair in the late 1890s. Written by Erik Larson...

Welcome 2024!

We have entered 2024, leaving behind the 100th anniversary of our Republic. None of the previously promised targets for the centenary have been achieved, and there were also difficulties in...

Historical Webs

“All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.” — William Faulkner Webs are spun to support or enhance life. Certainly, that is true of the elevator...

Reasons for Hope

As we come to the end of our year, war rages in several places on Earth. Even Earth itself seems to be upset that humans are not paying enough attention...

Raising Elevator Safety Awareness and Alertness

The past few years have witnessed a much greater focus on the safety aspect of vertical transportation (VT). Numerous factors are involved in unfortunate accidents related to elevator and escalator...

Example of Mogilevliftmash elevator interior; image courtesy of Mogilevliftmash

Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus

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Unsworth Joins LML Lift Consultants Senior Consultant

This July will mark 40 years since the beginning of Wurtec; image courtesy of Wurtec

Wurtec Celebrating 40th Anniversary

HydraSafe surveyed 17 elevators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with partner Claddagh, which will be providing a control system for single-plunger code compliance; photo by Hugo Schneider for Wikipedia.

HydraSafe Brake: NYC Training, a Move and a New Hire

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Hotels Prepare to Implement Recent Elevator Code Revisions