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Creating an Updated and Improved 2015 Safety Handbook
Members of the National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII®) Safety Committee met at the Elevator World, Inc. offices in Mobile, Alabama, over several days in October to begin revisions of the...
Zen and the Art of Elevator Maintenance
In the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, a discussion unfolds between motor-cycle enthusiasts regarding a set of assembly instructions that start by stating,...
Enthroned Above
This Guadalajara, Mexico, penthouse bathroom sports no illusion – it actually sits atop a 15-story elevator shaft. The elevator for the hoistway was never installed, so architects Jorge Luis and...
Empire State: An Inside View
Another excellent submission to ELEVATOR WORLD’s 2014 Photo Contest by David W. Fried of Van Deusen & Associates, the photo here was taken in the hoistway of the iconic Empire...
Unsolved Markings Mystery
This is the cylinder interior of the 1902 horizontal hydraulic elevator built by Warner Elevator Manufacturing Co. for the Golden Rule Co. Building in Belington, West Virginia (p. 40). The...
The New Life of Guide Rails
These well-timed photos from our 2014 Annual Photo Contest (winners in ELEVATOR WORLD, August 2014) were submitted by Russell Walker of Atwell International in Worcester, U.K. The photo at left,...
Another Elevator in a Unique Application
This spooky-looking elevator shaft is located in the Pantano de Guadalmena Dam in Beas de Segura, Spain. We’d like to thank entrant Miguel Ángel Tallante Martín of ThyssenKrupp Elevator’s Madrid...
Matching the Industrialist Theme
ELEVATOR WORLD Graphic Design Associate Jessica Trippe captured images of these two Schindler escalators with clear side panels while in Baltimore. The one-time power plant in which they are located...
Cenke Tower’s Standout Design
German studio HENN won a competition to design a 280-m-tall skyscraper in Taiyuan, China, de zeen reported. Cenke Tower is to be located in the center of the city. Its...
Anniversary at Mount Tianping
The first anniversary of the tourist elevator on Mount Tianping, China, was celebrated in February. The 120-m-tall Sicher GROS20 elevator can carry 1,260 passengers per hour and was challenging to...
