Legal Issues

You’ve Been Served: How to Respond to a Subpoena

In this Readers Platform, your author answers some key questions. Avoiding litigation these days is not easy. Sometimes the net is cast wide enough in civil litigation, particularly in the...

The Best Option: A Lawyer With VT Industry Experience

In this Readers Platform, your author talks about how choosing the right counsel can make all the difference. While seemingly narrowly focused, the vertical-transportation (VT) industry is, indeed, multifaceted and...

Hazard Assessments – Assume Nothing

Examining how an elevator service company can comply with OSHA’s requirement to “assess the workplace to determine if hazards are present” OSHA has long had a regulation that requires employers...

So, You’re an HR Manager

This Readers Platform explains the job and growing importance of an HR professional. “Human Resources isn’t just a thing we do. It’s the thing that runs our business.”– Human Resources...

A Defense for When Service Allegedly Falters

Your author discusses what elevator contractors need to know to minimize legal liability. With the growth of cities around the world, the use of vertical transportation has increased. While technology...

How OSHA and the Arbitrary Enforcement of U.S. Government Laws Affect Us All

Observations on the American legal system and OSHA’s attempt to surplant elevator codes In 1925, Franz Kafka published his well-known work, The Trial. The book described a successful professional man...

Skyhills Astra; image via ME Construction News

HRE Development Unveils Dubai’s Tower B at SkyHills Astra

Construction on the 31-story timber tower has begun in downtown Milwaukee; image courtesy of Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture.

Record-Breaking Timber Tower Breaks Ground in Milwaukee

CONNECTICUT FOOD PANTRY SOUP KITCHEN CUTS RIBBON ON NEW ELEVATOR

Connecticut Food Pantry/Soup Kitchen Cuts Ribbon on New Elevator

ELEVATOR SERVICE IN NYCHA DEVELOPMENTS DISRUPTED BY POWER SURGE

Elevator Service in NYCHA Developments Disrupted by Power Surge

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT FOR LIFT AND ESCALATOR SYMPOSIUM ENDS JUNE 30

Early Bird Discount for Lift and Escalator Symposium Ends June 30