Maintenance

It Pays to Be Consistent

Why regular elevator maintenance is a good long-term investment It is crucial that elevators operate efficiently so building occupants may conduct business and go about their lives without disruption. Adding...

Gearless DC Machines Should Be Replaced

Old-technology motors have no place in modernized elevators for many reasons. This paper was presented at   Berlin 2018, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and flrst published in...

Energy and Operational Saving Strategies

Benefits of modernization projects for escalator and moving walk drives Most vertical-transportation industry stakeholders — and people in general — are more and more committed to protecting the environment. Thus,...

Modernization for the Metro

In 2017, RATP, the public transport operator and infrastructure manager of the Paris Metro, concluded it was time to modernize the two 100-person-capacity elevators at the historic Lamarck- Caulaincourt station,...

Elevator Modernization: When Is It Time?

In this Readers Platform, your author explains how to approach this major investment armed with insight. by Laurie Axium Kohl The decision to modernize your elevators should never be taken...

The old traction machines

In this Readers Platform, Vantage and Champion executives discuss working together on their biggest-ever modernization. In 2018, Champion Elevator teamed up with Vantage Elevator Solutions to deliver the largest project...

21st Century Upgrade

In this Project Spotlight, the Banco Central do Brasil tower gets a modernization of a VT system more than three decades old. With their building’s elevators more than 30 years...

What’s New in Modernization

Columbia advances the upgrade of cabs. In today’s real-estate universe, rising with the ever-escalating heights of today’s supertalls, is the incidence of elevator modernization, and there are numerous reasons why....

Suspension Means — Equalizing Loads to Extend Their Service Life

Hydraulic rope alignment systems substantially reduce rope wear on any elevator system. This paper was presented at Berlin 2018, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in...

Predictive Maintenance — Smart Services Enabled by Industrial Analytics

by Rami Aro and Carlos Paiz Gatica This paper was presented at Berlin 2018, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 22,...

Rendering of the Hilton Hawaiian Village addition; image courtesy of Hilton

36-Story Addition To Hilton Hawaiian Village Greenlit in Waikiki

NEXGEN 2026 EDUCATIONAL RETREAT TO SET SAIL IN SPRING

NexGen 2026 Educational Retreat To Set Sail in Spring

ATLAS ELEVATORS TO PROVIDE 34 ELEVATORS FOR MADINAH PROJECT

Atlas Elevators To Provide 34 Elevators for Madinah Project

CECA ANNOUNCES SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

CECA Announces Scholarship Winners

METRORAIL AUDIT HIGHLIGHTS VERTICAL-TRANSPORTATION MAINTENANCE CONCERNS

Metrorail Audit Highlights D.C. VT Maintenance Concerns