Modernization
Mövenpick Bosphorus Hotel Project
In 2020, a renovation decision was made for Movenpick Bosphorus Hotel, which was built at the bottom of Yıldız Ramp, the heart of Istanbul, in 1996. Otis undertook the replacement...
Otis’ Sabancı Center Modernization Project
Eight elevators in two towers of Sabancı Center, located in 4. Levent, Istanbul, and composed of two towers of 140- and 158-meters, were decided to be modernized in 2019. Modernization...
What is Elevator Modernization and Why is it Needed?
Revision and renewal of the existing system, in order to provide efficiency for elevators and to meet the improving and changing needs, enables the existing units to be upgraded to...
Modernization and Electronic Equipment of Elevators
Elevator maintenance and modernization have been inseparable over the years. In international references, modernization is defined as the replacement of all elevator components except the rails. Moreover, any attempt to...
Future Modernizations
This paper was first presented virtually at the 12th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium in September 2021 and printed at the symposium website at liftsymposium.org. Keywords: modernization, post-pandemic workplace, societal...
Up to the Challenge
Apex Lifts works through the demands of a lift modernization project in a fully operational building. Apex Lifts develops lift solutions tailored to clients' building needs. One example of this...
Traction MRLs Replace Coastal Site’s Aging Hydraulics
KONE’s EcoDisc technology helps modernize upscale office complex’s VT system. When bids came in for modernization of aging hydraulic elevators at Shippan Landing, an upscale office complex in Stamford, Connecticut,...
Up To Par
TKE modernization brings VT system serving corporate St. Paul HQ building into the 21st century. photos by Ron Acord Ecolab is a global leader in water, hygiene and infection-prevention solutions...
Amritsar Railway Station Redevelopment
Goonmeet Singh Chauhan (GSC), founder and partner, DFI, explains the new design and architecture of the recently announced project to your author (SSP). SSP: How was the new design and...
Not Just a Quick Fix
thyssenkrupp Elevator’s modernization of nine elevators for UHealth Tower at the University of Miami Hospital may have been speedy, but none of it was done halfway. This elevator modernization at...
