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Ontario’s Durham College Formally Welcomes New Training Center

Durham College in Oshawa, Canada, formally unveiled its CAD35-million (US$26.9-million), 60,000-ft2, two-story skilled trades training facility during a grand opening on April 21. Located on the school’s Whitby Campus, the...

Tower With Design Style Proposed for Brisbane, Australia

The designer Rothelowman, working with developer Aris, has come up with a 20-story tower in the Kangaroo Point area of Brisbane, Australia, ArchitectureAU reports. The designer promotes the project at...

Plan for Western Canada City Includes 16 Tall Towers

A plan to redevelop the former Frasier Mills site on the Frasier River approximately 30 km east of Vancouver, Canada, in Coquitlam, has evolved and gotten bigger, in turn gaining...

Nidec Elevator Group’s MCE Relocates NYC Office

Nidec Elevator Group's Motion Control Engineering (MCE), a leading provider of non-proprietary elevator controls, has relocated its NYC area support office from the Glendale neighborhood of Queens to Flushing, Queens,...

NEII Names Director of Safey and Director of Government Affairs

National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) recently named Trent Behr director of safety and Billy Taylor director of government affairs. Prior to joining NEII, Behr served as a project manager for...

Motion Industries Honors Gates as Supplier of the Year

Motion Industries, Inc., a distributor of maintenance, repair and operation replacement parts headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, honored Denver, Colorado-headquartered Gates Industrial Corp. plc as its 2021 Supplier of the Year,...

NYC Developers Behind Jacksonville, Florida, Proposal

A partnership by a pair of development companies proposes to build a 44-story, mixed-use building on the waterfront in Jacksonville, Florida, Florida YIMBY reported in April. American Lions LLC, a...

CTBUH Announces Renovation, Interior Design Award Winners

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced Award of Excellence winners in the renovation and interior design categories on May 3, following announcements of winners in various...

KONE India Unveils World’s Largest Passenger Elevator in Mumbai

KONE India unveiled an "engineering marvel": the world's largest passenger elevator, during a press conference at Jio World Centre in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex on May 5. Covering a floor...

20-Story Luxury Apartment Tower Planned in Houston

El Paso, Texas-based Hunt Cos. and Dallas-based StreetLights Residential announced plans on May 2 for a 20-story luxury apartment building at 1717 Bissonnet Street in Houston, Community Impact Newspaper reports....

SEA-LEVEL RISE THREATENS NEW YORK HOUSING AND TALL BUILDINGS

Sea-Level Rise Threatens NYC Housing and Tall Buildings

HOUSTON SENIOR APARTMENT COMPLEX SUFFERING ELEVATOR BREAKDOWNS

Houston Senior Apartment Complex Suffering Elevator Breakdowns

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Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus