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Pilot Program Uses EV Battery Power to Run Elevators
Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and Hitachi Building Systems Co. Ltd., a Hitachi Ltd. Subsidiary, have announced a plan to roll out a system to keep elevators running during...
GP Part of Team Realizing Major TOD in Taiwan
Chicago-headquartered architecture firm Goettsch Partners (GP) announced on January 12 it is part of a team selected to design and develop a major, mixed-use transit-oriented development (TOD) in Hsinchu, considered...
Deep Metro Station in India With 26 VT Units Nearly Complete
With 95% of the work complete, according to My Pune Pulse, the Maha Metro's Civil Court interchange station in Pune is expected to open in approximately one month. Quoting a...
Elevator Issues in India Government Hospitals Focus of Inspection
Public Works Department (PWD) officials have inspected the elevators installed at government hospitals in rural and urban areas of the state of Chennai in India after Health Minister Ma Subramanian...
Skywalks With Vertical Transportation to Open in India
Mehdipatnam, a popular residential area in the southwestern suburbs of Hyderabad, India, is set to get a 390-m-long skywalk to facilitate pedestrians, and it will be equipped with 11 elevators,...
Man Dies in FOB Incident in India
A 25-year-old man was killed after getting trapped between a lift and the walls of a foot overbridge (FOB) in Delhi's Malviya Nagar in India, NDTV is among outlets to...
Hyundai Elevator Signs MOU for Passenger Safety System
Hyundai Elevator Co. has announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LG Uplus for cooperation in developing and spreading the "MIRI-VIEW," the Korea IT Times reports. MIRI-VIEW...
Elevator Fatality at India Construction Site
A 28-year-old service engineer trying to uninstall a temporary lift at a construction site in Sector 150 in Greater Noida, India, died after the elevator fell 25 floors to the...
EFESME President Meets With EECMAI, Attends ISEE in India
European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EFESME) President Massimo Bezzi recently strengthened ties in India by meeting with an Indian association and attending a major event. On December...
Three Killed in Elevator Crash at Factory in Delhi, India
Three members of the housekeeping staff at a pan masala factory in the Naraina Industrial Area of Delhi, India, died in an elevator crash on January 8, The Times of...
