Asia
Accessibility at Busy Indian Rail Station Criticized
G plus recently criticized accessibility at the busy Guwahati Railway Station (GRS) in the Northeast Indian state of Assam, observing there are too few lifts and that both lifts and...
42-Story Shanghai Tower Now Complete
U.K.-based Foster + Partners has completed a 200-m, 42-story skyscraper in Shanghai, China, that is part of a drive to attract development toward the city’s eastern quarter, Building Design reports....
KONE Elevators India Named to Top Manufacturing Workplace List
KONE Elevators India, a fully owned subsidiary of KONE Corp., announced that it has been recognized by Great Place To Work® India among India's Best Workplaces™ in Manufacturing 2023, Business...
12 Rescued From Elevator in the Philippines
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) announced firefighters rescued 12 people who were trapped inside an elevator in a commercial building in San Juan City in the Philippines on January...
Elevator Fall in India Results in Death
A 70-year-old man died and three others were injured when an elevator collapsed from the fourth floor of a commercial building in Vadodara, India, on January 28, The Indian Express...
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,...
