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New Moving Walk Eases Commute at Singapore MRT Station

A new moving walk linking the Green and Purple Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) lines at the Outram Park MRT station in central Singapore debuted on May 29, MS News reports....

TKE Launches Max In Singapore

TK Elevator (TKE) has launched MAX, its cloud-based, Internet of Things, predictive-maintenance platform for elevators, escalators and moving walks, in Singapore, TKE announced on May 24. Smart Maintenance will be...

KONE Singapore Recognized for Sustainability Leadership

KONE Singapore was one of three companies to recently receive a Business Leadership in Sustainability — Innovation award from the Singapore Green Building Council — Business & Construction Authority (SGBC-BCA),...

Otis Wins Award for Coast Mass Transit Line in Singapore

Otis has received the “Safety Excellence Award” from the Land Transport Authority (LTA) Singapore, which praised the company’s safety management processes and best practices at stages 1 to 3 of Thomson-East...

Singapore Towers to Be World’s Tallest Modular Buildings

A two-tower residential project planned for a site on the western edge of Singapore’s urban core will be notable as the world’s tallest modular-constructed buildings, Architectural Digest reported in July....

Updates on work from Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur

Hitachi Wins 300-Elevator Order for Singapore’s HDB Hitachi Elevator Asia Pte. Ltd. has won a long-term contract to supply, deliver and install 300 elevators for the Housing & Development Board...

Towers planned throughout the region; VT industry framework tweaked in Singapore.

Design Unveiled for Guangzhou Supertall Architecture firm Goettsch Partners has unveiled the design for a mixed-use project in Guangzhou, China, that will have a supertall tower as its centerpiece, ArchDaily...

Smart Singaporean Skyscraper a “Tropical Green Oasis”

A 51-story, 280-m-tall mixed-use skyscraper under construction in Singapore’s Raffles Place has a striking design designboom describes as a “tropical green oasis.” Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Carlo Ratti Associates...

Mall order, safety code mandate

KONE Wins Order for 69 Units at Mall KONE has won an order to supply 69 elevators and escalators to Funan DigitaLife Mall, a mixed-use development. The mall is designed...

Singapore Moves to Address Manpower Shortage

Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is addressing the need to hire 1,000 new vertical-transportation technicians in the next three years by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with industry...

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Huasheng Fujitec Elevator Wins NY Product Design Award

The City of Toronto is undertaking an office space needs study; image image by jplenio for Pixabay.

Ontario Office-to-Residential Conversion Act Voted Down

ATIS EXPANDS FOOTPRINT IN VERMONT THROUGH ACQUISITION

Atis Expands Footprint in Vermont Through Acquisition

Montresor

Schindler Lifts Australia Promotes Montresor to MD

Escalators serving Network Rail; image courtesy of Stannah

Stannah Wins Network Rail Lift and Escalator Service Contract