Europe

EW Announces 2024 Project of the Year Winners

ELEVATOR WORLD proudly announces the 2024 Project of the Year winners. Expert teams in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Singapore and the Middle East emerged victorious by successfully completing challenging,...

CTBUH UK Chapter To Host End-of-Year Celebration and Conference Launch

The U.K. chapter of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) plans to host an end-of-year celebration and launch of the 2024 “New or Renew” conference on the...

Schmersal Opens Branch in Saudi Arabia

The Schmersal Group, headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, has expanded its global network with Schmersal Middle East Industrial Trading LLC, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Schmersal announced on November 28. The company...

IEES 2024 Date and Location Announced

As we approach the 2023 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium (IEES) next week in Scotland, the dates and location for the 2024 IEES have been announced. The 2024 edition of...

Warsaw Office Complex Project Receives Second-Phase Investment

Sweden-based development company Skanska has invested EUR100 million (US$109 million) in the second phase of Studio, an office complex in Warsaw, Poland. Located in the Wola district, the 27-story building...

PLC Partners With SafeLine for Safer Line of Emergency Communications

The U.K.’s Platform Lift Company (PLC) has partnered with SafeLine, a Swedish company that manufactures open protocol safety accessories for lifts, to ensure that all emergency auto-dialers currently installed within...

Schindler VT Equipment for Development That Includes New Bratislava Landmark

Schindler tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided vertical-transportation (VT) equipment for Eurovea City, a mixed-use master-planned development on the Danube River in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava that includes Slovakia's tallest...

Glasgow City Council Develops New Tall-Building Guidance

The City Council in Glasgow, Scotland, has developed a new tall-building guidance that aims to make the city center more "livable, sustainable and diverse" as it grows, STV News reports....

CEDES Names Smans President of Business Development, IoT and Digital Products

Switzerland-headquartered sensor specialist CEDES AG recently named Daan Smans president of business development, Internet of Things (IoT) and digital products. Smans' professional experience includes being product director at relayr, where...

Smart City Expo Doha to Focus on Data, Connectivity and Sustainability

Under the motto “A World of Data: Connecting People, Elevating Lives,” the third iteration of Smart City Expo (SCE) Doha 2023 on November 29-30 at the International Horticulture Exhibition of...

88 Merivale Street; image © Koichi Takada Architects/Binyan Studios

Developer of Brisbane “Urban Forest” Seeks To Go Taller

Brooklyn Hospital Center; image courtesy of STO Building Group

Brooklyn Hospital Center Secures US$2 Million for Escalator Work

EAM TO HOST HOLIDAY SOCIAL ON NOVEMBER 13

EAM To Host Holiday Social on November 13

HITACHI LIFT INDIA RECEIVES ORDER FOR 56 ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS

Hitachi Lift India Receives Order for 56 Elevators and Escalators

The 125th Street and Broadway MTA station; photo by General Punger for Wikipedia

Inaccessibility at Key NYC Subway Station Focus of Meeting