Europe
London Tower Plans Updated for Sustainability
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled plans to overhaul its design for a 260-m tall London skyscraper to boost its sustainability credentials amid growing demand from occupiers for low-carbon...
KPF Reveals Plan for 37-Story East London Office Tower
Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has revealed its plan for a 160-m, 37-story office tower at the site of a 10-story, 1980s office block by the Old Street roundabout in East...
U.K.’s Sheridan Lifts Announces Hotel Chain Maintenance Contract
Manchester, U.K.-headquartered Sheridan Lifts recently announced a contract to maintain more than 70 lifts across the U.K. for Village Hotels. Sheridan Sales Operations Director Chris Chadwick said the company had...
Aquarium With Panoramic Elevator Bursts in Berlin
The giant aquarium in the lobby of the Radisson Collection Hotel in Berlin, containing 1 million liters of water and 1500 tropical fish, burst for an unknown reason on December...
Shorts Announces New Business Development Manager
Shorts, which provides products and services across all aspects of lift installation, modernization and maintenance in the U.K., recently announced that Andy Emsley has joined its team as Business Development...
Looking Ahead to Inaugural GEE in Milan in November 2023
With more than 30 major vertical-transportation companies already set to participate (as of December 2022), the inaugural Global Elevator Exhibition (GEE) at Fiera Milano in Milan, Italy, on November 15-17,...
Plans Submitted for Europe’s Largest Life Sciences Building
Canary Wharf Group and Dutch investor Kadans Science Partner have submitted plans for a 23-story tower in London’s Canary Wharf that the pair say is Europe’s largest life sciences building,...
Increased Power Outages Cause Elevator Issues in Ukraine
Nearly 10 months into the war in Ukraine, Russia’s large-scale missile barrages, along with smaller localized attacks targeting substations, transformers and electrical nodes across Ukraine have been crippling, resulting in...
Plans Submitted for 32-Story Tower Near Historic London Market
An application has been submitted to the City of London outlining plans to build a 32-story mixed-use office tower beside historic Leadenhall Market, Building reports. Proposals for 85 Gracechurch Street,...
Save the Date: LiftEx 2023 in Liverpool
The 2023 installment of LiftEx, the annual event hosted by LEEA (Lifting Equipment Engineers Association), will be held at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool, U.K., on November 21-22. The event website is...
