Europe
Developments in codes, VT contracts and tall building news across the continent
Slovakia’s First Skyscraper on Drawing Boards A 168-m-tall tower with 46 above-ground stories is planned by J&T Real Estate on the Danube River in Bratislava, Slovakia, The Slovak Spectator reported....
Spanish towers see new life, while developers look to build tall in Greece and Italy.
Stalled Residential Towers on Spanish Coast Resurrected Intempo, a pair of 47-story, 187-m-tall towers containing 256 homes, has restarted construction in Benidorm on the Spanish Mediterranean coast, thanks to new...
Manchester and London are targeted for new high rises and tall redevelopments.
Tower Trio With 1,500 Homes Envisioned in Manchester Developer Renaker envisions a trio of towers up to 50 stories tall that could deliver more than 1,500 homes to the Greater...
Acquisition and tall plans for London and Greater Manchester announced.
Vantage to Acquire TVC From Dewhurst UK Vantage Elevator Solutions, a designer, manufacturer and distributor of elevator components and systems and a portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital of San...
Elevator and tall building news from all over the continent
Cibes Lift Group Acquires Sweden’s Hiss i Skåne Elevator manufacturer Cibes Lift Group, which is headquartered in Gävle, Sweden, and has roughly 560 employees worldwide, recently acquired Hiss i Skåne,...
A busy summer stands to have continent-wide ramifications.
Sale of thyssenkrupp Elevator Being Considered by CEO In August, Reuters was among news outlets to report that thyssenkrupp CEO Guido Kerkhoff was considering selling the conglomerate’s profitable elevator division...
Ireland’s tallest planned; updates on tall buildings for Birmingham and London.
Planned Hotel Would Be Ireland’s Tallest Building Custom House Quay, a 34-story hotel planned as part of the redevelopment of the Cork City Custom House, would be the tallest building...
Ascen.tec Succeeds in Greece, Partners with EW
The 1st International Ascen.tec exhibition for elevator technologies was deemed a success by organizers Technoekdotiki/T-Press. Taking place on May 10-12 at the Mediterranean Exhibition Center in Paiania, Greece, it had...
thyssenkrupp lands metro contract; big changes on the horizon for Paris skyline.
Escalator Modernization Order for thyssenkrupp thyssenkrupp won a contract to modernize 53 escalators on Line 2 of the Lille Metro in northern France, the “successful result of a longstanding customer...
Tall-building completion and other important skyline-changing updates
Twentytwo Office Tower Tops Out PLP Architecture’s Twentytwo, the latest high rise in the city, became the district’s tallest building when it recently topped out, the Council on Tall Buildings...
