Oceania
World’s Tallest Hybrid Timber Tower Greenlit in Australia
Grange Development Consulting is celebrating its plan to build C6, the world’s tallest hybrid timber tower, in South Perth, Australia, winning approval from the City of South Perth after negotiations...
Schindler Lift Australia Partners With CIBSE Awards 2023
Schindler Lifts Australia is partnering with The Chartered Institution of Building Services Australia and New Zealand (CIBSE ANZ) Young Engineers Awards. Held annually, this event gathers members and industry guests...
Australia’s LML Lift Consultants Gains Senior Consultant
Australia-based LML Lift Consultants recently announced the hire of Marty Jenkins as a senior consultant. Jenkins brings more than 43 years of vertical-transportation industry experience to his new role. In...
First Escalators Installed at Brisbane CRR Underground Station
The first two of almost 100 escalators to be installed in the Cross River Rail’s (CRR) underground stations have been placed at the Brisbane, Australia, project’s Woolloongabba site, Rail Express...
In Memoriam: Raymond Nelson
Raymond Nelson, a longtime elevator man whose career spanned more than 60 years, passed away on September 1 in Perth, Australia. An employee of Otis Australia, Nelson was deputed to...
Australia’s LESA Names New Executive Committee Members
The Lift Engineering Society of Australia (LESA) named the society's 2023-2024 Executive Committee members during its recent annual general meeting. Many of the previous executives remain in place, but there...
Members of Australia’s LESA Presented With Life Membership Certificates
Lift Engineering Society of Australia (LESA) Historian John Inglis presented three LESA members with life membership certificates during LESA’s annual general meeting in April. They are Graeme McRae, who has...
Sydney Firm Wins Design Competition for Towers on Parramatta Waterfront
Sydney architecture firm Chrofi has won a design competition for a 52-story mixed-use tower and an eight-story commercial building on the waterfront in Parramatta, Australia, Sydney’s “second CBD,” Architecture AU...
Groundbreaking Held for Schindler Lifts Australia’s New Alexandria Head Office
Schindler Lifts Australia Pty. Ltd. has marked a new chapter in its history with a sod-turning ceremony for the company's new head office at Ascent on Bourke, 520-530 Gardeners Road,...
Cooks Islands’ First Elevator on Track for August Completion
The Cook Islands Ministry of Justice elevator project — Cook Islands’ first elevator — is on track for completion in August, the Cook Islands News reports. The seven-month elevator project...
