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Delays in Elevator Registration in India

Nearly two months after the Uttar Pradesh government in India introduced the Lift and Escalator Rules, 2024, for elevator safety, none of the 80,000 lifts across 350 Noida high-rise building...

KJA Hires Macfadyen as National Account Executive

KJA Consultants, part of ATIS Ascenda Partners, announced it has named Christina Macfadyen as national account executive. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Macfadyen started her new job in November. She joined...

KONE India Launches Smart Elevator Series at ISEE Event

KONE India unveiled its I MonoSpace® SMART, KONE I MiniSpace™ and KONE A MonoSpace SMART elevators at the International Sourcing Exposition (ISEE) for Elevators in India, Realty+ reports. These models are the...

Registration Now Open For Elevcon 2025 in Lisbon

Registration for Elevcon 2025, the 24th International Congress on Vertical-Transportation (VT) Technologies, in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 17-19, 2025, is now open. The leading congress for the elevator and VT...

32 New Elevators to be Installed in Maldives Towers

Managing Director of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) of the Maldives Fazul Rasheed announced that two elevators will be installed in each tower of the Hiyaa flats in Hulhumalé, one...

Broken Escalators at London DLR Station Spark Anger

All four escalators connecting the three floors of the Cutty Sark Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in south-east London have been broken for the past two months, sparking anger among...

Otis VT System For “Architectural Marvel” in Kuala Lumpur

Otis announced on December 3 it won an order to provide the vertical-transportation (VT) system for the 68-story Dawn KLCC mixed-use building in the center of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Awarded...

India’s Senior Living Housing Sector to Rise Over 300% by 2030: JLL — Asli Report.

India’s senior population — defined as individuals age 60 and above — is poised to more than double, from 156.7 million in 2024 to 346 million by 2050. This demographic...

Babich Named VP of Sales at Hal-Brant Elevator

Industry veteran John Babich recently announced he has been named vice president (VP) of sales at Burlington, Ontario-based Hal-Brant Elevator Services Ltd. With a career spanning approximately 40 years, Babich...

EW Announces 2025 Project of the Year Winners

ELEVATOR WORLD proudly announces the 2025 Project of the Year winners. Expert teams from Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and the U.K. emerged victorious by successfully completing...

Dubai; photo by GizmoPhotography for Pixabay

Luxury Residential Demand Soars in Dubai

GHMC TO FLOAT TENDERS FOR FOB MAINTENANCE

GHMC To Float Tenders for FOB Maintenance

SHORTS INDUSTRIES ANNOUNCES TRADE PARTNERSHIP WITH BERNSTEIN LTD.

Shorts Industries Announces Trade Partnership With Bernstein Ltd.

(l-r) Dr. Ahmed Shalaby, co-founder, president and CEO of Tatweer Misr and João Penedo, Otis senior vice president for Iberia, Africa and the Middle East, during the signing of the agreement; image courtesy of Otis

Otis Partners With Tatweer Misr for Six Projects in Egypt

CAUTION URGED AFTER FATAL ESCALATOR FALL IN CANADA

Caution Urged After Fatal Escalator Fall in Canada