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Construction Begins on Baan Tower in the Netherlands

Construction has begun on Baan Tower in the remodeled Baan Quarter neighborhood of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Arch Daily reports. Seven years after the original draft, the project has recently...

Schindler Appoints President & CEO for India/South Asia

Schindler announced the appointment of Nitin Chalke as the president and CEO for India and South Asia. He rejoins Schindler after more than a decade at Eaton and will be...

Finland Participates in COP28 With Its Own Pavilion For First Time

Finland, a leader in the race toward carbon neutrality, participated in the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as COP28, at Expo City in Dubai on November 30-December...

EESF AGM Planned for March

The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on March 5-7, 2024, in Tampa, Florida. Board members will meet at Hyatt House/Hyatt Place Tampa Downtown...

VDA Hires Associate Consultant

VDA, Inc. (VDA) recently hired Tim Hind in the role of associate consultant. Hind has more than 20 years of experience in the vertical-transportation industry. Most recently, he was branch...

Inovance Expands India Presence With New Noida Office

Chennai-headquartered Inovance Technology India, the Indian arm of global industrial automation specialist Inovance, announced on December 11 the inauguration of a new office in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. The 1,100-m2...

KEB America Releases DL4 Servo Motors in North America

Shakopee, Minnesota-based KEB America, Inc., a subsidiary of KEB Automation KG, recently announced that its DL4 series of brushless servo motors is now available to OEMs across North America. KEB’s...

ASME A17 Meeting To Be Held in January

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) A17 Committee will meet on January 8-11, 2024, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The hotel selected for the meeting is the Hyatt Centric French...

EAOF Holds Golf Outing, Quarterly Meeting

The Elevator Association of Florida (EAOF) held its second annual golf outing on December 4. The sold-out tournament took place at The Savannahs Golf Course on Merritt Island, Florida, and...

Champion Elevator Wins HOBI Award

Champion Elevator Corp., an independently owned, full-service elevator company with locations in New York and Connecticut, recently announced that it is part of the team that won a Home Building...

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Cooper Announced as CIBSE President Elect for 2025/26

Internal structure of the elevator smart maintenance system; image courtesy of N2 Infotech

N2 Infotech Launches AI Predictive-Maintenance Solution

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Stannah to Support STEM Program at NMRN

TenBerke Architects designed the proposed supertall; image via New York YIMBY.

Construction Plans and Rendering of Brooklyn Tower Revealed

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Company Chosen to Repair Elevators in Odesa