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TSSA Gathering Final Feedback Before New Website Launch

As part of its digital modernization efforts to enhance efficiency of doing business, Ontario, Canada’s not-for-profit regulator Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) is preparing to launch a new website...

Alimak and Torre de Collserola Partner To Modernize Historic Barcelona Elevators

Sweden's Alimak Group recently announced it is partnering with Torre de Collserola — a project of historic significance in Barcelona, Spain — to modernize the two Alimak elevators initially installed...

Served by Otis VT, NYC’s the Spiral Wins CTBUH and Marks Firsts

Bjarke Ingels Group's (BIG) first supertall and first commercial high rise in NYC, The Spiral on the northern edge of the High Line at 66 Hudson Boulevard, was recently named...

CiA Invites Discussion on CANopen and AI at SPS Tradeshow

The nonprofit CAN in Automation (CiA) association invites discussion about AI and CANopen at its booth at the SPS (Smart Production Solutions) tradeshow in Nuremberg, Germany, on November 14-16. CANopen...

Otis China Contracts Highlighted During 3Q Earnings Call

Two major contracts in China were among those highlighted by Otis President and CEO Judy Marks during a 3rd Quarter 2023 earnings call on October 25. In the Hong Kong...

Caltech Lifts Wins Family Business Award on Heels of 45th Anniversary

Caltech Lifts has been named Best Dundee-based Family Business of the Year in The Courier Business Awards 2023 days after it celebrated its 45th birthday. The family firm, founded in...

Sweden’s Cibes Lift Group Acquires Connecticut-Based ESC

Cibes Lift Group, a leading manufacturer of screw-driven, modular platform lifts headquartered in Gävle, Sweden, has acquired Elevator Service Co., Inc. (ESC), based in Torrington, Connecticut, and serving the Connecticut,...

Designs in the Works for London’s Fourth-Tallest Tower

RSHP is working up designs for a “landmark” 240-m-tall, 54-story skyscraper, which would be the Square Mile’s fourth-tallest tower, to replace contractor Multiplex Europe’s headquarters at 99 Bishopsgate in London,...

Dubai Resort Named CTBUH Best Tall Building MENA

Atlantis The Royal Resort on Palm Jumeirah Island in Dubai, U.A.E., was named the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2023 Best Tall Building, Middle East and North...

Otis To Provide 15 Elevators for New Burnaby Master-Planned Community

Otis President and CEO Judy Marks announced during a third quarter 2023 earnings call on October 25 that the company has been contracted to provide seven SkyRise® and eight Gen3TM...

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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