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MESA Hears Presentations, Promotes Scholarship at Meeting
Members of the Massachusetts Elevator Safety Association (MESA) heard presentations and promoted the association's annual scholarship program during its February 14 meeting at Jake n JOES in Norwood, Massachusetts. Approximately...
CTBUH Accepting Submission for Inaugural EDI Award
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is accepting submissions for its inaugural Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Award, which will honor specific projects with achievements in EDI...
Milwaukee Tower To Be Tallest Mass Timber Building in U.S.
Revised plans for The Edison apartment tower in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will make it the tallest mass timber building in the U.S., Urban Milwaukee reports. Developed by Madison-based The Neutral Project...
KONE Elevators India Present Innovations at IETF
KONE Elevators India Managing Director Amit Gossain joined esteemed customers Sushil Malik and Rishi Kapoor of Sudivha Developers to inaugurate the KONE booth at the 25th International Engineering and Technology...
20 TKE Elevators for World’s Tallest Hotel in Dubai
TK Elevator (TKE) announced it provided 20 elevators, 15 of which are high speed, to Ciel, a 365-m-tall, 82-story tower designed by NORR Group that will become the tallest hotel...
AKE, Del Bo Provide 12 Escalators for Naples Underground Metro
AKE Aufzüge & Fahrtreppen, headquartered in Baesweiler, Germany, and the Naples office of Italy's Ascensori Del Bo are partnering to provide 12 escalators to the Naples underground metro system. Scheduled...
First Graduating Class of Sri Lanka Elevator Training Center Celebrated
With Sri Lanka's first elevator training center opening in April 2022, the first group to complete the Diploma in Elevator Training, which was formed by Aitken Spence Elevators (Pvt.) Ltd....
Ad Rail USA Awarded GBAC Star for Escalator Germ Prevention
Ad Rail USATM announced on February 14 it has been awarded the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) STARTM Registered Seal for its Safe 2 Touch program addressing escalator safety and...
BIG Unveils Skyscrapers to Join Shenzhen “Green Belt” Development
Danish architecture studio Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed the Qianhai Prisma Towers in Shenzhen, China, Dezeen reports. The two towers will be comprised of leaning volumes built on either...
Plans Submitted for Tower to Join Leeds Tower Cluster
U.K.-based Glenn Howells Architects has submitted plans to add a 45-story hexagonal tower to an emerging cluster of tall buildings in central Leeds, U.K., Building Design reports. The Wellington Square...
