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42-Story Shanghai Tower Now Complete
U.K.-based Foster + Partners has completed a 200-m, 42-story skyscraper in Shanghai, China, that is part of a drive to attract development toward the city’s eastern quarter, Building Design reports....
NYC MTA: “Deficient” GC Creates Problems for Elevator Project
Forte Construction Corp., a general contractor (GC) the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) describes as “deficient in supplying the contract-required documents to move items to completion” is at least partly...
KONE Elevators India Named to Top Manufacturing Workplace List
KONE Elevators India, a fully owned subsidiary of KONE Corp., announced that it has been recognized by Great Place To Work® India among India's Best Workplaces™ in Manufacturing 2023, Business...
12 Rescued From Elevator in the Philippines
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) announced firefighters rescued 12 people who were trapped inside an elevator in a commercial building in San Juan City in the Philippines on January...
Elevator Fall in India Results in Death
A 70-year-old man died and three others were injured when an elevator collapsed from the fourth floor of a commercial building in Vadodara, India, on January 28, The Indian Express...
MESA Searching for Scholarship Recipients
Massachusetts Elevator Safety Association (MESA) has begun the search for recipients of the 2023 G. Gahr Finney Memorial Scholarship for high school seniors, and will take applications through May 1....
TKE Providing 16 Elevators for New Cleveland Medical Building
TK Elevator (TKE) is providing 16 overhead traction elevators for the new Cleveland Clinic Neurological Center on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The 400,000-ft2 building will bring together services currently...
ECNY, NAESA to Present Continuing-Education Seminar in April
Elevator Conference of New York (ECNY) and NAESA International plan to present a continuing-education, one-day seminar for ECNY members in good standing on April 18 or April 19. From 7...
Hospital Robots Launched in Washington State
MultiCare Health Systems has deployed four Moxi robotic units at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington, as errand-runners, The Spokesman-Review reports. The “nurse robots” won’t interact with patients or go into...
Pilot Program Uses EV Battery Power to Run Elevators
Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. and Hitachi Building Systems Co. Ltd., a Hitachi Ltd. Subsidiary, have announced a plan to roll out a system to keep elevators running during...
