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Additional VT Units Among India’s DMRC Crowd-Control Measures

Installing additional elevators, escalators and moving walks at busy rail stations is among measures being undertaken by India’s Delhi Metro Rail Corp. (DMRC) to handle surging crowds, The Economic Times reports. The...

Ministry of Health Replacing Six Elevators in Hospital in Fiji

The Ministry of Health and Medical Services in Fiji has begun the FJD1 million (US$427,541) process of replacing six elevators at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva, fijivillage News reports. Minister...

KONE BoD Members Elected After AGM

At a meeting held after the Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Helsinki, Finland, on March 5, the KONE Board of Directors (BoD) elected from among its members Antti Herlin as...

Otis MRL Elevators for Dubai Luxury Residential Project

Working with general contractor Naresco Contracting LLC, Otis provided 13 machine-room-less (MRL) Gen2® elevators for Torino by ORO24, a new luxury residential development in Arjan, Dubai, Otis Director of Sales &...

The Arch 22 in Banjul, Gambia, Receiving an Elevator for its 60th Anniversary

The Director General of the National Center for Arts and Culture Hassoum Ceesay has announced that the Arch 22 in Banjul, Gambia, will receive an elevator as part of the...

Number of NJ Transit VT Incidents Climbs by 12%

In 2024, NJ Transit experienced 2,725 elevator and escalator incidents at train stations, representing an increase of 12.3% over 2023, when there were 2,426 incidents, Asbury Park Press reports. Incidents include such...

TKE to Modernize Three Elevators in County Government Buildings in Kansas

In Kansas’s Riley County, a modernization project for three government building elevators was approved on February 27, News-Press Now reports. A 2023 inspection revealed that elevators in the courthouse, the Carnegie building...

Schindler India Extends Partnership With HOWL Digital

Mumbai, India-headquartered digital marketing agency HOWL Digital announced it has extended its partnership with Schindler India on March 4. Now in its fourth year, the partnership "aims to drive conversations...

Hotel Owners in Montenegro Donate Elevator to Kotor Clinical Hospital Center

Co-owners of the Montenegro Stars hotel group, Žarko Radulović and Ljudmila Ivanjenko, donated an electric elevator worth EUR67,000 (US$69,468) to the Kotor Clinical Hospital Center, Vijesti reports. The new elevator replaced the previous elevator...

New U.K. Lift and Escalator Apprenticeship Standard Approved

The U.K.’s Lift and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA) Employer Group has announced that the sector’s flagship apprenticeship has been officially approved by the Secretary of State and the Institute of Apprenticeships and...

Deyaar's Downtown Residences; image courtesy of Deyaar

Deyaar Unveils Dubai Downtown Residences Project

The wooden escalator; image © TfL

Last Wooden Escalator in London Underground to be Replaced by Elevator

North America, which requires larger elevators, has some of the most expensive elevator costs in the world, according to the Saanich Council; photo by Martin Pechy via Wikimedia Commons.

Saanich Calls for British Columbia to Allow Smaller Elevators

3rd Avenue-149th street Station; image courtesy of LiftComm

LiftComm Enhances NYC MTA Station Elevator Safety, Security

CEO of EngineeringUK Dr. Hilary Leevers

EngineeringUK CEO Reacts To U.K. 2025 Spending Review