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Upcoming Elevator U Webinars
Elevator U, an organization that supports and encourages the exchange of ideas and information relative to vertical transportation in academic facilities, invites all members, potential members and industry suppliers to...
NYC Cancer Center Planned by Memorial Sloan Kettering
A planned medical tower on the Upper East Side, Manhattan, NYC, will bring a 31-story pavilion known as Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center, the organization group, Patch reports. The...
Design Sets Style for Two-in-One Southern China Hotel
A two-hotel project going up on Hainan island in southern China will include a “hanging gardens” design that can be experienced by guests at the 160-m tower, dezeen reports. Designed...
NYCHA Tenant Seeks Better Communication About Elevators
Ramona Minor, a great-grandmother who lives in the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) De Hostos houses on NYC’s Upper West Side, wants better communication from the authority about maintenance...
CTBUH Announces 2022 Best Tall Building Award of Excellence Winners
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced the 2022 Best Tall Building Award of Excellence winners in various building-height categories and in the office, mixed-use and residential/hotel...
Large Transit Project Design Approved for Shenzhen
Aedas, a designer group working in Shenzhen, China, with China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group and Shenzhen Urban Transport Consortium, has won the plan for Qingshuihe Comprehensive Transportation Hub,...
Boston Guest and Resident Tower Tops Out
Work on the 35-story project Raffles Boston Back Bay Hotel & Residences has reached the top of the structure, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) reports. The...
In Memoriam: Janet M. Donoghue
The elevator industry mourns the loss of Janet M. Donoghue, who is survived by her husband of 47 years, Edward A. Donoghue, a longtime ELEVATOR WORLD collaborator, American Society of...
ATIS Opens Offices in Iowa, Ohio and Wisconsin
American Testing and Inspection Services (ATIS), the St. Louis-based elevator management, inspection and consulting company, has opened new offices in Des Moines, Iowa; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Madison, Wisconsin, ATIS announced...
Vancouver Station to Get New Vertical-Transportation Equipment
TransLink, operator of SkyTrain rail station at Brentwood Town Centre, Vancouver, Canada, is set to add escalators, a new elevator, more space and better connections, Mass Transit reports. The station...
