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NAESA QEI Training and Certification to be Held in Multiple States

NAESA International is offering a four-day Qualified Elevator Inspector (QEI) Training Course with the QEI Certification Exam on the fifth day for individuals who meet the requirements to become QEI...

Lift Elevator Provides Units for New Bronx Building

Lift Elevator LLC, based in Mount Vernon, New York, tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided a pair of overhead traction elevators with Hollister-Whitney gearless machines and controllers from Elevator Systems, Inc....

Lift Industry Motorcycle Event Planned in Germany

After the success of past years' events, elevator industry motorcycle enthusiasts from Germany and beyond are again planning to gather for the BIKE 25 ride and networking event on August...

Almada Joins EL-ESCA as Latin America Territory Manager

EL-ESCA, a supplier of elevator and escalator components launched in 2024 by Mike Alcott and Patrick Bothwell, in February announced that Gustavo Almada of Mexico City, Mexico, has joined the...

KONE to Provide 28 Elevators for London Life-Science Campus

KONE announced on February 6 that it booked an order to supply a total of 28 elevators — 27 MonoSpace® 700 DX machine-room-less and one MonoSpace 500 DX high-performance units for...

Fire in Elevator Shaft Leads to Discovery of Body

Firefighters responded on February 4 to a fire outbreak in the elevator shaft of the International Congress Centrum (ICC) in Berlin, Germany, The Munich Eye reports. The fire was extinguished swiftly, but...

Hyundai Elevator Opens Welfare Café Employing People With Disabilities

Hyundai Group announced it has opened in-house welfare cafés that employs disabled people at major affiliates' workplaces, including Hyundai Elevator and Hyundai Movex in South Korea, TOPDaily reports. Hyundai Elevator opened the...

G-Tech Provides Elevators for New Brooklyn Tower

Linden, New Jersey-headquartered G-Tech Elevator Associates LLC tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided two elevators for 655 Union Street, a 13-story residential tower recently completed in Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY. The building...

Elevator U Issues Call for Papers for Austin Conference

Elevator U has issued a call for papers and reminds interested parties that registration is open for the 25th Annual Elevator U Conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, on June...

Illinois Garage to Get Modernized Elevator

Galesburg, Illinois, Aldermen unanimously approved nearly US$19,000 in Tax Increment Financing funding to cover a portion of the expense to modernize the elevator and replace the garage door at a...

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