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51-Story Hotel With Schindler Vt System Tops Out In Hudson Yards
Construction has topped out at 450 Eleventh Avenue in NYC’s Hudson Yards, which will be home to a 51-story, 379-room Aloft Hotel served by a Schindler vertical-transportation system, New York YIMBY reported...
AKE Supplies VT Units for Gebze-Darica Metro Line
Antalya-based AKE has signed a contract for 165 units, including 108 escalators, 10 moving walks and 47 elevators, for the Gebze-Darıca Metro Line Project in Kocaeli. The line, which will...
Our Choices Determine Our Future
I used the same sentence in one of my articles in this column before, if you remember. I highlight it again: “The ballot box brought in front of the voters...
Aegean Elevator Industrialists Meet for a Breakfast
Aegean Elevator and Escalator Industrialists Association (EAYSAD) members held their well-attended traditional breakfast on October 2, 2021, which had been put under a lengthy postponement due to the pandemic. Sabih...
Validity of Payment Notices and Severability of Adjudication Decisions
by Thomas Salter In the recent case of Downs Road Development LLP v. Laxmanbhai Construction (UK) Ltd. [2021], the Technology & Construction Court considered issues concerning the validity of payment...
Fire and Earthquake Symposium Held in Izmir
The Internationally Attended Fire and Earthquake Symposium and Exhibition, organized by TMMOB Chamber of Mechanical Engineers Izmir Branch, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Fire Department and Chambers affiliated with TMMOB, was held...
Renovation of High-Rise Buildings
CTBUH Turkey organized an online webinar on “Renewal of High-Rise Buildings” in September 2021 via Zoom. At an event moderated by Architect Buğrahan Şirin from PP Architects, CTBUH Turkey Representative...
First Of Two Elevators At Miami Tower Repaired
One of two broken elevators at an 18-story Miami apartment building was repaired on November 23, after the two had been broken down for days, NBC6 South Florida reported. The units, which...
Glasgow High Rise Plans Change
A mixed-use development near Glasgow’s George Street has gained planning approval with final plans including a 20-story tower that will now house rental flats instead of a 272-room student housing...
Elevator Work Continues In Brooke County Courthouse
Crews are working to replace the elevator of the county courthouse in Wellsburg, West Virginia, The Weirton Daily Times reported on November 24. The Brooke County Commission held a meeting in a...
