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Mixed-Use Towers To Replace Chicago Flour Mill
Developer Sterling Bay is planning to redevelop the site of the former Archer Daniels Midland flour mill, on the western edge of the Fulton Market District in Chicago, with a...
Fall From Escalator In Russia Leads To Serious Injuries
A 17-year-old girl fell from an escalator in a shopping center on Prospekt Mira in Moscow Russia, injuring her face and head and damaging her liver and spleen, MK reported on November...
TASFED Opens Its Third Academy In Kayseri
Turkey Elevator Industrialists Federation (TASFED) opened the third of the Elevator Academies at Kayseri Ayşe Baldöktü Vocational Training Center in Turkey on November 11. The first two previously opened in...
Final Video Of “Liftinstituut Expert Sessions” Now Available
"Liftinstituut Expert Sessions” online videos Episode 4, “IoT (Internet of Things) in the Elevator Industry” is now available at liftinstituut.com/knowledge-center. The fourth video of this series, with Managing Director John van...
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...
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...
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...
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...
