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Delays in Elevator Registration in India

Nearly two months after the Uttar Pradesh government in India introduced the Lift and Escalator Rules, 2024, for elevator safety, none of the 80,000 lifts across 350 Noida high-rise building...

KJA Hires Macfadyen as National Account Executive

KJA Consultants, part of ATIS Ascenda Partners, announced it has named Christina Macfadyen as national account executive. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Macfadyen started her new job in November. She joined...

KONE India Launches Smart Elevator Series at ISEE Event

KONE India unveiled its I MonoSpace® SMART, KONE I MiniSpace™ and KONE A MonoSpace SMART elevators at the International Sourcing Exposition (ISEE) for Elevators in India, Realty+ reports. These models are the...

Registration Now Open For Elevcon 2025 in Lisbon

Registration for Elevcon 2025, the 24th International Congress on Vertical-Transportation (VT) Technologies, in Lisbon, Portugal, on June 17-19, 2025, is now open. The leading congress for the elevator and VT...

Residential Elevators Announces NAHB IBS for 2025

Residential Elevators announced the NAHB International Builders' Show (IBS), the largest annual light construction show in the world, will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 25-27, 2025. Attendees...

Otis Listed Among America’s Most Responsible Companies

Otis Worldwide Corp., the global elevator and escalator company headquartered in Farmington, Connecticut, announced on December 4 it has been named to Newsweek’s list of America’s Most Responsible Companies for 2025. The annual...

ECNY Announces 2025 Scholarship Program

The Elevator Conference of New York (ECNY) has announced its 2025 scholarship program, which will offer a minimum of two US$5,000 scholarships to high school seniors who are graduating in...

Axxiom Elevator Appoints McCracken as CFO

Axxiom Elevator, a rapidly expanding independent elevator services company doing business in Arizona, California, Florida and the Washington, D.C., area, announced on December 5 it appointed Cody McCracken as chief...

32 New Elevators to be Installed in Maldives Towers

Managing Director of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) of the Maldives Fazul Rasheed announced that two elevators will be installed in each tower of the Hiyaa flats in Hulhumalé, one...

Broken Escalators at London DLR Station Spark Anger

All four escalators connecting the three floors of the Cutty Sark Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in south-east London have been broken for the past two months, sparking anger among...

SEA-LEVEL RISE THREATENS NEW YORK HOUSING AND TALL BUILDINGS

Sea-Level Rise Threatens NYC Housing and Tall Buildings

HOUSTON SENIOR APARTMENT COMPLEX SUFFERING ELEVATOR BREAKDOWNS

Houston Senior Apartment Complex Suffering Elevator Breakdowns

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Otis Appoints Armas as President U.S. and Canada

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Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus