News
A Stroll Through Elevator History
Jane’s Walk participants take a tour of Toronto’s vertical landscape. Editor’s Note Old Toronto is the heart of Canada’s largest urban center and offers some of the metro’s finest examples...
Elevator Geek, Alberta Outdoorsman
In this Industry Profile, KJA Western Canada Manager Scot Harvey talks about his unusual path to the VT industry, his busy job and life on his ranch. To mark his...
CECA 2018
Without a hitch” is the perfect way to describe the 44th Annual Canadian Elevator Contractors Association (CECA) Convention in Calgary, Alberta, on May 29-June 1 at Hyatt Regency Calgary, as...
Large mall contract let; milestone reached at Dubai Marina.
KONE to Equip Dubai Hills Mall With 156 Units KONE has been selected to outfit Dubai Hills Mall with 88 escalators, two inclined moving walks and 66 elevators. Being developed...
Tallest Hotel in Cuba Planned Despite Criticism
A real-estate subsidiary of GAESA, the military consortium in Cuba, could break ground in September on a 154-m-tall, 42-story hotel in Havana that would be Cuba’s tallest hotel, the Council...
Railway units on the way; 81-story building elevator contract let.
214 Escalators Planned for India’s CR DNA India reported in April that India’s Central Railways’ (CR) suburban section will soon have fully functional escalators at every station, in accordance with...
If Built, Mixed-Use Tower Would Be Tallest in Moscow
If built, a 108-story, 405-m-tall mixed-use tower in the Moscow International Business Center, also known as Moscow City, would be Moscow’s tallest, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat...
Mexico City Looks to Get Another Tallest Building
Mexican development company Abilia plans to resume work on Reforma 432, an office building set to have 57 floors, the same as the city’s current tallest building, Torre Reforma (ELEVATOR...
KONE Academy opens in Petaling Jaya; striking architecture in George Town.
KONE Inaugurates Training Center KONE inaugurated KONE Academy in Petaling Jaya in March, describing it as the latest KONE training center to open exclusively for the Malaysian market. KONE CEO...
Denmark, Sweden to get high rises
Amenities Featured in Planned Stockholm Tower Architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron has designed its first building in Sweden, a 90-m-tall residential structure in Stockholm that World Architecture News said...
