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Towers for residents and medical offices, and an acquisition

48-Story Mixed-Use Tower for Medical Center Houston-based Medistar Corp. plans to build the 48-story Innovation Tower containing medical office space, and potentially residences, in the Texas Medical Center on Main...

Hotels, mixed-use, affordable housing on the drawing boards.

Construction Underway on Two Times Square Hotels Work is well underway on two new high-rise hotels in New York City’s (NYC) Times Square. The first, a Hard Rock Hotel at...

Changing roles, an airport contract and an achievement

TateossianPromotedto Senior VP of NEIP at HUB Tateossian John Tateossian has been promoted to senior vice president of the National Elevator Insurance Program (NEIP) of HUB International Ltd. Previously serving...

Art Plaza by Melo Group in downtown Miami

Foster + Partners Wins Prestigious Commission in Shenzhen Foster + Partners beat competitors including Mecanoo and Skidmore Owings & Merrill to design a 350-m-tall tower on the waterfront in Shenzhen...

VT units for big projects in Mumbai, Chennai and New Delhi

Johnson Lifts/SJEC Supplying 205 Escalators to MMRC Stations Mumbai Metro Rail Corp. (MMRC) has awarded a contract to Johnson Lifts Pvt. Ltd. India and M/s SJEC Corp. China Consortium to...

Possible impacts of Brexit, personnel changes for thyssenkrupp and SVM Associates

Brexit May Pose Difficulties for Manufacturers Many types of products may only be marketed within the European Economic Area (EEA) if they are provided with a CE mark, but with...

Tenders let for all kinds of industry equipment around the world.

thyssenkrupp Largest Order to Date in Bahrain Sixteen thyssenkrupp elevators and two escalators were installed in the 200-m-tall United Tower in Manama, Bahrain, representing the company’s largest order to date...

Worldwide news from Serapid, Biofial and Wittur

Serapid Opens Asian Subsidiary in Singapore Serapid Group, headquartered in France, has opened Serapid Singapore Pte. Ltd. due to an increasing volume of work in the Asian region. A management...

45-Story Apartment Tower Planned in Downtown Austin

Houston-based developer the Hanover Co. plans to build a 504-ft .-tall, 45-story apartment tower in downtown Austin, Texas, at Fift h and Lavaca streets in the historic warehouse district, Towers...

Big Apple activity continues apace.

Macklowe’s Towering Ambition: City’s Tallest by Roof Height The New York Times got the scoop in January on what would be New York City’s (NYC) tallest building by roof height...

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KONE Appoints Wen As EVP Procurement and Board Member

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Husband Appointed Incoming CECA Supplier Director

Panoramic MRL elevators serve the new CKG terminal; image courtesy of TKE.

TKE Supplies 102 VT Units For New CKG Terminal in China

(l-r) John Stopes, Johannes de Jong and Michiel de Moel at the signing ceremony

Elevating Studio and The VT Studio Join Forces

Sobha Central; image courtesy of Sobha Realty

Sobha Realty Launches Major New Dubai Development