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Cesarz to Accept Efficiency Award for thyssenkrupp’s MULTI thyssenkrupp MULTI CEO Michael Cesarz plans to accept the Alliance to Save Energy’s 2018 “Stars of Energy Efficiency Award: Built Environment” during...
News from New York YIMBY: Lower East Side emerges as hotspot as towers rise and are planned across the boroughs.
Hotel in Hudson Yards Across From Javits Center Planned Atria Builders has filed a permit to build a 43-story, 487-ft.-tall hotel for Flushing-based Marx Development Group at 450 Eleventh Avenue...
Echo Brickell Welcomes Residents in Miami
Private elevators are among amenities at the Carlos A. Ott-designed Echo Brickell, a 57-story, 180-unit tower (ELEVATOR WORLD, January 2017) that SkyRise Cities said is now home to approximately 300...
Tallest Building West of the Mississippi Planned in L.A.
Shenzhen New World Group and Dimarzio | Kato Architecture hope to build a 77-story, 1,100-ft.-tall mixed-use tower at 333 South Figueroa Street in Los Angeles that would strip the Wilshire...
Big plans in Houston, Dallas
Hines’ New HQ to Be Striking Addition to Houston Skyline Developer Hines and architect Pelli Clarke Pelli, the team behind Salesforce Tower in San Francisco (ELEVATOR WORLD, August 2017), now...
GAL, SCS add employees.
GAL Names Curzon Vice President of Marketing & Sales John Curzon of Southampton, U.K., has been named vice president of Marketing & Sales for the Bronx, New York-based GAL Manufacturing...
Acquisitions and contracts
Otis Tapped for 200-Plus-Unit Project in Las Vegas Malaysia’s Genting Group, owner of Resorts World Las Vegas, has hired Otis to provide more than 200 units for its new US$4-...
CANopen Lift Plugfest and SIG Meeting
CAN in Automation (CiA) members met on March 13-14 in Nuremburg, Germany, to discuss the CiA 417 application profile and test their CANopen Lift products on interoperability. CiA reports CiA...
Statistics, orders and tall-building progress
Source: China Has Capacity to Supply the World In the 40 years since China opened its economy to the world, global elevator companies have rushed in, transforming the country from...
ZHA’s “Masterpiece” With Otis Atrium Elevators Debuts in Macau
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) celebrated the opening of the 40-story Morpheus hotel in Macau (ELEVATOR WORLD, June 2014) on June 15. Part of the City of Dreams resort, the structure...
