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City of Angels bustles with tall-building construction.

Biggest Construction Boom Since 1920s Underway Metropolis, a megaproject with four towers; Wilshire Grand (the West Coast’s tallest building) and Circa, a pair of 35-story luxury apartment towers: all are...

A Family Repair Affair

EMR keeps the Mid Atlantic’s motors running. Family-owned and -operated companies are big business in the U.S. It has been estimated that by 2017, 40% of family business owners expect...

Tall Stories in the Big Apple

Elevator entrances reach new heights in 3 WTC, and 10 and 35 Hudson Yards. Twenty-foot-high elevator entrances? At first blush, this sounds like the stuff of imagination or a futuristic...

Buildings 3 and 26

Day Elevator & Lift provides accessibility in Brooklyn complex. Industry City is designed to be a creative hub. This network of 16 buildings lies on the banks of the East...

Champion of the Industry

For David Smarte, recipient of the William C. Sturgeon Distinguished Service Award 2016, education and safety go hand in hand. When he was growing up in Ocean City, Maryland, David...

Melbourne, Sydney see tower plans, topping out.

Linked 70-Story Towers for Melbourne’s CBD SP Setia hopes to build a pair of 70-story, 254-m-tall towers linked by a curving skybridge at 308 Exhibition Street in the central business...

Europe’s Slimmest Residential Tower on Tap in Rotterdam

Dutch firm Powerhouse Co., in partnership with RED Co., Being Development and Martens Construction, aims to start construction this year on the 150-m-tall, 47-story Baan Tower in Rotterdam, the Netherlands,...

Mediterra Invests in Turkey’s Arkel

Mediterra Capital, a private equity investor of leading companies in Turkey’s elevator-technology sector, has bought a majority stake in Arkel. Arkel has been developing elevator safety, comfort, electronic-control and motor-driver...

Manchester, London are sites of future tall buildings.

Tallest Buildings in U.K. Outside London Rising Owen Street, consisting of four buildings ranging from 37 to 64 stories, is being developed by Renaker Build in Manchester, skyscrapernews.com reported. Upon...

Final Two Skyscrapers for Moscow City

Renaissance Development aims to complete Neva Towers, the final two skyscrapers in Moscow’s International Business Center (Moscow City), by 2019, ArchDaily reported. Designed by a team consisting of HOK and...

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

Herrmann

In Memoriam: Tim Herrmann

Armas

Otis Appoints Armas as President U.S. and Canada

Example of Mogilevliftmash elevator interior; image courtesy of Mogilevliftmash

Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus