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“Show-Stopping” Office Tower Rising Outside Paris
What is being described by anchor tenant Saint-Gobain as a “show-stopping” 39-story, 178-m-tall office tower, designed by Valode & Pistre Architects, is rising just west of the Paris city limits...
Singapore Moves to Address Manpower Shortage
Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is addressing the need to hire 1,000 new vertical-transportation technicians in the next three years by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with industry...
thyssenkrupp Wins Italy Metro Station Maintenance Contracts
thyssenkrupp has been selected by Azienda Trasporti Milanesi and Azienda Napoletana Mobilita (ANM) to maintain 585 units in metro stations in Milan and Naples, Italy, respectively. The multiyear contracts cover...
Continent’s tall-building activity on upswing.
Multiple Residential Towers Planned in South Melbourne Salvo Property Group has acquired the land and permits to build 46-, 43-, 27- and 21-story residential towers at 60-82 Johnston Street in...
OEM plans to expand, and a goal is achieved.
Hyundai Adding India Office, Plans Turkey Plant Hyundai Elevator Co. of South Korea plans to acquire or build a factory in Turkey, having entered the market last year, South Korean...
The London Tube, towers and a controversial plan
Avire Light Curtains for Tube’s First Inclined Lift The first inclined lift in the London Tube has been outfitted with Memco Panachrome light curtains from Avire. The company also supplied...
Toronto, Montreal among tall-building hotspots.
Plan for Trio of Toronto Towers Advances Lanterra Developments’ scaled-back plan for a trio of towers in downtown Toronto between St. Patrick and Simcoe streets has, for the most part,...
More Towers on the Way
Other tall buildings proposed/underway in big cities around the nation. Redevelopment of L.A. Times Complex Plans for redevelopment of the L.A. Times headquarters in downtown Los Angeles includes building multiple...
High rises proposed at the Loop, riverfront, Greektown.
Dueling Plans for Replacing Chicago’s Thompson Center There are dueling plans in Chicago to replace the state-owned, Helmut Jahn-designed James R. Thompson Center at the Loop, one of which involves...
ECS, TEI make important personnel moves.
ECS Hires Two Key Managers ECS Corp., headquartered in Broadview, Illinois, has hired Tony DiLegge as Operations manager and Cathy Hayat as Marketing manager. DiLegge joins ECS with experience including...
