Atlanta

Elevator Death Prompts Proposed Tougher Law In Georgia

The death of a teenager in an Atlanta elevator has Georgia state lawmakers pushing a law that will increase the penalty fee on past-due repairs, WRDW reports. The teen, hoping to...

TKE Debuts North American HQ With IQC And Test Tower In Atlanta

TK Elevator (TKE) formally opened its new North American headquarters at The Battery (home of Major League Baseball’s Atlanta Braves) on February 9 with facility tours, speeches by dignitaries including...

Test tower façade is reimagined, and towers are planned near a MARTA station.

thyssenkrupp Test Tower Design Revised Updated renderings of the thyssenkrupp Innovation and Qualification Center (IQC), which includes the tallest elevator test tower in the Western Hemisphere (ELEVATOR WORLD, November 2019,...

US$5-Billion “City Within a City” Greenlit in Atlanta

One of “the most ambitious and controversial” developments in Atlanta history was greenlit by the City Council in November 2018, The Architect’s Newspaper was among outlets to report. Comparable in...

Atlanta’s Tallest Residential Building on Tap

What promises to be Atlanta’s tallest residential tower, a 53-story glass structure designed by Perkins+Will, is planned as part of the 4.5-acre, mixed-use development Opus Place in Midtown, the Robb...

Atlanta Project to Include 32-Story Office Tower

Atlanta-based Selig Development Corp. aims to start construction by the middle of the year on a mixed-use development that includes a 32-story office tower, Shopping Center Business reported. The US$400-million...

222 Broadway; photo © John W. Cahill for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat

TEI Group Repositions Elevators for Major NYC Conversion

ARCHI-TREAD RELOCATING FROM N.J. TO FLORIDA

Archi-Tread Relocating From N.J. to Florida

Entrance to the Victoria Building, which was built in 1945; photo by SnowyBadger for Wikipedia

Halifax Hospital to Get Elevator Replacement, Upgrades

Stationslift Storingen, a website for reporting broken elevators, was created in response to the structural problem by wheelchair user Kasrt Lovers; image courtesy of X.

Out-of-Order Lifts at Dutch Train Stations Leave Wheelchair Users Stranded

FUJITEC EXPLAINS NEW STRATEGY CENTERED AROUND DIGITAL TWIN CONCEPT

Fujitec Explains New Strategy Centered Around Digital Twin Concept