Texas

Ground Broken on Texas’ Tallest Building

Kohn Pedersen Fox has designed a 311-m mixed-use tower in downtown Austin that will become Texas’ tallest building when it opens in late 2026, Arch Daily reports. Targeting LEED Gold...

Kings III Acquired by Arcline Investment Management

Kings III, a Coppell, Texas-based provider of emergency monitoring solutions for elevator and other systems across North America, has been acquired by Arcline Investment Management, a private equity firm with...

Elevators at Tower Shut Down Amid Structural Safety Concerns

Structural safety concerns about the 33-story The Royalton at River Oaks condominium tower in Houston west of downtown prompted city officials to pull its occupancy permit and suddenly evacuate residents...

Elevator Sill Solutions by Archi-Tread Opens Texas Facility

Scott Akin, owner of New Jersey-based Archi-Tread, Inc., recently announced the opening of an Elevator Sills Solutions (ESS) by Archi-Tread facility in Rosenberg, Texas. The 15,000-ft2 manufacturing and warehouse facility...

Texas Courthouse Upgrade Considerations Include Elevator

At a meeting of the Presidio County Commissioners Court in Texas in June, William Helm of In*Situ Architecture in El Paso gave a presentation, part of a larger discussion on...

TKE Elevator Modernization at Historic Texas Tower

TK Elevator (TKE) is modernizing six elevators at the historic ALICO office building in Waco, Texas, a 111-year-old, 282-ft-tall structure that was once the tallest U.S. building west of the...

PEAK ELEVATOR PARTS Opens Dallas Distribution Center

PEAK ELEVATOR PARTSTM celebrated the opening of its Dallas distribution center on May 13 with a grand opening. PEAK ELEVATOR PARTS is a division of privately owned PEAK ELEVATORTM, which...

20-Story Luxury Apartment Tower Planned in Houston

El Paso, Texas-based Hunt Cos. and Dallas-based StreetLights Residential announced plans on May 2 for a 20-story luxury apartment building at 1717 Bissonnet Street in Houston, Community Impact Newspaper reports....

San Antonio Developer Plans New High-Rise Apartment

Work is getting underway for a 32-story apartment development designer Western Urban plans in San Antonio, Texas, MYSA reports. The construction, launched under Dallas-based builder Rogers-O'Brien Construction, is set to...

Texas Courthouse to Replace Elevator

Grayson County officials recently approved spending US$450,000 on an elevator replacement project for the public elevators at the Grayson County Courthouse in Sherman, Texas, the HeraldDemocrat reports. The funds needed...

HITACHI ELEVATOR TO FOCUS ON SMART BUILDING IN CHINA

Hitachi Elevator to Focus on Smart Building in China

(l-r) Todd Christensen and Craig Clabaugh

Metro Elevator Opens in Office in Iowa

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Passion for Acting Leads to VT Career

The extension will include three new stations; image courtesy of Otis.

Otis Taiwan to Supply 65 VT Units for MRT Extension

Different views of the proposed tower; images courtesy of RSHP

54-Story City of London Tower Approved