[…] the elevator every year to look for a non-existent hatch, because they remember it from American movies. The longest entrapment in Germany lasted 10 days; the person died. In Tokyo, Japan, water and toilets must be kept in elevators because 17,000 trapped people cannot be freed in a short time after earthquakes. The VDI […]
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[…] room: (local des machines) (Triebwerksraum): A room in which machine or machines and/or the associated equipment are placed. 3. DEFINITIONS: Pulley space: (Emplacement de poulies) (Aufstellungsort von Seilrollen): space(s) inside or outside of the well where pulleys are placed. Machinery space: (Emplacement de machinerie) (Aufstellungsort von Triebwerk und Steuerung): space(s) inside […]
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[…] London Fire Brigade dispatched four units, the first arriving at 7:42. At 7:45, the fire erupted from the escalator well into the crowded Ticket Hall. Thirty-one people died, including a fire officer, and with one victim only identified some 16 years later. The start of the fire was attributed to the ignition of accumulated […]
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Before she died in 2015, Mary Faith Young longed to see the installation of an elevator within a courthouse built in 1883 in Jamestown, North Dakota, The Jamestown Sun reports. A building closed for nearly 40 years, it was set to reopen just a few months after her death. If she were she still […]
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A closer look at Egypt’s construction boom and what it means for VT companies
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After more than a two-year delay, the Indian state Kerala’s longest foot-over-bridge (FoB) at East Fort in Thiruvananthapuram is nearly set to be commissioned, The New Indian Express says. The official opening of the FoB is set for the second week of May, with some artistic touches to be completed. The official day will be…
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Permits have been filed for a 26-story mixed-use building at 69 Adams Street in Brooklyn, New York, New York YIMBY reports. Rafael Rabinowitz, under Galaxy Developers LLC, is listed as the owner behind the applications. The proposed 280-ft-tall development will yield 258,200 ft2, with 156,122 ft2designated for residential space and 102,078 ft2 for commercial space. The building will…
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[…] Verlag, Berlin, 2nd edition, revised and expanded, 2000. Feyrer, Klaus. Laufende Drahtseile, Benennung und Überwachung. Renningen – Malmsheim: expert Verlag, 2nd edition, completely revised, 1998. Holeschak, Wolfgang. Die Lebensduaer von Aufzugseilen und Treibscheiben im Praktischen Drahtseil. Dissertation, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Mechanical Handling, 1987. Thiemann, Hans. Aufzüge – Betrieb, Wartung und […]
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[…] for 3 h. Another study indicates the virus environmental stability half-life is 1 h, meaning for a quantity of virus cells, in 1 h, half will have died in aerosol form. Consideration of the time to inactivation must be a consideration in an elevator. Claims of viral inactivation efficacy by any manufacturer must only […]
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VT growth made possible by a set of economic sectors remaining on a growth trajectory.
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