Kuwait’s first public-use spiral escalators are installed in showy shopping space. Mitsubishi Electric Corp. unveiled Kuwait’s first spiral escalators for public use at the Phase-IV expansion of “The Avenues” shopping mall in Al-Rai, Kuwait. The pair of unique units, created with proprietary escalator technologies from Mitsubishi Electric, lend an atmosphere of architectural elegance and sophistication…
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Separately exploring use of a six-phase inductive motor and six-phase matrix converter in effort to boost reliability and efficiency of elevator drives by Davoud Karbalaei, Amir Bahram Daraei and Hossein Bakhtiari This article investigates the performance of multiphase motors for use as drives for traction elevators and shows their advantages when compared against three-phase motors.…
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KONE Wins 239-Escalator Order for Wuxi Metro Line 3 KONE is the latest OEM to win significant work providing the 28.5-km-long Wuxi Metro Line 3 with vertical-transportation equipment. Following a previous order to supply Wuxi Metro Line 2, this order consists of 99 TransitMasterTM and 140 heavy-duty escalators. Designed to meet the special requirements of…
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Numerical analysis of subsystems and passenger loads against the escalator truss in accordance with EN 115 is explained and demonstrated. Escalator trusses are manufactured for the installation of subsystems, such as the motor, gearbox and control panel. Every nonstandard truss deflection may affect other devices and decrease the life of parts and safety. Nonstandard deflection…
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Construction Underway on Country’s Future Tallest Construction is underway on the Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Centre, a 668-m-tall tower for Shenzhen. The height would exceed China’s current tallest building, the 632-m-tall Shanghai Tower, which is also the world’s second tallest, dezeen reported. Though several details, such as the architect, are unknown, the building is being…
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PT. Berca Schindler Wins 474-Unit Order in Indonesia PT. Berca Schindler Lifts, a joint venture between Central Cipta Murdaya Group and Jardine Schindler Group, has been awarded a contract to supply 118 Schindler 9300 escalators, 254 9500 moving walks and 102 freight elevators to Transmart Carrefour’s multimall developments across Indonesia. Transmart Carrefour projects will include…
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One-of-a-kind, record-breaking installation is an engineering and artistic marvel. submitted by Evelyne Lee, Otis Elevator Koreawritten by Hunil Kim, Otis Elevator Korea Since Elisha Graves Otis invented the first safety elevator more than 160 years ago, Otis has evolved to include passenger, freight and service units, and progressed from wooden interiors to all-glass cabs —…
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thyssenkrupp’s Role in Iconic New Chinese Bridge By this month, thyssenkrupp plans to have completed installation of 76 escalators and 26 moving walks at the iconic new Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, the world’s largest ongoing sea-based construction project that links the Pearl River Delta’s three major cities. At 55 km, the bridge will be one of…
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The Encore Tower, a 43-story condominium building near Edmonton, Canada’s Ice District (ELEVATOR WORLD, April 2016), is under construction and expected to be complete in fall 2019, reflecting what developer David Sanche of Westrich Pacific Corp. says is a strong local economy, the Edmonton Sun reported. Westrich began construction of Encore on the heels of…
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Furthering the limited-use/limited-application (LU/LA) elevator by increasing space savings LU/LA, that melodic-sounding descriptor of a certain kind of elevator, leaves people, even some industry professionals, scratching their heads as to its meaning and applications. The most common perception is that LU/LA cabs are used in commercial applications where hoistway space is confined, but, because of…
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