Readers’ Platform
Power of a Presence
Your author discusses online reputation management for elevator contractors. You’ve been in the industry for years. You’re QEI licensed, which isn’t easy to achieve. Your guys have been with you...
Elevator Industry Field Employees’ Safety Handbook
The importance of this industry standard in field-safety publications is discussed. Take a look at the elevator industry today, and you will see a changing industry. Highly technologically advanced and...
Navigating the Winds of Change
In this Reader’s Platform, your author emphasizes the importance of proper training to thrive in the industry and highlights some trends effective programs cover. For elevator companies to remain competitive...
A Traditional Classroom May Not Be Necessary
In this Reader’s Platform, your author makes the case for the effectiveness of distance learning. It is of interest to note that research on the effectiveness of distance learning, as...
Going Up?
In this Readers Platform, your author describes the link between modernizing elevators and retaining commercial tenants. Scan the skyline in most U.S. cities these days, and you will likely see...
The Complexity of Codes
Keeping up with codes governing the North American elevator industry can be exhausting but is always necessary, this Readers Platform explains. by Jim Runyan I always marvel at how we...
You’ve Decided to Modernize Your Elevators; Now What?
KONE’s director provides “best practices” advice for building owners and managers planning a modernization project. So, you’ve decided to upgrade your building’s elevators. It’s always a big decision. It may...
On the Same Page
Your authors, from NYC-based TEI Group, address the need for an industrywide set of safety standards. by Ray Downs and Robert Pitney, TEI Group In an industry with such a...
So, You Think You Have a “Safety Program”
Upon further review, you may not. by Ray Downs In our industry, there are many competing interests over which we have little or no control. And, we’ve all experienced situations...
“Elevator Joe”
Elevator games can be fun teaching tools. “Elevator Joe,” one of a handful of elevator- and escalator-related games available for mobile devices, has the potential to be a fun teaching...
