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“All Safe, Gentlemen”?

The importance of ascending-car overspeed protection and protection against unintended car motion As we look around the world today, we can marvel at the work ethic and geniuses of mankind....

Elevator Consulting as Value Engineering

Now more than ever, brains, brawn and beauty are important to every aspect of elevator manufacturing. For years, I have been speaking and writing about “the 3 B’s” (brains, brawn...

Time Is Money – Spend Wisely

Industry labor costs and suggestions as to how one can lower them The best projections regarding future trends in the elevator industry predict already-high labor costs significantly increasing over the...

How to Obtain the Sweet Taste of Success from Your Elevator Projects

Discusses how an elevator consultant’s specifications can help or hurt a project The outdated Library Elevator Specification provided by a well-known architectural firm did not cost anything; it was free....

A Working Life with Express Lift Co.

The colorful career of Ben Falk is traced through his son’s stories and research. This story was sent to ELEVATOR WORLD by Patricia Gale (mother of EW Contributor John Gale)...

JD Moleski & Associates: A Crime

Moleski recounts the theft of his company tools and offers tips for crime prevention. The pulsating blue lights from the police cruiser reflected off the bro-ken glass littering the parking...

Design: The Other Face of Engineering

by Leonardo Servadio In the context of Lift 2010 in Milan, Italy (ELEVATOR WORLD, March 2010), the first congress dedicated to the dialogue between the technological and aesthetical aspects of...

The winning team from Linden Lodge School; image courtesy of Otis

South London Students Awarded STEM Grant in Otis Program

STATION IN SOUTH INDIA WITH VT INAUGURATED

Railway Station in South India with VT Inaugurated

STANNAH TO MANAGE RAILWAY STATION ACCESSIBILITY UPGRADE

Stannah to Manage Railway Station Accessibility Upgrade

ASCENT ELEVATORS ACQUIRES SELECT CENTURY ELEVATOR ASSETS

Ascent Elevators Acquires Select Century Elevator Assets

image courtesy of CMRL

Fujitec India Awarded CMRL Escalator Contract