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Industry Trade Shows: Visiting Versus Attending
Hosting elaborate trade shows is one thing the elevator industry does well. A walk through this year’s National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) 64th Annual Convention & Exposition in Tampa,...
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During my 40-some years in the elevator business, I’ve learned one thing for sure: the number of problems elevator mechanics encounter during their work is not infinite and can and...
“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Discusses how an elevator consultant’s specifications can help or hurt a project The outdated Library Elevator Specification provided by a well-known architectural firm did not cost anything; it was free....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...
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