Residential Lifts And Accessibility

Luxury Accessibility Solutions

This Product Spotlight Looks at a New Offering for The Homelift Market as Demand in Europe Increases. by Clare Brophy Demand for homelifts across Europe is increasing, with more people...

Residential Meets Technology

The “Future Living® Berlin” quarter in Adlershof, Germany, paves the way to the future. photos by Hans-Wilhelm Berghoff In mid-July, elevator manufacturer Schindler, as the technology partner that planned and...

Safety, Accountability in Canada

CECA PRD has important information for those involved in home elevators. by Catharine Bothwell and Brandy Hancock The Private Residence Division (PRD), a member of the Canadian Elevator Contractors Association...

Accessibility for “Showcase of Czechoslovakia”

Schindler escalators, BREMA elevators, are part of revitalization of Prague Metro station that opened in 1980. With deep red balustrade panels accented with stainless steel, the escalators serving the Jiřího...

Rising to the Challenge

Curved inclined elevator helps family of disabled former athlete enjoy their lake home together. by Bill MacLachlan The Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York is arguably one of the...

Prepared for Impact

This Product Spotlight highlights the fruits of Niagara Belco’s recent labor. by Lee Freeland Niagara Belco Elevator Inc. of Hamilton, Canada, focuses on elevators for residential and light commercial applications....

Bringing It Home

This Readers Platform traces the history of the modern residential elevator and looks to its future. Elevators, once found primarily in commercial and institutional environments, in apartment buildings and the...

Choosing Safety over Aesthetics

In this Readers Platform, your author talks about home-elevator safety and how his company’s products supply solutions to the problem. With news of small children being severely injured or even...

Home, LU/LA Elevators

Elevator collective Symmetry Elevating Solutions provides built-to-order home and LU/LA elevators. Owned by a group of experienced residential elevator companies throughout the U.S., Symmetry Elevating Solutions provides custom home elevators...

U.S. Codes and Standards Inhibit Innovation

In this Readers Platform, Elevator Boutique’s Les Katz discusses the restrictions of the U.S. code for private-residence elevators. Standards follow innovation but often to its detriment. Once applied, standards tend...

The 125th Street and Broadway MTA station; photo by General Punger for Wikipedia

Inaccessibility at Key NYC Subway Station Focus of Meeting

Mills Park Tower; image courtesy of apartments.com

Elevator Modernization Underway at Chicagoland OPHA Tower

The event is planned at SPEEDERS in Richmond, B.C.; image courtesy of SPEEDERS.

CECA Western Region Meeting and Networking Event Planned

The event provides lift professionals with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of Shorts’ advanced Langer & Laumann Door Operator; image courtesy of Langer & Laumann.

Shorts Again Offers Roadshow For Lift Professionals

ALABAMA TOWN CONSIDERING FINES FOR FAULTY ELEVATORS

Alabama Town Considering Fines For Faulty Elevators