Safety
Something Has to Give
This introspective Readers Platform addresses the critical topics of maintenance contracts and route overloads in the U.S. This article is written from my perspective as an International Union of Elevator...
Why PESSRAL Is Not PESS
Important safety ramifications in European standards applications This paper was presented at  Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 21,...
Speeding Up Elevator Inspections and Reporting
Introducing a timesaving mobile app years in the making Improving operations is an evergreen topic. Several years ago, UpVate.com proposed a common electronic-data management platform (ELEVATOR WORLD, September 2012). The idea...
Breakthrough in Safe and Cost-Effective Elevator Hoistway Control
Together, APS and iDiscovery provide an array of benefits. This paper was presented at  Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator...
Best Bureaucrat
Miami-Dade County has a chief elevator inspector it won’t want to lose in Michael A. Chavez. In 2006, an elderly Miami couple in their 80s were stranded in their apartment....
Elevators for Fire Service Access and Occupant Evacuation
This paper was presented at  Paris 2014, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published in IAEE book Elevator Technology 20, edited by A. Lustig. It is a...
On the Development of Occupant Evacuation Elevators
An examination of concepts to use elevators in high-rise emergencies, including history centered on 9/11 The Concept Pre 9/11 The sign, “In case of fire, do not use elevators, use...
Elevator Emergency Operations
Recommended safety features and how to make an elevator fully compliant with the codes in effect are discussed. Passenger elevators play the most important role in vertical transportation within most...
Rising to the Challenge
In the quickly growing African market, training is critical for safety. Despite the fact that fatal accidents involving vertical-transportation systems are rare here, Africa’s current commercial and residential real estate...
CEDES Installs IMS 100 Safeguards in Lucerne
CEDES Corp. has installed its IMS 100 safeguard sensors, an entrance-area monitoring device, in Lucerne Cantonal Hospital in Lucerne, Switzerland. The 19-story building, which is equipped with nine Schindler elevators,...
