Safety

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,...

An Apparatus for Testing Contacts of the Elevator Safety Circuit

by Yuandong Jian, Jiefeng Li, Yihui Ruan and Cheng Zhou The safe operation of an elevator system is of primary importance. The system should work correctly and, above all, safely....

A Way Out: Escape Rescue Systems Are Like Lifeboats in the Sky

Images of people jumping from the burning World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City on 9/11 haunted Escape Rescue Systems Inc. CEO Jonathan “Yoni” Shimshoni and his friends....

Safety Has Been a Driving Force for Columbia Elevator from the Beginning

As our country wound down from World War II, the recently immigrated Blaiotta family suffered its own tragedy when its patriarch died in a 10-story fall while repairing a construction...

Software Testing of Embedded Safety Loops

by Alexandru Forrai and Takaharu Ueda This article deals with hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) software testing applied to programmable electronic safety systems (PESSes) used in passenger elevators. Development of PESSes with application...

Fail Safe Safety Guard: A Way to Prevent Accidents Resulting from Human Error

This article focuses on fail safe safety guards and provides solutions on how to minimize accidents caused by human error. Each year, approximately 500,000 new elevators are installed worldwide, and...

Example of Mogilevliftmash elevator interior; image courtesy of Mogilevliftmash

Elevator Assembly Plant Officially Opens in Belarus

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Unsworth Joins LML Lift Consultants Senior Consultant

This July will mark 40 years since the beginning of Wurtec; image courtesy of Wurtec

Wurtec Celebrating 40th Anniversary

HydraSafe surveyed 17 elevators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with partner Claddagh, which will be providing a control system for single-plunger code compliance; photo by Hugo Schneider for Wikipedia.

HydraSafe Brake: NYC Training, a Move and a New Hire

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Hotels Prepare to Implement Recent Elevator Code Revisions