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Turkish contractor works with Italian manufacturer to create elevators for towers in the world’s fourth-largest suspension bridge. Istanbul and Izmir: One is the heart of Turkey’s economy, trade, history and...
Up on the Roof
Otis Turkey R&D engineers have developed a helicopter-level elevator that provides safe access to rooftop landing pads. The elevator, designed at the Otis plant in Istanbul, can be applied to...
Elevators Improved in User Friendliness and Comfortability
How a modification was designed to provide greater accessibility and convenience for all This paper was presented at Madrid 2016, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and first published...
Hillside Access Issues Solved
Hill Hiker, Inc. was founded 20 years ago by Bill MacLachlan in Orono on the northern shores of Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. Building on the expertise of MacLachlan’s father-in-law, a Massachusetts...
Evolving the LU/LA Elevator
Furthering the limited-use/limited-application (LU/LA) elevator by increasing space savings LU/LA, that melodic-sounding descriptor of a certain kind of elevator, leaves people, even some industry professionals, scratching their heads as to...
A10 Tauern Tunnel, Austria
Alimak Hek undertakes elevator refurbishment in the Alps. The Tauern Autobahn (A10) is an important north-south connection in the Alps region of Austria. Approximately 6,500 m long, the Tauern Tunnel...
Taking Accessibility to a New Level
Handi-Lift, Inc., headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, has received several ELEVATOR WORLD Project of the Year awards for its custom wheelchair lifts. Projects honored over the years include systems in...
Universal Control System
This Product Spotlight details an inclusive system meant to save money while adding varied features. Inclinator Co. of America’s UC601 Universal Control System is intended to be an inexpensive product...
Inclined Elevator in Genoa, Italy
Genoa, Italy, other than being the hometown of Christopher Columbus, is well known for its steep hills. The town was built in the narrow space between the Alps and the...
Tall Buildings and the Sabbath Elevator
Technological innovations in vertical transportation as they pertain to the ever-evolving Sabbath elevator and the differing reactions to them within Jewish law “Six days you shall labor and do all...
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