Special Regional Section
Big Apple Business Boom
Across the boroughs, NYC continues to redefine itself with record-breaking development, and there is more than enough VT work to go around. by Kaija Wilkinson Merriam-Webster defines “boomtown” as “a...
Spider Leverages 70 Years of Experience
This Product Spotlight focuses on the Seattle-based company’s hoists, false car and work basket. Spider® by Safway Group is investing in an expanded elevator product lineup. It has been bringing...
Columbia Helps Southern California Grow “Up”
Work abounds in the increasingly more upscale region. High-rise buildings, 1,000-plus-ft. in height, proliferating in southern California? That was unimaginable not that many years ago, but today, such structures –...
Square Peg for a Round Hole
Sacramento’s Capitol collaborates with Schumacher, Columbia and GAL/Hollister-Whitney to deliver unique residential project. Sacramento, California, home to approximately 450,000 (more than 2.1 million if one includes the greater metropolitan area),...
Pixel Turns Five
Details of EC’s elevator control system are revealed in this Product Spotlight. This summer marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the Pixel Elevator Control System from Elevator Controls...
Market Trends: Trending Up
From Southern California to Washington State, a West Coast construction boom that is transforming skylines means plenty of work for VT companies. Fueled in large part by the technology boom,...
Core Values
Kencor is growing its business throughout the region and beyond with a well-thought-out formula for success. Kencor, Inc. Elevator Systems has enjoyed double-digit growth each year for the past seven,...
A Family Repair Affair
EMR keeps the Mid Atlantic’s motors running. Family-owned and -operated companies are big business in the U.S. It has been estimated that by 2017, 40% of family business owners expect...
Tall Stories in the Big Apple
Elevator entrances reach new heights in 3 WTC, and 10 and 35 Hudson Yards. Twenty-foot-high elevator entrances? At first blush, this sounds like the stuff of imagination or a futuristic...
Manhattan House
Manhattan House was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1950 and stands as one of the premier landmark buildings in New York City’s (NYC) Upper East...
