Sustainability
Using Digital Tools To Elevate Sustainability
by Robert Kaspersma, Claudio Donghi This paper was presented at the 2023 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Edinburgh, Scotland. Abstract In the European Union, the building sector is the...
Otis Announces Made to Move Communities Competition Theme
On September 10, Otis announced the theme for this year’s Made to Move CommunitiesTM global student competition: applying AI to enable more inclusive and sustainability mobility solutions. More than 250...
Fujitec Receives Major Elevator Remote-Monitoring Certification
Fujitec Co., Ltd. announced on September 12 that its group company Fujitec Singapore Corp. Ltd. has become the first Japanese company to obtain certification for elevator maintenance using remote monitoring...
Dubai’s Al Habtoor Tower Now More than 30% Complete
One of the latest additions to the Dubai skyline, the 32-story, 358-m-tall Al Habtoor Tower on Sheikh Zayed Road near the Dubai Water Canal, has reached a key milestone with...
Elevator Digital Media Forum to be Held in Vietnam
MMA Global, Chicilon Media and Kantar Media will host "Leading the New Era of Advertising: Building Elevator Digital Media," a forum on trends and insights in elevator digital media, in...
KONE Provides Two New MRLs as Part of Tribeca Fire Restoration
KONE tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided two MonoSpace® 500 DX machine-room-less (MRL) elevators to 27 Park Place, a five-story commercial building in Tribeca, Manhattan, NYC, that was heavily damaged in...
Saudi Arabia Approves Design of World’s Tallest Sports Tower
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) moved forward with its Vision 2030 initiative by approving the design of the world's tallest sports tower — the 130-m-tall Global Sports Tower —...
Schindler to Provide 293 Units for Saudi Arabia Project
Schindler Olayan will provide a total of 293 elevators, escalators and moving walks to phase one of the new multi-purpose project The Avenues – Riyadh in the Saudi Arabian capital,...
KONE Digital Experience Available in Australia’s Tallest Building
Australia’s tallest tower has introduced an extraordinary attraction — the KONE Digital Experience Display elevator, Australia’s first-of-its-kind sustainable and immersive elevator experience — through a partnership between KONE and SkyPoint,...
World’s Tallest Mass-Timber Building Envisioned in Milwaukee
The Neutral Project, LLC, has been selected by the City of Milwaukee to redevelop an underutilized city-controlled site: the Marcus Performing Arts Center parking garage at 101 North Water Street,...
