Accessibility

KONE Providing 51 Elevators and More to New Development in Hangzhou

KONE has been tapped to provide a range of People Flow® solutions, including 51 MiniSpaceTM and 12 MonoSpace® elevators, to Zhejiang University Alumni Headquarters Economic Park in Hangzhou, East China,...

Access To Showcase Stairlift Solutions at OT Show 2023

Access, one of the U.K.’s leading suppliers of stairlifts, home lifts and platform lifts, will be showcasing working models from its range of stairlifts on stand G51 at this year’s...

Elevators Closed in Pakistan Government Building

Elevators at the Shaheed-e-Millat Secretariat, which houses several government offices in Islamabad, have been closed by the Pakistan Public Works Department (PWD), The News reports. The PWD says the lifts...

Voted World’s Best Airport, Singapore Changi Airport Opens T2

Voted the World’s Best Airport in the 2023 Skytrax Airport Awards, Singapore’s Changi Airport has fully reopened Terminal 2 (T2) following a 3.5 year, 21,000-m2 expansion, CNN reports. Like other...

Elevator Work Almost Complete at South Dakota Museum

The Codington County Heritage Museum in downtown Watertown, South Dakota, is on its way to becoming more accessible with the installation of an outdoor, glass elevator, KXLG reports. Since 1975,...

Pollock Lifts Signs Distribution Agreement for U.S. Growth

U.K.-based Pollock Lifts announced it has secured a distribution agreement with market leader Bruno Independent Living Aids in the U.S. The newly inaugurated dealership with Bruno, located in Ocanomowac, Wisconsin,...

GT Awarded 15-Elevator Contract in Vancouver With Fujitec Canada

Global Tardif Elevator Manufacturing Group (GT) recently announced it has been awarded a contract for 15 panoramic machine-room-less elevators for the Broadway-City Hall Station in Vancouver, Canada. The station is...

Modern Elevator Installs Three New Elevators at Brooklyn MTA Station

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) tells ELEVATOR WORLD Modern Elevator installed three new elevators at the Flushing Avenue subway station in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. The units replaced...

Alimak and Torre de Collserola Partner To Modernize Historic Barcelona Elevators

Sweden's Alimak Group recently announced it is partnering with Torre de Collserola — a project of historic significance in Barcelona, Spain — to modernize the two Alimak elevators initially installed...

Otis China Contracts Highlighted During 3Q Earnings Call

Two major contracts in China were among those highlighted by Otis President and CEO Judy Marks during a 3rd Quarter 2023 earnings call on October 25. In the Hong Kong...