Codes and Standards

Start Elevator’s O’Shea Discusses 2025 Business Drivers, Challenges

Jack O'Shea, owner and president of Bronx, NY-based Start Elevator, recently discussed with ELEVATOR WORLD what's driving business and creating challenges for his company in 2025. With a roughly equal...

ECNY Announces Upcoming 2025 Events

The Elevator Conference of New York (ECNY) Board of Directors (BoD) has announced ECNY 2025 events and the deadline for scholarship application submissions, which is March 14. The first event...

NAESA New York Elevator Mechanic Seminar Coming Up in Blauvelt

Elevator Conference of New York reminds interested parties that NAESA International will offer a one-day, in-person Code Update Seminar for New York state-licensed elevator mechanics on January 15 in Blauvelt, NY. All...

Possible Reason Given for Continued Elevator Issues in Hyderabad

Jugaad, a Hindi word that can be used to refer to a quick fix or workaround, seems to be a factor in repeated lift accidents in Hyderabad, India, The Times of...

KONE India Launches Smart Elevator Series at ISEE Event

KONE India unveiled its I MonoSpace® SMART, KONE I MiniSpace™ and KONE A MonoSpace SMART elevators at the International Sourcing Exposition (ISEE) for Elevators in India, Realty+ reports. These models are the...

Cabrera Joins Clarkson + Varick as South Florida Business Development Manager

Clarkson + Varick, a NYC-based vertical-transportation consultancy serving clients in New York, New Jersey, Florida and California, has hired Damaris Cabrera as business development manager for South Florida. Cabrera has...

Inspector Trainee Program Class Starts September 16

NAESA International has announced that the Elevator Inspector Trainee Program is now open for registration. This program was developed over the past few years with members of the elevator inspector...

NYT Piece Uses Elevator To Explain Housing Costs and Other Woes

Stephen Jacob Smith, founder and executive director of the Center for Building in North America, used the elevator to explain why housing costs have skyrocketed, among other woes, in a...

Claddagh Electronics Appoints Johnson Business Development Consultant

Claddagh Electronics Ltd., the Long Island City, NY-headquartered manufacturer of code-compliant solutions for the vertical-transportation industry, has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Jeff Johnson as business development...

ASME Appoints Managing Director of Publishing

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) has appointed Christine Reilley managing director of publishing, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Jeff Patterson. One of the largest technical publishing operations in...