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EESF Board Meets With New Executive
Foundation back on track after COVID-19 puts gathering on hold. Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) board members gathered at the Renaissance Mobile Riverview Plaza Hotel in downtown Mobile, Alabama, on...
“Big Company Resources, Small Company Feel”
Dura-Lift marks 25 years of serving diverse VT customers in New York and New Jersey. The hustle and bustle in New York and New Jersey never cease. Whether at work...
Time for Excitement
A conversation with TKE North America CEO Kevin Lavallee about urbanization, company plans and how the new HQ in Atlanta fits into the equation TK Elevator North America CEO Kevin...
Albert Betteley
Your author explores the history of a Boston mechanic who was one of the VT industry’s early pioneers. The December 22, 1857, issue of the Boston Evening Transcript included a...
Future Modernizations
This paper was first presented virtually at the 12th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium in September 2021 and printed at the symposium website at liftsymposium.org. Keywords: modernization, post-pandemic workplace, societal...
“American Success Story”
A far-reaching discussion with principals of VT consultancy VDA Recently, the well-established vertical-transportation (VT) consultancy VDA received an investment from Chicago-based investment firm Keystone Capital in December 2021. Its principals,...
Challenging Our Thinking Regarding Lift Incidents
by Roger Kahler and Nicholas Pierce This paper was first presented virtually at the 12th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium in September 2021 and printed at the symposium website at...
The Story of People Flow in Cities
KONE data looks at the impact of the pandemic on people flow in workplaces, hotels and more. submitted by KONEphotos courtesy of Financial Times Commercial department KONE, a global leader...
Lifting Lemon Since 2003
Contact centre startup finds its niche in lifts. by Emily Coxon It was the summer of 2003: Tony Blair was in Number 10, a young Christiano Ronaldo made his Manchester...
Revision of the Indian Standards on Passenger and Goods Lifts, Part 2
by Abhijit Dandekar and Pravin Tipnis Editor’s Note: Part 2 provides Annexures 1-4 of the article’s Part 1, which was published in ELEVATOR WORLD India, 4th Quarter 2021. Annexure 1...