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Your Next Apartment Could Be in an Office Building
How strategic planning and interconnected elevators can enable transformation of increasingly vacant office space by Rick Piovano When the world shut down in 2020, building managers quickly found new ways...
Transformative Construction Boom in KSA and U.A.E.
A look at major projects and what’s driving them by Ehtesham Ahmed The Middle East has been experiencing a transformative construction boom, especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)...
Women in Motion
Meet several women who are making waves in the VT industry. This past April, I was attending the National Association of Elevator Contractors (NAEC) Spring Educational Conference in Miramar Beach,...
A New Era for VT in Spain
New ITC launched to improve the security of vertical transportation (VT). The entry into force of the new Complementary Technical Instruction (ITC) AEM 1 for Elevators, which affects the vertical-transportation...
Past, Present and Future
A look at 150 years of Schindler's history and what comes next. Cordula Jourdan Schindler is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2024. Your author (JH) discusses the industry major’s past,...
Great Expectations
Possible implications of Modi 3.0 for the VT industry The first two central governments with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the helm were characterized by a sustained emphasis on boosting...
Talking SMEs in India and Beyond
Massimo Bezzi (MB), president, European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EFESME), shares with your author (SP) his observations on the VT industry in India, scope for collaborations and...
Tower of Babel?
Kenya’s Bunge Tower opens despite safety concerns. Modern facilities including six elevators and six escalators reportedly serve one of Nairobi, Kenya’s newest landmarks — the 28-story Bunge Tower government building...
Elevator Controller Failures
Reasons for elevator controller failures and ways to safeguard against them An elevator system is a combination of electrical, mechanical and electronic parts. Mechanical system parts failures can easily be...
Tulip MONSELLA
TJEI tapped to provide 60 high-speed elevators for luxury residential project in Gurugram. submitted by TJEIimages courtesy of Tulip Infratech Toshiba Johnson Elevators (India) Pvt. Ltd. (TJEI) in June...
