Elevators
Elevator Malfunctions Plague Connecticut Town
Elevator malfunctions, including entrapments that required fire department intervention, are plaguing the town of Stamford, Connecticut, CT Examiner reports. The source illustrated the issue by highlighting a particular high-rise residential...
NEII Shares OSHA Civil Penalty and Proposed Rules Updates
The National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII) recently shared information from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) about increased civil penalty fines and a proposed rule...
Lödige Industries Debuts Automation Module for Lift and Robots
On February 1, Germany’s Lödige Industries introduced a new automation module that allows both automated guided vehicles (AGVs) and autonomous mobile robots to interact with different lift systems to move...
NYC MTA: “Deficient” GC Creates Problems for Elevator Project
Forte Construction Corp., a general contractor (GC) the NYC Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) describes as “deficient in supplying the contract-required documents to move items to completion” is at least partly...
KONE Elevators India Named to Top Manufacturing Workplace List
KONE Elevators India, a fully owned subsidiary of KONE Corp., announced that it has been recognized by Great Place To Work® India among India's Best Workplaces™ in Manufacturing 2023, Business...
Polymer Matrix Composite Applications on the Elevators of the Future
by Emre Köroğlu and Ali Kiliç This paper was presented at the 2022 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Barcelona, Spain. Abstract One of the most popular research areas globally...
East Side Style
Bespoke elevators serve Beaux Arts mansion-turned-restaurant in Manhattan. Built in 1910, a six-story Beaux Arts mansion on NYC’s Upper East Side has been revitalized and transformed by a celebrity restaurateur,...
12 Rescued From Elevator in the Philippines
The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) announced firefighters rescued 12 people who were trapped inside an elevator in a commercial building in San Juan City in the Philippines on January...
Elevator Fall in India Results in Death
A 70-year-old man died and three others were injured when an elevator collapsed from the fourth floor of a commercial building in Vadodara, India, on January 28, The Indian Express...
MESA Searching for Scholarship Recipients
Massachusetts Elevator Safety Association (MESA) has begun the search for recipients of the 2023 G. Gahr Finney Memorial Scholarship for high school seniors, and will take applications through May 1....
