Energy Efficiency
SOM Shares Plan for Oman’s New Smart City
Chicago-based architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) shared renderings of a new, 100,000-person, 14.8-km2 smart city planned by Oman just outside of its capital Muscat exclusively with CNN. To...
Elevator Companies Leverage IoT Technology in the Middle East and Africa
A recent report from Fagen Wasanni Technologies details the role of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in the elevator industry in the Middle East and Africa. The adoption of this...
Otis’ Spain Factories Achieve Sustainability Certifications
Otis’ Spain factories recently achieved significant sustainability certifications, Otis announced on August 7: The facility in San Sebastian became the first factory in Spain to obtain LEED® Platinum® certification; all...
ZHA Announced as Architect for Sustainable Daxia Tower in China
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) announced it was recently named architect for the 210-m, 127,220-m2 Daxia Tower in the high-tech zone of Xi’an, China, by client Daxia Group. With a gently...
TKE Distributor DIMO Highlights Work in Sri Lanka and Maldives
Colombo, Sri Lanka-headquartered DIMO, the sole distributor, installer and service provider for TK Elevator (TKE) in Sri Lanka and the Maldives since 2018, recently highlighted several of its key local...
Hyundai Elevator Announces Net-Zero Goal
Hyundai Elevator pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, in a report it released Monday, The Korea Times reports. The report shows the company's efforts between 2022 and 2023 to...
TKE Receives India’s Golden Peacock Award for Energy Efficiency
TK Elevator (TKE) received India's Golden Peacock Award for Energy Efficiency 2023 from the Institute of Directors (IOD), Manufacturing Today is among outlets to report. IOD established the award in...
TKE Celebrates 20 Years of the TWIN Elevator System
After first showcasing TWIN — the world's first elevator to feature two cabins operating independently in the same shaft — at the University of Stuttgart in Germany in 2003, TK...
Otis Introduces Digitally Native GEN3 Core for NA Market
On June 8, Otis introduced the Gen3 Core elevator, the newest member of the Gen3TM family of digitally native elevators designed specifically for North America's (NA) growing two- to six-story...
MAD’s First South American Building To Be Tallest in Quito
Chinese architecture studio MAD has revealed visuals of Qondesa, a skyscraper for Ecuador’s capital Quito, reports dezeen. The mixed-use tower would be taller than Danish studio BIG’s nearby 133-m-tall IQON...
