Europe

Europe, Germany and Switzerland

In-depth discussions provide insight on the respective economies and the impacts on the elevator industry.  Traditionally, every year a report on the elevator and escalator markets in Europe's German-speaking countries...

CTBUH Announces Keynote Speakers for Americas Conference

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) announced that David Gottfried, chief global impact officer at Blue Planet Systems, and Kate Simonen, founding director of the Carbon Leadership...

Otis Volunteers Help Students Innovate To Mitigate Climate Change

Farmington, Connecticut-headquartered global OEM Otis recently highlighted an effort that involved more than 180 Otis volunteers and more than 230 students from 15 countries and territories brainstorming ways to mitigate...

Europe – Growing But Slowing?

Material shortages are decreasing in the EU building sector, but labor scarcity remains a challenge, according to banking and financial services company ING. This is very much the same story...

Tower ONE at Frankfurt Outgrows Itself

This Project Spotlight features the completion of a German high rise with KONE equipment. photos by Hans-Wilhelm Berghoff When visiting the construction site in the summer of 2020, the ONE...

A Mix Of Old And New

Elevator Modernization Project In A Fully Occupied And Functional Office Building In France by Olivier Rouvière The Société Générale Towers in La Défense, Paris, France, were constructed in 1995 to...

SEElift Zagreb Meeting

Croatian capital hosts second South-East Europe Lift Network Conference. The second South-East Europe Lift Meeting-SEELift Network Conference, organized by three associations in the Balkan Countries, was held on 7-8 November...

EOX: Eco-Efficient and Natively Digital

Interview with Inge Delobelle, CEO for Europe Africa at TKE  Your author (USB) talked to Inge Delobelle (ID), CEO for Europe Africa at TK Elevator (TKE), based in Düsseldorf, Germany,...

TKE Launches MAX in China

TK Elevator (TKE) has introduced its cloud-based IoT predictive maintenance solution MAX in China, TKE announced on April 20. Launched in North America and select European markets in 2015, MAX...

Next Generation EU

Leveraging the RRF for the European lift industry The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is the key instrument at the heart of the NextGenerationEU initiative to help the European Union...