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New EU Strategy on Standardisation

Its potential and positive impact on European (lift) SMEs are explored. At the beginning of February 2022, the European Commission presented its new strategy for European Standardisation, a package of...

Rated Load and Maximum Available Car Area

Proposal to revise EN 81-20:2022, Table 6 by Dr. Gina Barney When we size a lift installation to meet passenger demand at a defined performance level, the lift traffic designer...

Points of View

SMEs review an EU-revised Standardization Submitted by SBS In November 2021, CEN TC10 (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization Technical Committee [TC]) — lifts, escalators and moving walks — received from...

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...

Disappearing Car Lift

Designed for a modern villa surrounded by nature submitted by IdealPark Along the Cascais coast, on the west side of Lisboa and inside the Sintra Natural Park, a wonderful modern...

Connecting People and Places

A new inclined elevator in Leioa, Spain, helps locals with access. submitted by TKE The Leioa Inclined Elevator Implementation Project was designed to link the 47-m gap between Langileria Street,...

A Path Forward

Hope is like a path in the countryside. [At first], there is nothing - - - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.-- Lu Xum...

The Water in View

Your author takes a tour of Building II of The View by BUWOG on the Dahme River in Berlin-Gruenau, showcasing the KONE Residential Flow access system. photos by Hans-Wilhelm Berghoff...

Market Recovery

VT business in Spain and Portugal recovers to pre-pandemic levels. by Olga Quintanilla Marful The vertical-transportation (VT) market in Spain and Portugal closed 2021 with an approximate 3% recovery of...

Sharing Knowledge

SBS Lift Webinar provides updates on lift standardization. submitted by EFESME The last event of 2021 organized by the European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EFESME) in collaboration...