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Engineering Excellence

Next Level Elevators completes precision installation in Melbourne. by Caleb Terpstra Project Overview Lincoln Place is a complex residential project that required engineering excellence. The Melbourne, Australia, residence situated in...

A Tower of Success

Moroccan billionaire's dream transforms Africa's skyline. Othman Benjelloun is a Moroccan billionaire banker whose many investment ideas may have translated into reality over the years. But accomplishing his dream of...

Are We Prepared?

What would happen if the more than one million elevators in Spain stopped working? Technological innovation surrounds all areas of our lives, and this should make us think about situations...

Elevator Forum 2024

Component manufacturers join forces to present traveling roadshow. The Elevator Forum has been around for many years with a varied line-up. This year, component manufacturers MEILLER Aufzugtüren GmbH of Munich,...

VT Helped by Sustainability

Europe seems to have many of the same problems as the U.S. concerning the construction industry and vertical transportation (VT): high interest rates, a pandemic-inspired surge in remote working, a...

Elevating the VW “Bulli”

How the 3XL elevator from Schmidt Aufzüge Medebach is integrated into the automated production process images by Hans-Wilhelm Berghoff In November 2023, your author visited the freight elevator built by...

Enhancing Quantity and Quality of Employees in the Elevator Industry

The VDI Standard 2168 is being revised. Your author, Undine Stricker-Berghoff (USB), spoke to Horst Schickor (HS) from SBR Aufzugstechnik (Elevator Technology) in Gladbeck, Germany, about the revision of the...

A Growth That Continues To Rise

The elevator market in Spain registers a new increase in its value, exceeding 2.6 billion euros. The turnover of Spanish companies belonging to the vertical-transportation industry amounted to EUR2.625 billion...

Annual FEEDA Day

The ITC draft under examination was discussed. The text of the future Complementary Technical Instruction (ITC) that provides for the update of the mandatory measures related to inspection, maintenance and...

Connecting Projects Large and Very Large

Recently, I finished a book titled The Devil in the White City, a non-fiction work about the building of Chicago’s World’s Fair in the late 1890s. Written by Erik Larson...