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A Look at Innovation

Entrepreneurship, demand and cost are main drivers. The innovation which results in new and emerging technologies is the driving force underlying the Capitalist system, and the economic principles which drive...

Be Specific!

Validity and interpretation of pay less notices In the case of Advance JV & Ors -v- Enisca Ltd. [2022] EWHC 1152, the Technology and Construction Court (TCC) considered the validity...

A Golden Anniversary

Terry Lifts Chairman Peter Morrey celebrates 50 years and counting at the top of the manufacturing business in Cheshire.  Peter Morrey, chairman of Terry Lifts, joined the company as general...

Successful Events and Safety

In this final issue of 2022, Issue 113, we close the year by reporting on two of the U.K. lift industry’s biggest and most important events, the Lift & Escalator...

LiftEx and LEEA Awards 2022

Event recap celebrates award winners. submitted by LEEA LiftEx, the flagship event of the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), was held over two days in October at P&J Live in...

Appraisals? Let’s Sack Them

Why they are not ideal and an alternative method Where is a great journalist called Lucy Kellaway, once the irreverent management columnist at the Financial Times, now full-time teacher and...

A Safety Journey

Your author reflects on his 45 years in the industry through the lens of safety. With the focus of this issue on safety and as one of a handful of...

No Time To Lose!

The implied obligation as to time for completion and the perils of failing to progress works expeditiously In the recent case of Barkby Real Estate Developments Ltd. v. Cornerstone Telecommunications...

IoT Safety Predictive Monitoring of Lift Operations, Shafts and Buildings

by Andrew Gorin, Paolo Riva This paper was first presented at the 13th Lift & Escalator Technologies Symposium in September 2022 and printed at the symposium website at liftsymposium.org. Keywords:...

Safety First

A conversation with the founder of Elevating Safety Solutions Stewart Proctor With more than 35 years in the lift industry, Stewart Proctor launched Elevating Safety Solutions (ESS) in 2008 after...