Focus Topics
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...
Fire Protection And Domestic Through-Floor Lifts
Vertical-transportation solution promotes fire safety in the home. submitted by Terry Lifts Fire prevention work has been a statutory duty for fire and rescue services since 2004 with the introduction...
AKE Model-T Heavy Duty Escalator Project
M1 – T4 – M2 Metro Routes Project in the European Side Railway Systems Routes of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality by Nazım Keskin Transportation networks develop every passing day in Türkiye...
The Elevator Industry: Data Accessibility and Transparency
Data helps manage maintenance costs, safety and regulatory compliance. In the elevator industry ecosystem of building owners, property managers, contractors, field staff, consultants and regulators, data transparency related to elevator...
Lift Industry and BIM: A Long Overdue Adopted and Typically Overlooked Project Enabler
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: BIM, Digitalization, Digital Construction Abstract....
Robots and Remote Elevator Operability
TKE provides digitally advanced elevators at Canada’s new Calgary Cancer Centre. Advances in Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) paved the way for companies like TK Elevator (TKE) to offer robot-elevator APIs...
Closing the Gap
Whether it involves training, changing equipment or — most importantly, safety — software company Helios is there to help. As a third-generation elevator man, Adam Braman derives satisfaction from playing...
The Value of Industry Licensing
Industry standards protect both workers and the riding public. To license or not to license. . .that is the question. But why? Why are there still questions about the value...
People Selling to People
Quad City Safety delivers by knowing its customers. Mike Smeaton, Jr., and Dave White graduated within a few years of each other in the late 1990s from Murray State University...
Increasing Pit Safety
In this Product Spotlight, a new pit safety system is explained. Electronic Controls, Inc. (ECI America) has developed a new elevator pit safety system appropriately named “PitSafe®.” The design of...
