Focus Topics
Method for Managing Maintenance
This article was flrst presented at the 2018 International Elevator & Escalator Symposium in Istanbul. For more information on December 3-4, 2019’s event in Las Vegas and to participate, visit...
It Pays to Be Consistent
Why regular elevator maintenance is a good long-term investment It is crucial that elevators operate efficiently so building occupants may conduct business and go about their lives without disruption. Adding...
Gearless DC Machines Should Be Replaced
Old-technology motors have no place in modernized elevators for many reasons. This paper was presented at Berlin 2018, the International Congress on Vertical Transportation Technologies, and flrst published in...
Energy and Operational Saving Strategies
Benefits of modernization projects for escalator and moving walk drives Most vertical-transportation industry stakeholders — and people in general — are more and more committed to protecting the environment. Thus,...
Modernization for the Metro
In 2017, RATP, the public transport operator and infrastructure manager of the Paris Metro, concluded it was time to modernize the two 100-person-capacity elevators at the historic Lamarck- Caulaincourt station,...
Elevator Modernization: When Is It Time?
In this Readers Platform, your author explains how to approach this major investment armed with insight. by Laurie Axium Kohl The decision to modernize your elevators should never be taken...
The old traction machines
In this Readers Platform, Vantage and Champion executives discuss working together on their biggest-ever modernization. In 2018, Champion Elevator teamed up with Vantage Elevator Solutions to deliver the largest project...
21st Century Upgrade
In this Project Spotlight, the Banco Central do Brasil tower gets a modernization of a VT system more than three decades old. With their building’s elevators more than 30 years...
What’s New in Modernization
Columbia advances the upgrade of cabs. In today’s real-estate universe, rising with the ever-escalating heights of today’s supertalls, is the incidence of elevator modernization, and there are numerous reasons why....
The Ups And Downs Of Fire- Resistant Hydraulic Fluids
Fluid power is the preferred choice by industry to perform work, due to its smaller size, higher energy efficiency and ease of adjustment. These advantages are lost if an incident...
