Focus Topics
Captivating Cabs
Advanced materials and design create compelling, moving rooms. Interior design, whether in a home or business environment, is a major influencer on peoples’ impressions, moods, states of mind and desire/propensity...
A Heritage Lift Finds Its Former Glory
In this Project Spotlight, a team headed by KJA Consultants restores a 100-plus-year-old elevator. We’re waiting at the door of the elevator, Romas Bubelis and I. The car passes us...
Home Sweet Home
Ontario has been a welcome site for Peelle’s manufacturing since 1964. When The Peelle Co. visited the Canadian market in the early 1920s, Canada was beginning to build its infrastructure...
A Modern Lift
The digital age of elevators arrives at the Fairmont Empress Hotel. The iconic Fairmont Empress Hotel stands proudly overlooking the Inner Harbour in Victoria, the provincial capital of British Columbia....
Partnerships, Relationships, Community Commitment
Canwest Elevator & Lifts stays true to its values while growing into one of Canada’s largest independents. It’s a very interesting time for Calgary-based Canwest Elevator & Lifts, says owner...
From Dubai to Toronto and Beyond
Royal Décor Steel provides bespoke metal panels for use in elevator interiors and more. If you can imagine it, we can create it,” is a motto of Royal Décor Steel,...
A Stroll Through Elevator History
Jane’s Walk participants take a tour of Toronto’s vertical landscape. Editor’s Note Old Toronto is the heart of Canada’s largest urban center and offers some of the metro’s finest examples...
Darling Brothers
The past alludes to the present with the story of an early Canadian manufacturer. The development of the elevator industry in Canada followed a pattern common to Europe and the...
CECA 2018
Without a hitch” is the perfect way to describe the 44th Annual Canadian Elevator Contractors Association (CECA) Convention in Calgary, Alberta, on May 29-June 1 at Hyatt Regency Calgary, as...
The Future of Emergency Communications
The advantages of cellular technology are spelled out in this Readers Platform. With true analog phone lines all but a thing of the past, the elevator industry must transition to...
