Focus Topics
Solutions Needed to Ensure Children’s Safety
In this Readers Platform, authors James Filippone, P.E., and John Koshak, QEC, explore changes to the U.S. elevator code and common installations, which have combined to make private-residence elevators potentially...
LU/LA Elevator in Grace Fellowship Church
When Grace Fellowship Church, housed in a small 1930s-era brick structure in Waterloo, Iowa, found that more and more congregants were having trouble accessing all three of its floors due...
From Cadillacs to Custom Lifts: Inclinator Co. of America
From Groucho Marx and Henry Ford years ago to President George H.W. Bush and racecar driver Tony Stewart today, Inclinator Co. of America has built and delivered thousands of custom...
The Perfect Fit
Handi-Lift helps a luxury menswear retailer achieve stylish accessibility with a vertical platform lift. Creating a lift that was not only Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant, but also so stylish...
Jungle Tram in the Panama Canal
An inclined lift makes navigating the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s unique layout possible. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) on Barro Colorado Island in the middle of the Panama Canal...
Up and Over
Pedarco’s automated pedestrian overpass aims to provide a solution in a quickly urbanizing world. Pedarco International Ltd. hopes an idea born in Italy and developed in China will result in...
MRL Elevators on the Rise
Equipment continues to gain acceptance in the U.S., thanks to several advantages. While popular in Europe and Asia for several years, machine-room-less (MRL) elevators are still making their debut in...
Rising to the Challenge
ThyssenKrupp Elevator takes its Evolution lifts farther and higher to meet the needs of Luanda, Angola, tower. The special requirements of the 31-floor, 120-m- tall Banco EspÃrito Santo Angola (BESA)...
The Right Elevators at the Right Time
ThyssenKrupp Elevator’s synergy BLUE elevators debut in custom job for PIER 78. ThyssenKrupp Elevator unveiled a pair of its environmentally friendly, stylish machine-room-less (MRL) synergy BLUE elevators amid much fanfare...
Difficulties in Comparing the Results of Lift-Traffic-Simulations
Difficulties in Comparing the Results of Lift-Traffic-Simulations by Hans M. Jappsen and Olaf Rieke This paper was presented at  USA 2012, the ÂInternational Congress on Vertical Transportation ÂTechnologies and first...
