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EW Announces 2025 Project of the Year Winners

ELEVATOR WORLD proudly announces the 2025 Project of the Year winners. Expert teams from Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America and the U.K. emerged victorious by successfully completing...

Vertical Building Extension Method Launches in the U.K.

U.K. cities could soon be sprouting upward with new “timber canopies” following the launch of Optoppen – a viability tool intended to spread the practice of extending existing buildings vertically, Architects’...

MP Lifts Hosts MP Open Days For U.K. And Ireland Professionals

MP Lifts organized the MP Open Days event for consultants, construction project managers and lift companies from the U.K. and Ireland. These seminars, held in Seville, Spain, in October, were...

LEIA Looks at Industry Implications of Grenfell Phase 2 Report

The Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 report published in early September was the culmination of more than seven years of work by the inquiry and followed publication of the Phase 1...

New Project Team Appointed for 24-Story Camden Tower

Cartwright Pickard has replaced Grid Architects on long-delayed plans to build a 24-story block of flats in Camden in London, U.K., Building reports. The 100 Avenue Road site was purchased by residential...

UKCW London 2024

Famous faces and big brands come together as the U.K.’s largest built environment event makes welcome return to capital. The U.K.’s largest event for the built environment, UK Construction Week...

A VT Conversation in London

KONE’s Head of Major Projects in Great Britain talks VT trends and sustainability Samu Salmelin Samu Salmelin, KONE’s Head of Major Projects in Great Britain, joined the company in Finland...

Brent Cross West

Stannah supplies seven passenger lifts to London’s newest mainline station in more than a decade.  submitted by Stannahimages courtesy of Thameslink London’s newest mainline station in more than 10 years,...

Skyline and Sketching

A winning combination Thursday 23 May started overcast and grey, but fortunately the clouds broke up during the day, and by the time a group of us were 109-m up...

Jensten To Acquire Lift and Escalator Specialist Broker

Huntington-headquartered Jensten, a fast-growing U.K. insurance broker, on April 24 announced its intention to acquire lift and escalator specialist broker Robert Gerrard & Co Ltd, based in London. Subject to...