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A growing amount of empty office space and a push toward carbon neutrality have thus far failed to quell the City of London’s “fierce” appetite for tall-building construction, with six skyscrapers taller than 145 m greenlit in the past few years, Architects’ Journal reports. Three such towers were approved in the first few months of 2021, joining…
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KONE has won an order to supply 15 custom-made elevators and escalators for the new “Arbor” office building at Western Yards, phase one of the Bankside Yards mixed-use development in London, the company announced on April 27. KONE will deliver six MiniSpace™ double-deck elevators, five MonoSpace® elevators and four TravelMaster™ 110 escalators, all with custom-made…
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LIFTEX organizer the Lift & Escalator Industry Association announced the event will take place on October 12-13 at ExCeL in London. Originally planned for May 2022 but postponed due to the pandemic, LIFTEX takes place every three years and serves as a showcase for the lift and escalator industry. It is aimed at installers, specifiers,…
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A glass elevator that will run up the inside of one of Battersea Power Station’s chimneys in London before popping up out of the top for a view will open next year, Ian Visits reported on April 1. Traveling 109 m up the interior to the top of the North West chimney, the newly branded “Chimney Lift”…
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Docklands Light Railway (DLR) has inked a deal with vertical-transportation (VT) equipment monitoring company WeMaintain to provide predictive maintenance for 86 lifts and 30 escalators, the East London Advertiser reports. Observing it had Europe’s first computer-controlled driverless trains when it opened in 1987, DLR links the Canary Wharf development with the Isle of Dogs and Stratford in…
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