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Elevated Facility Services Group Adds Four to Leadership Team
Tampa, Florida-based Elevated Facility Services, a major independent provider of elevator maintenance, repair and modernization services, announced on August 8 it added four experienced vertical-transportation (VT) professionals to its leadership...
The Extra Mile
At Schindler HQ in Switzerland, a pilot program is bringing an unexpected benefit to employees. It's the end of an exceptionally long workday, the refrigerator at home is all but...
Schindler Elevators For New Mixed-Use Building in Manhattan
Schindler tells ELEVATOR WORLD it is providing two Schindler 5500 machine-room-less traction elevators at 1 Park Row, a 23-story mixed-use building in the Financial District of Manhattan, NYC. Designed by...
Shifting Gears
KONE and Schindler provide insight into an evolving NYC property and VT market. As the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in an era of remote and hybrid work that appears to be...
This Too Shall Pass
Our focus this month is on the region of New York — and the stories poured in. Many reflected your author’s thoughts in this column over the past three-four months,...
Schindler Offers Eight AIA Lunch & Learn VT Courses
Schindler is currently offering eight accredited Lunch & Learn courses covering topics such as touchless technology, destination dispatching systems for elevators, escalator architectural features, moving walk applications and more. Each...
Schindler Awarded “Transformative” 372-Unit VT Contract at MIA
Miami International Airport (MIA) is about to undergo a "transformative" upgrade involving 372 pieces of vertical-transportation (VT) equipment — elevators, escalators and moving walks, 7 News Miami reports. The five-year...
Schindler Providing 150 VT Units to Latest Phase of Mecca Giga-Project
Schindler will provide 150 vertical-transportation (VT) units, including 44 Schindler 7000 elevators, 65 Schindler 5500 elevators, 36 Schindler 9300 escalators and five platform lifts to Masar, a mixed-use "giga-project" in...
Built to Dazzle in Oslo
Elevators serving one of Norway’s largest hotels are an experience in themselves. Financed and built by Norway’s Oslo Municipality to accommodate the 1952 Winter Olympics, what is now known as...
Top-Down Problems
I put off writing my editorial this month to see if the debt-ceiling crisis would be resolved. I didn’t want to write that our (elevator) world was great if we...
