Vertical Transportation
MTA projects, record-breaking towers and more
MTA Cuomo Announces East Side Access Civil Construction Completion On May 27, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced completion of civil construction on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) East Side Access megaproject....
Innovative VT Design for High-Rise Residential Towers
This Soviet-developed tool is often referred to as “theory of inventive problem-solving.” by Hongliang Liang and Gasan Guseynov Introduction TRIZ (/ˈtriːz/; Russian: теория решения изобретательских задач, teoriya resheniya izobretatelskikh zadatch, literally:...
Singapore to Pay Bonuses to VT Technicians
Channel News Asia reports that Singapore's Tripartite Cluster for Lift and Escalator (TCLE) announced in July that vertical-transportation (VT) technicians in the country will receive mandatory bonuses of at least a month’s pay...
Campaign Recognizes Efforts of VT Personnel In India
International Sourcing Exposition for Elevators & Escalators (ISEE), an industry event being held in Mumbai, has launched the “ELEVATOR MECHANICS – You Keep the World Moving” public campaign to recognize...
Broken VT In Downtown Seattle Transit Stations An Issue
A dozen escalators and one elevator in the four downtown stations of the Seattle transit tunnel remained broken as of the first week of July, Mass Transit reports. When 2021 began, 28...
VT Moving Into New, Post-Pandemic Reality, Consultant Says
With elevators moving back into regular use — after sitting idle for months as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic — facility managers are finding themselves with a need to...
Interlift Enjoys Strong Response for April 2022 Fair
Organizers AFAG and VFA-Interlift e.V. say the international vertical-transportation (VT) trade fair interlift is more than 80% booked, with more than 300 VT companies registered. The fair, which was postponed...
Vertical Transportation on Plan for India Railway Upgrade
Paromita Roy, JGM, Indian Railway Stations Development Corp., presented a blueprint of the upgrade plan for the Panchkula-Chandigarh railway station to Haryana Vidhan Sabha Speaker Gian Chand Gupta on June...
KONE To Provide VT for Egypt’s Iconic Tower
KONE has won an order to install 60 custom-made elevators and escalators for Iconic Tower, a new building under construction in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital (NAC). When complete, Iconic Tower...
TEI Group VT System for Nearly Complete NYC Condo Tower
TEI Group shared details with ELEVATOR WORLD about the vertical-transportation (VT) system serving the nearly complete The Cortland, a 26-story condominium building at 555 West 22nd Street in West Chelsea,...
