This Product Spotlight focuses on the Seattle-based company’s hoists, false car and work basket. Spider® by Safway Group is investing in an expanded elevator product lineup. It has been bringing product innovation, productivity and safety to temporary powered suspended-access applications in the commercial construction, infrastructure, power generation, offshore and wind-energy industries for 70 years. Now,…

Work abounds in the increasingly more upscale region. High-rise buildings, 1,000-plus-ft. in height, proliferating in southern California? That was unimaginable not that many years ago, but today, such structures – the largest of them known as “supertalls” – are dotting the West Coast landscape in increasing numbers and forming a typically more East Coast/Midwest-style urban…

Sacramento’s Capitol collaborates with Schumacher, Columbia and GAL/Hollister-Whitney to deliver unique residential project. Sacramento, California, home to approximately 450,000 (more than 2.1 million if one includes the greater metropolitan area), is known as an affordable place to live. It is also full of beauty, with the largest tree canopy in the U.S. and an extensive…

Details of EC’s elevator control system are revealed in this Product Spotlight. This summer marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of the Pixel Elevator Control System from Elevator Controls Corp. (EC), headquartered in Sacramento, California. Pixel has matured over these years, expanding both its feature set and applicability to cover a wide spectrum of…

From Southern California to Washington State, a West Coast construction boom that is transforming skylines means plenty of work for VT companies. Fueled in large part by the technology boom, construction markets in cities on the U.S. West Coast are robust. The most noteworthy tall-building construction is taking place in these cities’ downtowns, where supertall…