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| | ELEVATOR WORLD Europe's November-December 2023 Issue | Events: Big Show, Big Changes; SEELift Network Skopje Meetup; Polish Association of Lift Manufacturers; Rising Higher Together; Big News for interlift; Saudi Arabia's Emerging Expo; 14th Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies
Features: Where Are All the Startups? Israel's Elevator Conundrum; Hangzhou Metro Line 6; Strategic Elevations; Mobilizers Wanted
Focus on Maintenance and Modernization: DPR Nusantara I Tower; A Special Kind of Heavy-Duty Elevator; Advancements in Elevator-Specific VDF Technology
Columns: First Principles and Ropeless Lifts; Universal Design and Roping Systems; Fundamentals of Traffic Analysis | | | EW EUROPE TO FOCUS ON DIGITALIZATION | | | The January-February 2024 issue of ELEVATOR WORLD Europe will focus on Digitalization (AI, automation, simulation, BIM, digital twin and more) and feature the 2024 Project of the Year winners. There will be bonus distribution at Smart Lift & Mobility World 2024 on March 1-3 in Bengaluru, India. Submissions will be accepted through January 2. The Advertising deadline is January 8. Contact Bülent Yılmaz for editorial submissions and editorial and advertising inquiries within Europe. Those outside of Europe may contact Angela C. Baldwin for editorial and T. Bruce MacKinnon for advertising. | | | EW ANNOUNCES 2024 PROJECT OF THE YEAR WINNERS | | | ELEVATOR WORLD proudly announces the 2024 Project of the Year winners. Expert teams in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Singapore and the Middle East emerged victorious by successfully completing challenging, rewarding vertical-transportation (VT) projects in eight categories featuring office buildings, public transit systems, private residences, a hotel and a university. This year's winning projects are outstanding, and we heartily congratulate all the companies and teams involved. They are, in Elevators, New Construction, Schindler Elevator Corporation for National Bank in Montreal, Canada; Elevators, Modernization, TK Elevator for the Humboldt Bank Building in San Francisco, California; Escalators, New Construction, Otis for the Elizabeth Line of the London Underground in London, U.K.; Escalators, Modernization, Otis for the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit North-South and East-West Lines; Inclined Lifts, Hill Hiker, Inc., for an inclined lift system in Dubai, U.A.E.; Platform Lifts and Stairway Chairlifts, Day Elevator & Lift — a KLEEMANN Company, for an accessibility system at Columbia University in NYC; Private-Residence Lifts, Global Tardif Elevator Manufacturing Group for an elevator serving a home in Calgary, Canada; and Special-Purpose Lifts, Eshel Lifts Ltd. for an elevator system serving a hotel in Nahariya, Israel. | | | CEDES NAMES SMANS PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, IoT AND DIGITAL PRODUCTS | | | Switzerland-headquartered sensor specialist CEDES AG recently named Daan Smans president of business development, Internet of Things (IoT) and digital products. Smans' professional experience includes being product director at relayr, where he helped lead development of SKYLER Elevate. Read more here | | | GM RIVA ASSUMES MD ROLE AT TKE ITALY | | | Less than eight months after being appointed general manager (GM) of TK Elevator (TKE) Italy, Omar Riva has taken on the additional role of managing director (MD) of TKE Italy. With more than 20 years' experience in the vertical-transportation industry, Riva joined TKE Italy in 2008 following an acquisition, where he first held the position of commercial manager (2014), then chief operating officer (2018), with responsibilities for both sales and operations. Read more here | | | 2N SELECTED BY SCHMERSAL ITALY FOR ROME METRO LIFT EMERGENCY-CALL SYSTEM | | | Schmersal Italy selected a lift emergency-call system from 2N Telekomunikace a.s. for lifts and escalators on the A and B lines of the Rome Metro. The oldest underground train network in Italy, the Rome Metro opened in 1955. When it was time to upgrade all 24 lifts and 10 escalators serving the A and B lines, Schmersal Italy was tapped to install a modular emergency call system. Read more here | | | PLC PARTNERS WITH SAFELINE FOR SAFER LINE OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS | | | The U.K.'s Platform Lift Company (PLC) has partnered with SafeLine, a Swedish company that manufactures open protocol safety accessories for lifts, to ensure that all emergency auto-dialers currently installed within platform lifts are upgraded to digital ahead of the analog switch-off at the end of 2025. PLC is using SafeLine's advanced 4G VoLTE products to upgrade existing auto-dialers installed in disability lifts across the U.K. and Ireland to digital. Read more here | | | ALIMAK GROUP CONSIDERS CONSOLIDATING ASSEMBLY ACTIVITY | Stockholm, Sweden-headquartered Alimak Group is considering consolidating assembly activity in Mammendorf, Germany, to its manufacturing facility in Madrid, Spain, as part of an effort to deliver significantly improved margins in its Façade Access division. Discussions will commence with the German works council. Read more here | | | CiA ANNOUNCES SAFETY MEETING, NEW CAN DICTIONARY | | | CAN (controller area network) in Automation (CiA) will hold an online meeting on January 30, 2024, to discuss the future of the CANopen Safety standard. The agenda includes the status of the CANopen Safety standard (EN 50325-5), the status of IEC 61508 and IEC 61784-3 and an open discussion on required improvements. Read more here | | | SCHMERSAL OPENS BRANCH IN SAUDI ARABIA | The Schmersal Group, headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, has expanded its global network with Schmersal Middle East Industrial Trading LLC, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Schmersal announced on November 28. The company previously opened a branch in Dubai in 2019 to focus on the economic potential of markets in the Middle East, with approximately 430 million inhabitants. Read more here | | | THIRD ANNUAL PRODUCT OF THE YEAR WINNER/FINALISTS ANNOUNCED | | | The winner of ELEVATOR WORLD's third annual Product of the Year Award is the F1 Cab Shell by MAD Elevator Inc. The F1 Cab Shell is a breakthrough in elevator cab design transforming installation efficiency and elevating aesthetics. With the Quick Connect System, installation becomes seamless, as non-access walls, fronts and canopies are effortlessly aligned and attached without the need for bolts. The innovative cage nut fastening simplifies the process further, requiring just one hand for installation and reducing fasteners by up to 75% compared to other designs. The two finalists are EOX by TK Elevator and the cegard/Smart and SKYLER Elevate solution by Relayr/CEDES. The Product of the Year Award recognizes the outstanding achievements of manufacturers whose products are considered particularly noteworthy or innovative. The products represent advances in technology or application, innovative or improved design, price/performance improvements and potential for further development. To learn more about how your company can participate in the 2024 contest, download and complete the 2024 entry form. | | | ALIMAK AND TORRE DE COLLSEROLA PARTNER TO MODERNIZE HISTORIC BARCELONA ELEVATORS | Sweden's Alimak Group recently announced it is partnering with Torre de Collserola — a project of historic significance in Barcelona, Spain — to modernize the two Alimak elevators initially installed in 1992 for the Barcelona Olympic Games and designed by famed architect Norman Foster. Torre de Collserola is served by two elevators. Read more here | | | BIG UNVEILS DESIGN FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN GREECE | Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has revealed the design of Park Rise residences, a new development in the Little Athens neighborhood of Ellinikon, Greece, featuring modern homes, greenspace, retail, office and hospitality, ArchDaily reports. The Ellinikon is an ambitious urban regeneration project — and Europe's largest — that reimagines the grounds of Athens' old international airport and transforms it into a 6.2 million-m2 smart city. Read more here | | | WARSAW OFFICE COMPLEX PROJECT RECEIVES SECOND-PHASE INVESTMENT | Sweden-based development company Skanska has invested EUR100 million (US$109 million) in the second phase of Studio, an office complex in Warsaw, Poland. Located in the Wola district, the 27-story building will have approximately 26,600 m2 of leasable area. Read more here | | | SCHINDLER VT EQUIPMENT FOR DEVELOPMENT THAT INCLUDES NEW BRATISLAVA LANDMARK | Schindler tells ELEVATOR WORLD it provided vertical-transportation (VT) equipment for Eurovea City, a mixed-use master-planned development on the Danube River in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava that includes Slovakia's tallest building and a new city landmark: the 168-m, 46-story Eurovea Tower. Developer J&T Real Estate announced on November 7 the tower, which boasts nearly 400 residences, had received usage approval ahead of handover in spring 2024. Read more here | | | CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR CTBUH 2024 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE | The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Development (CTBUH) has issued a call for abstracts for the CTBUH 2024 International Conference to be held in London and Paris on September 23-27. The conference is titled "New or Renew: Addressing the Density Dilemma," which refers to the choice between new building and cities or the adaptation of those existing for the sake of environmental, economic and social responsibility. Read more here | | | CTBUH 2023 BEST TALL BUILDING WORLDWIDE IS PAST EW POY WINNER QUAY QUARTER TOWER IN SYDNEY | The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named Sydney, Australia's Quay Quarter Tower as the 2023 Best Tall Building Worldwide during CTBUH's annual conference in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur on October 16-21. At 50 Bridge Street tower, the 45-story structure was redeveloped starting in 2018 with architect 3XN, vertical-transportation (VT) consultant ARUP and VT provider Schindler, which changed the lifts from conventional-control single-deck lifts to double decks with advanced destination dispatch. Read more here | | | OTIS' SBTi GHG COMMITMENT ADDS TO ESG OBJECTIVES | On November 9, Otis Worldwide Corp. announced its commitment to setting near-term, science-based greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets, formally submitting its plan to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for evaluation. Representing a significant addition to Otis' existing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) objectives, the submission includes proposed GHG emission reduction targets for Scopes 1, 2 and 3 against a 2021 baseline. Read more here | | | KONE REPORTS BOOST IN Q3 ORDERS FROM CHINA | KONE reported better than expected new orders for the third quarter, boosted by strong momentum in Chinese orders, Reuters reports. The company, which makes around a third of its sales in China, saw orders received fall by 7.7% to EUR1.99 billion (US$2.10 billion) in Q3, but beat analysts' estimate of EUR1.98 billion (US$2.08 billion) in a company-provided poll. Read more here | | | CTBUH 2024 AWARDS PROGRAM PORTAL NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS | The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) 2024 Awards Program portal is now open for project submissions, and the submission deadline is February 9, 2024. Judged by an international panel of experts, the CTBUH Awards Program recognizes projects, practices and individuals across many categories, including Best Tall Building, Urban Habitat, Innovation, Structure and Construction. Read more here | | | HYUNDAI ELEVATOR CO. CHAIR TO STEP DOWN | Hyundai Group Chairwoman Hyun Jeong-eun will step down in December as chair of the board of directors at the group's elevator unit to help improve its governance structure, the company has announced, Yonhap News Agency reports. Hyun tendered her resignation from the chair position of Hyundai Elevator Co. at the company's board meeting, the company said in a statement. Read more here | | | Editorial submissions, reprint permission requests, subscription/removal requests should be sent to the EWEU News editorial staff: Angela C. Baldwin, Kaija Wilkinson, Lindsay Fletcher and Kathleen Farrell. The ELEVATOR WORLD Media Kit can be downloaded here. EWEU News is a registered trademark, and all rights are reserved. Copyright 2023 © Elevator World, Inc. | | | |
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