Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com TKE NAMES VINCENT DELLA VALLE COO TKE has named Vincent Della Valle chief operating officer (COO), responsible for product and supply chain and airport solutions. Reporting directly to CEO Peter Walker, Valle's new role will become effective April 1. He currently works at Bureau Veritas as senior vice president, commodities, global service line. Born in France, Valle ha...
Mar 16, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com STARBUCKS CHICAGO ROASTERY GARNERS ANOTHER HONOR Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Chicago has earned another honor with Engineering News-Record (ENR) naming the shop Best Interior/Tenant Improvement among its Best of the Best Projects 2020. The 35,000-ft2 space, a converted Crate & Barrel flagship store at 646 North Michigan Avenue on the citys Magnificent Mile, is a five-...
Mar 15, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com TKE First-Of-Its-Kind Twin Installation In Paris La Dfense TKE installed two escalators and 16 lifts, including eight high-speed TWINs, featuring two cabins operating independently in one shaft for a total of 16 cabins, in the 33-story Trinity Tower, designed by Jean-Luc Crochon in Paris La Dfense district. Two of the TWIN lifts operate in panoramic shafts that run the...
Mar 12, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com UPDATE ON VT FOR NYCS HISTORIC OFFICE-TO-CONDO CONVERSION The vertical-transportation (VT) system for One Wall Street, the largest-ever office-to-condo conversion in NYC, is approximately 65% complete, KONE Project Manager Ken Snowdon tells ELEVATOR WORLD. When EW reported on the project in October 2019, VT work was roughly 5% complete. Macklowe Properties is developin...
Mar 08, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com TKE PROVIDING 110 UNITS TO SHENZHEN AIRPORT CONCOURSE TKE is providing 40 elevators, 38 escalators, 30 moving walks and two platform lifts to Shenzhen Airport's new satellite concourse, set to open in June. Installation began in August 2020 and was scheduled for completion in March. Building on a relationship that included equipment for the airport's Terminal 3, the ord...
Mar 04, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com AEG ACQUIRES BROOKLYNS PRECISION American Elevator Group (AEG) has acquired Precision Elevator Corp., based in Brooklyn, New York, and specializing in maintenance, service, modernization and construction of hydraulic, traction and freight elevators throughout the Northeast, AEG announced on March 2. Bobby Schaeffer, CEO of D&D Elevator, which gained investment from AEG ...
Mar 03, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com SAUDI ARABIAS VT INDUSTRY LOOKS TO POST-PANDEMIC RECOVERY Saudi Arabia's vertical-transportation (VT) industry is poised for recovery from the pandemic due to growing urbanization, increased high-rise construction and the government's Vision 2030 initiative, which involves megaprojects supported by new infrastructure, Arab News reported in February. Demand for elevators...
Mar 02, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR BECOMES TK ELEVATOR; BRANDED TKE thyssenkrupp Elevator is now TK Elevator, branded TKE, the company announced on February 25. The new name and brand follows the company's becoming a standalone entity following its purchase by a consortium of Advent, Cinven and RAG AG in February 2020. Suggesting the energy and optimism of a sunrise, the purple and ...
Feb 25, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com 1,053 APARTMENTS, RETAIL AND PARKING PLANNED IN CHICAGO A pair of towers designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz and developed by Pacific Reach Properties at 601 West Monroe Street in Chicagos West Loop Gate are set to contain a total of 1,053 apartments, parking and retail, Chicago YIMBY reports. Linked by a podium, the east tower will rise 47 stories and contain 537 apartm...
Feb 25, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com Supertalls Part Of Manhattan Empire Station Complex Plan New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the board of directors of Empire State Development (ESD) has adopted a general plan for high-density redevelopment of eight sites surrounding Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan, news outlets including New York YIMBY report. Five up-to-1,300-ft-tall supertalls, along with four additio...
Feb 23, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP MAKES SWEDISH ACQUISITION thyssenkrupp is acquiring Stockholm-based Sdiptech AB, which has a maintenance portfolio of 9,500 units, the OEM announced on February 19. Companies operating under the Sdiptech umbrella employ 115 and generated revenue of EUR30 million (US$36 million) in fiscal 2020. Subject to approval by Swedish authorities, the deal is expected...
Feb 22, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com 50 HUDSON YARDS TOPS OUT New York YIMBY recently reported on the topping out of Foster + Partners and Oxford Properties' 50 Hudson Yards at 1,011 ft. The 58-story commercial supertall is the final building for Hudson Yards' first phase. At 2.9 million ft2, it is also the largest by volume and features the first installation of thyssenkrupp Elevator's TWIN system in NYC ...
Feb 17, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com IAEC FORUM POSTPONED, MOVED TO ORLANDO IAEC Forum 2021 has been rescheduled to June 29-July 2 at the Wyndham Grand Orlando Bonnet Creek Resort in Orlando the International Association of Elevator Contractors (IAEC) recently announced. The new location will double the total meeting space from last year's iteration to provide extensive room for social distancing during se...
Feb 16, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com FINAL KPF DESIGN OF 5 WTC IN NYC REVEALED, APPROVED A design by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) was selected for Five World Trade Center (5 WTC) by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey during a board meeting on February 11, New York YIMBY reports. The 900-ft-tall, 80-story structure at 130 Liberty Street is the latest piece of the redevelopment of the WTC site in NYCs ...
Feb 15, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com OSHA UPGRADES, UPDATES COVID-19 SITE OSHA recently revamped and has continually updated its COVID-19 webpage over the past few months. New resources include Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in the Workplace, guidance on common COVID-19 citations, alerts on ventilation in the workplace and short video public service announc...
Feb 10, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com OTIS BRAZIL SIGNS MAINTENANCE CONTRACT FOR 88 UNITS Otis Brazil has signed a maintenance contract with Gazit Group for 88 units across six properties, adding 51 units to Otis service portfolio and renewing a contract for an additional 37 units, including elevators, escalators, moving walks and platform lifts. With what Otis describes as focus on technology and safety, t...
Feb 09, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com HITACHI ELEVATOR PROVIDING 201 UNITS TO SHANGHAI METRO Hitachi Elevator (China) Co., Ltd. is providing 201 elevators and escalators to 14 stations along Shanghai Metro Line 15, which opened for trial operations in January. Starting at Gucun Park to the north and ending at Zizhu High-Tech Industrial Park to the south, the 42-km underground line is the longest (in kilomet...
Feb 08, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com IGV ADDS EXPORT MANAGER, AD HOC PM IGV Group of Vignate, Italy, recently appointed Sabrina Colla as its new export area manager and ad hoc project manager (PM). Colla will support IGVs expansion in the U.K., France, Eastern Europe and Russia and ad hoc project development. The latter represents "a new product range designed by renowned architects, where the lift becomes...
Feb 05, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com DETAILS ABOUT NYC MIDTOWN EAST COMMODORE SUPERTALL Developed by RXR Realty and TF Cornerstone, Project Commodore at 175 Park Avenue in NYCs Midtown East includes a 1,646-ft-tall, 83-story tower that would become the tallest in the Western Hemisphere by roof height, New York YIMBY reports. Renderings by architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill reveal a faade featuring "an el...
Feb 04, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com CTBUH ANNOUNCES BEST TALL BUILDING WINNERS FOR 2021 The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) recently announced the best Tall Building Award of Excellence Winners for 2021. The buildings were evaluated across five height thresholds and three functions under 100 m, 100-199 m, 200-299 m, 300-399 m and 400 m and above, and office, mixed-use and residential. ...
Feb 03, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com CONSTRUCTION TOPS OUT ON THE SPIRAL IN NYC The 1,031-ft-tall, 66-story The Spiral, under construction at 66 Hudson Boulevard in NYC, has topped out, New York YIMBY reported on January 29. As a group of officials, led by Rob Speyer, president and CEO of developer Tishman Speyer, watched, a green tree was lifted atop a steel beam rising up the building. With a design by B...
Feb 02, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com NEIGHBOR APPROVED FOR LONDONS WALKIE-TALKIE TOWER London's Rafael Violy-designed, 37-story "Walkie-Talkie" skyscraper at 20 Frenchurch Street will likely be getting a 30-story neighbor, with the City of London Corp. approving Hong Kong developer Tenacity International Group's office tower plan, Bloomberg reports. The source observed it is one of the largest proposed dev...
Feb 01, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com OTIS ELEVATOR AIRFLOW STUDY: COVID-19 RISK LOW WITH MITIGATION Otis released results of a three-month academic study on how elevator airflow affects potential exposure to COVID-19 on January 27. Led by Dr. Qingyan Chen, the James G. Dwyer professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, the study presented a science-based approach to ...
Jan 28, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com CECA POSTPONES HALIFAX EVENT; LOOKS TO MONTREAL IN 2022 The Canadian Elevator Contractors Association (CECA) has postponed its 2021 Halifax convention to June 2023. The CECA Board of Directors said the decision, announced in January, was based on Nova Scotia COVID-19 regulations regarding in-person meetings and a mandated two-week quarantine for anyone entering the prov...
Jan 26, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com REBUILT, MULTIBILLION-DOLLAR NYC BUS TERMINAL PLANNED The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey aims to rebuild its 70-year-old bus terminal at 625 Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, a project that will cost billions and unfold through 2030, ABC 7 was among outlets to report in January. Supported by both New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, t...
Jan 25, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com KONE EXECUTIVE BOARD CHANGES, NEW MD IN WESTERN EUROPE KONE recently announced changes on its executive board and a new managing director (MD) of Belgium and Luxembourg. Johannes Frnde was appointed executive vice president (EVP), general counsel and a member of the executive board. Based in Espoo, Finland, Frnde reports directly to KONE President and CEO Henrik Ehrnroo...
Jan 22, 2021•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com BLAIN HYDRAULICS OPENS SHANGHAI LOCATION Blain Hydraulics GmbH has opened a location in Shanghai in an effort to expand its footprint in China, the company announced. The move came within five years of the German supplier expanding in India, Turkey, Brazil and the U.S. Marking 50 years in business in 2021, Blain aims "to expand further and tap the hydraulic elevator seg...
Jan 21, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP MAINTAINING UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE VT SYSTEM thyssenkrupp Elevator is providing maintenance, including predictive maintenance, for the vertical-transportation (VT) system at the University of Seville in southern Spain, the OEM announced on January 19. The contract covers 161 passenger elevators, 22 small freight elevators, eight platform lifts and 22 chairli...
Jan 20, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com FERMATOR PLANT COLLAPSES FROM SNOW; PRODUCTION SHIFTS Fermator's 14,000-m2 Doors Movement Technology plant in Falset, Spain, collapsed as a result of heavy snowfall earlier this month, prompting production to shift to the Tecnolama S.A. plant in Reus, Spain, Fermator Group Sales Manager Eduard Amig said. Fortunately, he added, there were no injuries among the plants 120...
Jan 19, 2021•6 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Todays podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com:www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR (INDIA)S MEHAN AWARDED Manish Mehan, CEO and managing director, thyssenkrupp Elevator (India), was presented with the Master Entrepreneur Award in the "Engineering Industry" category at the Asia Pacific Enterprise Awards 2020. Given "for his remarkable contribution to the growth of thyssenkrupp Elevator in India, while also fulfilling his social re...
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