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RESORT, CASINO TOWER TO INCLUDE SYDNEY’S TALLEST HOTEL

Scheduled for completion in early 2021, casino operator Crown Resorts' 72-story resort and casino tower, Crown Residences at One Barangaroo, will include the tallest hotel in Sydney, The Urban Developer reports. The multibillion-dollar development from Australia's Lendlease will have 82 apartments and 349 hotel rooms on the Sydney Harbour overlooking the Harbour Bridge and Sydney Opera House. At ground level will be publicly accessible restaurants, a spa and gaming areas. To focus on the upscale aspect of the property, Crown plans to offer table games only. The WilkinsonEyre design involves 8,000 unique, individually cut glass panels that allow floor-to-ceiling windows throughout.

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KONE OPENS NEW WAREHOUSE IN INDIA

KONE Elevator India has opened a warehouse in Mumbai that will serve more than 2,500 customers and upcoming projects, ConstructionWeekOnline reports. The facility will stock more than 2,000 different parts for elevators, escalators and moving walks. “Our new warehouse reaffirms our commitment to our customers in India,” said KONE India Managing Director Amit Gossain. “Efficient supply of spare parts across our existing service network is imperative to complement our plan to increase our sales touch points.” He added that the company is well-positioned to support the growth that will come with a government push to develop smart cities and residential complexes.

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WORK BEGINS ON TALLEST RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN DENMARK

Ground engineering work has begun in Aarhus, Denmark, for Lighthouse 2.0, a 143-m-tall tower that, when complete, will be the country's tallest residential building, New Civil Engineer reports. The foundation work, being performed by Aarsleff Ground Engineering, will involve the installation of 28 drilled piles, each with a diameter of 2 m and a total maximum length of 70 m. Because of the waterfront area's soil composition and typical wind conditions, the drilled pile foundations are designed to place structural loads on the deeper subsoil, which will prevent long-term settling of the building. Lighthouse is among several developments along the Aarhus harbor. It is scheduled for completion in 2022.

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SKYSCRAPER PLANS SCALED BACK IN DETROIT

In Detroit, plans for a 480-ft-tall skyscraper are on hold, and those for another, Bedrock LLC's mixed-use tower on the former site of the J.L Hudson department store, have been scaled back from 62 stories, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat reports, citing the Detroit Free Press and Curbed Detroit. Michigan Opera Theatre, the entity behind the 480-ft-tall tower on the site of the 1922 Detroit Opera House, cited changing market conditions for its decision. Bedrock, meanwhile, announced in late January it still plans to create a "tremendously impactful" building, though it will not be the city's tallest. Ground was broken on the site in December 2017. Bedrock has hardly been idle in the Motor City, responsible for projects including the office-to-residential conversion of the David Stott Building, completed in summer 2019, that restored it to its 1929 Art Deco glory. Bedrock tells EW that Schindler handled elevator modernization, which was particularly challenging since the floorplan involved a "huge core in the center containing six elevators."

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2M LAUNCHES ACADEMY WITH TÜV SÜD, STARTS FACTORY IN INDIA

2M Holdings, parent company of 2M Lifts and Escalators, has partnered with TÜV SÜD to establish 2M Institute for lift and escalator training in India, including the country’s first digital industry training academy, near its manufacturing facility in Kalady. 2M is also launching a factory in the Kanjikode industrial area — its first to produce escalators — with a capacity of 2,000 elevators and 500 escalators per year. The factory is set to be operational later this year. 2M is a major exporter of lift and escalator parts, manufacturing approximately 40 different parts at various facilities in India and partnering with manufacturers in Coimbatore, Kolkata, Ludhiana, Ahmedabad and Pune. More than 70% of its parts are exported to Gulf Cooperation Council countries and the Far East. Noorhul Ameen is director of 2M Institute, which will offer a six-month lift certification program.

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SMARTRISE CONTROLLERS IN DENVER, TORONTO AND BERMUDA

Projects in Denver, Toronto and Hamilton, the capital of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda, are being outfitted with elevator systems that include Smartrise C4 controllers. The Denver project is a renovation of the roughly 10-story-tall, 141-unit Landmark East condominium tower served by 16-stop elevators. In Toronto, the nearly complete, 60-story mixed-use Wellesley on the Park, designed by KPMB Architects and drawing inspiration from Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, will open soon in the “heart of downtown” with more than 700 residential units, retail and office space. In Hamilton, the former HSBC Building, consisting of a double-height lobby topped by five floors, is being renovated by locally property owners the Green family to house retail, leisure space and office space. Redesign of the 80,000-ft2 building, which will be renamed The Point House, is being handled by Botelho Wood Architects.

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BROOKLYN STATION INAUGURATES NEW ELEVATORS

In a formal ceremony on January 31, the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) officially inaugurated the newly renovated Nostrand Avenue Station in Brooklyn, NYC, bringing the system closer to its goal of making all of its stations accessible, Newsday reported. The US$28-million makeover of the station included a number of improvements, including two new elevators. The station serves about 1,300 riders every weekday. “That means this station will truly be accessible for the first time for all who live, work and travel through this thriving neighborhood,” said LIRR President Phillip Eng. The upgrades to the station mean 106 of LIRR's 124 stations are now accessible. Two other stations — Murray Hill and Floral Park — are currently being fitted with elevators, and seven more will receive the upgrades under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's 2020-2024 capital program.

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THYSSENKRUPP DEBUTS SMART DATA WAREHOUSE IN MADRID

thyssenkrupp launched its new global spare-parts strategy with the inauguration today of the first smart data technological warehouse in the San Fernando de Henares municipality of Madrid. The 6,853-m2 facility is connected to the MAX predictive maintenance solution installed in 120,000 elevators worldwide. Information gathered by MAX “will be saved and analyzed for perfect scheduling of requests. . . .,” according to thyssenkrupp. To be joined soon by spare parts warehouses in the U.S., India and other European locations, the Madrid warehouse holds up to 9,800 different parts and components for maintenance and service. Reducing customer wait times and costs, the facility has the capacity to handle more than 1.4 million orders per year, an increase of 400% compared to the previous spare-parts system. The EUR3.5-million (US$3.8-million) facility is part of thyssenkrupp’s Spare Parts Business Excellence Initiative, which promises to “completely do away with the scattering of components in currently over 10,000 different storage locations.”

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PFLOW NAMES KOPPA COMPANY PRESIDENT

Milwaukee-based PFlow Industries, a designer and manufacturer of custom lifts and conveyor systems, has named Pat Koppa company president, CEO Ted Ruehl has announced. Koppa, who started in this role on October 31, 2019, was previously president of Power Test, Inc., a designer, manufacturer and implementer of dynamometers and test control systems, where he served as president. At Power Test, he was “instrumental in the establishment of a highly collaborative, aligned and accountable leadership team,” according to PFlow. In his new role, Koppa “will provide strong leadership to the entire workforce, establish short- and long-term goal plans and strategies and manage budgets to ensure resources are properly allocated.” Koppa holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA in Operations Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served seven years in the U.S. Navy.

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LARGEST DEVELOPMENT IN CANADA’S HISTORY IN MISSISSAUGA

A hotbed of high-rise residential construction, the Toronto suburb of Mississauga is coming into its own with the January 21 announcement of Square One District, a 37-tower mixed-use development that "promises to be the final lynchpin in the creation of Mississauga's downtown," Urban Toronto reports. Behind the plan are Oxford Properties Group (part of the team behind NYC's Hudson Yards and owner of the Square One Shopping Center in Mississauga, around which the district will take shape) and Alberta pension fund AIMCo. The source observes Square One District will be the largest development in Canada's history at 18 million ft2, larger than the previous record holder — the 12 million ft2 East Harbour in Toronto. Oxford, in partnership with The Daniels Corp., has gotten the greenlight for phase one, a pair of 36- and 48-story residential towers expected to break ground this summer. The development will feature a pedestrian thoroughfare lined with shops and restaurants known as The Strand.

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