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EESF ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) recently released several announcements. First is the approval of its new three-year strategic plan, which envisions "A World Free of Elevator and Escalator Accidents." Next, its chairman, Mark Mullins, has been named to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety. Mullins is also Elevator Industry Work Preservation Fund national coordinator. Finally, it will be holding a Dessert Reception and First Annual Karaoke Dare during the National Association of Elevator Contractors 70th Annual Convention on September 16 at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Participants will bid to have singers croon karaoke renditions of their favorite songs. Tickets are US$100 in advance and US$120 at the door.

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SHANGHAI SYMPOSIUM: CALL FOR PAPERS

The 11th Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies has issued its first call for papers. Taking place on May 4-5, 2020, at the JW Marriott Hotel in Shanghai’s Tomorrow Square, it will bring together experts from across the industry and offer an opportunity for speakers to present peer-reviewed papers. The deadline for abstracts is November 30. Details on submissions can be found at website.

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BIRTHPLACE OF THE INTERNET GETS ELEVATOR UPGRADE

Boelter Hall, a building on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles known as the “birthplace of the internet,” is getting a new, DC geared basement traction car with a Smartrise Engineering controller, the company recently announced. On an October evening in 1969, the first host-to-host message through what we now call the internet was sent from a room in Boelter Hall to another “node” at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The new elevator installation marks the third Smartrise controller in use in the building.

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ELLIES AWARDS VOTING OPEN

Voting is open through August 31 for the second annual Ellies awards program, which recognizes excellence in the North American elevator and escalator industry. Each user (per Internet Protocol address) may vote for one company per category every 24 hr in each of the 18 categories. Winners in each of the six categories will be announced in the December issue of ELEVATOR WORLD and receive an official Ellies statuette and a custom "Winner" logo to use for print and on websites/emails.

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HITACHI TO PROVIDE 49 VT UNITS FOR OFFICE PARK IN BENGALURU

Hitachi Building Systems Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Lift India Pvt. Ltd. signed contracts to supply 49 elevators and escalators for Embassy Manyata in Bengaluru, India, the companies recently announced. The large office park project will include two office blocks, two international hotels and a convention center. Hitachi will provide 22 elevators for the office blocks, 13 elevators for the hotels and 10 elevators and four escalators for the convention center. The vertical transportation (VT) will feature a destination-floor reservation system.

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EFESME, EW EUROPE COLLABORATE

The European Federation for Elevator Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EFESME) has partnered with Elevator World, Inc. to make ELEVATOR WORLD Europe the official publication of EFESME. Starting with the September-October 2019 issue, EW Europe will devote an entire section to EFESME publications and articles. EFESME said the collaboration will help it "reach more countries and a larger audience, and extend the breadth of its voice in defense of the interests and needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, which the federation represents throughout Europe." The official launch of the partnership is set for October 17 during Interlift in Augsburg, Germany.

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OTIS SINGAPORE RESPONDS TO LENGTHY SMRT WORK

The Straits Times recently ran Otis Singapore’s response to concerns that work on an escalator refurbishment project at 42 SMRT Corp. stations in Singapore on the North-South and East-West lines would take a very long time. Only about 25% of the work has been completed since it began in summer 2016 (ELENET 567, 658 and 787). Otis said that due to the complexity of the units, each need about four months for refurbishment: a process that requires the removal, inspection, installation and replacement of more than 1,000 parts and major components. It added that each escalator being refurbished usually has one fixed team of workers assigned to it, rather than multiple teams working on it 24 hours a day. This, it says, helps “ensure seamless continuity of work.” Some escalators may take even longer than four months to complete due to additional issues discovered only after dismantling. This is the first major refurbishment of SMRT escalators since 1987, most of which is to be completed by 2022.

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HADID-DESIGNED TOWER WITH KONE VT SYSTEM OPENS IN MIAMI

The 62-story One Thousand Museum, the late Zaha Hadid's final residential tower in the U.S. (ELENET 723), is open in downtown Miami, The Architect's Newspaper reports. Zaha Hadid Architects told ELEVATOR WORLD the vertical-transportation (VT) system, which includes elevators and a car lift, was provided by KONE. At 707 ft tall the fourth-tallest structure in Florida, One Thousand Museum is striking, with a white concrete "web of flowing lines" on the façade that have earned it the nickname Scorpion Tower. Located on Biscayne Boulevard overlooking a 30-acre urban greenspace called Museum Park, One Thousand Museum holds 84 almost entirely column-free units and an array of amenities.

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EHC ESCALATOR HANDRAILS SELECTED FOR ONE VANDERBILT

Escalators in the upcoming NYC supertall One Vanderbilt will feature EHC Global's NT handrails, EHC announced. EHC, manufacturer of handrails, rollers, composite steel belts and components for the vertical-transportation industry, introduced the NT handrail platform in 1997 as "an environmentally friendly and technologically advanced alternative to conventional rubber-based products." EHC has provided escalator handrails and onsite splicing services to many landmark Manhattan projects, including One World Trade Center, Hudson Yards, Rockefeller Center and the Time Warner Center. 

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TJEI LANDS LARGEST ORDER TO DATE

Toshiba Johnson Elevators (India) Pvt. Ltd. (TJEI) recently announced winning its largest order to date in India for 128 elevators with 12-car group control system in Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB). The scope of work entails the supply, installation and maintenance of the units. The SDB, with a total built-up area of 620,000 m2, will become the single largest office building in the world, with 4,500 offices. “For the 15-story world’s single largest office building, designed to complement the diamond industry of Surat, enabling safe and easy navigation for large volumes of people is of prime importance," Junichi Kyushima, managing director, TJEI said. All the elevators will come with Destination Control Systems for seamless traffic handling. An elevator monitoring system is also one of the premium features being supplied by TJEI, along with interface provisions for access control, live TV, closed-circuit TV and more.

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