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OTIS JOB IN SAN FRANCISCO INCLUDES A WORLDWIDE FIRST
Otis has been selected to outfit the new Oceanwide Center in downtown San Francisco with 53 elevators and escalators. It will be the first development in the world to use the Otis CompassPlus® destination-dispatch system, which will allow the elevators to "more efficiently manage incoming, outgoing and interfloor traffic without having passengers travel back to the lobby or inconvenient transfer floors." Scheduled to open in 2022 in the South of Market neighborhood, Oceanwide Center consists of a 625-ft.-tall, 54-story residential/hotel and a 910-ft.-tall, 61-story residential/office tower along First Street.
EXTERNAL ELEVATOR FOR CHICAGO’s AON CENTER: DETAILS
Curbed Chicago has updated Chicago’s "battle for observation deck supremacy," involving 601W Cos., owner of the Aon Center, seeking approval to build a 1,000-ft.-long panoramic elevator to serve as a tourist attraction on its 82nd and 83rd floors. To cost US$185 million, the Solomon Cordwell Buenz-designed addition is angular to evoke the tower’s chevron-shaped vertical columns. A double-decker elevator enclosed in a glass shaft attached to the stone tower’s exterior would be among the tallest panoramic elevators in the world. Traveling at 1,200 fpm, it would also help alleviate overcapacity in the tower's current elevators. The source indicated the elevator and other proposed, related additions will require a zoning amendment, making them subject to city oversight and approval. However, construction could begin soon, as there is an optimistic timeline of a 2020 opening.
TAJIKISTAN PRESIDENT WANTS BELARUSIAN PLANT IN HIS COUNTRY
Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon is interested in Belarusian lift manufacturer Mogilevliftmash setting up an assembly plant in his country, Belarus News reports. Rahmon visited the Belarus National Expo, held in the Tajikistan capital Dushanbe, in May and familiarized himself with the company's elevators. The next step will be conducting a feasibility study on a potential plant, which would produce at least 500 elevators a year. Rahmon said a Mogilevliftmash facility in Tajikistan would serve not only the capital but the entire country, and create jobs.
NEII 2018 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII®) announced its 2018 directors and officers in May following its 84th annual meeting in Atlanta. Serving a one-year term, they are: Tom Vining (Otis Americas), president; Sterrett Lloyd (Draka Elevator Products), vice president; Michael Bauschka (KONE Americas), treasurer; Karen Penafiel (NEII), secretary; Larry Wash (KONE); Katsuji Okuda (Fujitec America, Inc.); Greg Ergenbright (Schindler); Erik Zommers (Mitsubishi Electric US, Inc.); and Jon McCabe (thyssenkrupp).
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