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OTIS UNVEILS NEW PRODUCTS, CAMPAIGN IN LONDON
Otis unveiled its new Gen2® Life and SkyBuild elevators, along with a creative campaign, “Made to Move You,” during an event in London on October 27. Building on its best-selling Gen2 model, Gen2 Life adds more than 400,000 interior-design combinations aimed at providing continuity throughout a building’s architecture. SkyBuild joins the SkyRise family of products with a unit installed for crews and equipment that transitions to a SkyRise elevator once a project is complete. “Made to Move You” aims to “create a story thread between the connectivity and design aspects of the product and human connections that take place behind an elevator’s closed doors,” as illustrated in a short film.
WORLD’S TALLEST TIMBER TOWER PLANNED IN CHICAGO
If built, the 80-story River Beech Tower in Chicago would be the tallest wooden skyscraper in the world, Architecture News reports. Designed by Perkins + Will and conceived by engineering studio Thornton Tomasetti and a team from the University of Cambridge in the U.K., it boasts a diagonal-grid frame that gives it strength and allows it to largely forgo concrete and steel. Containing 300 apartments, River Beech Tower is envisioned as part of the massive Riverline redevelopment project along the Chicago River.
MOSCOW METRO ESCALATOR PROJECT MAKES HEADWAY
Four escalators that have operated since 1957 at the Frunzenskaya Station in the Moscow Metro are being replaced, with work approximately 60% complete, The City of Moscow reports. There are 150 workers onsite, and they have completed installation of four trusses and are beginning to install drag chains and steps. In all, the units will be fitted with 1,944 steps. The new units promise to enhance safety and efficiency at the station, which is used by almost 7,500 passengers an hour during peak times.
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