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THYSSENKRUPP AND PARTNER OUTFIT PAKISTAN MALL
thyssenkrupp and strategic partner Global Business Bridge Ltd. have installed 32 elevators and 28 escalators at Pakistan's second-largest shopping center, Emporium Mall in Lahore. Covering 250,000 m2, the complex includes a hotel and conference center and sees approximately 44,000 visitors a day. The vertical-transportation solutions transport more than 3,500 passengers per hour. German Ambassador Martin Kobler and Pakistani entrepreneur Mian Mohammad Mansha attended the grand opening. Observing that Pakistan is an attractive distributor market — one of the five most important worldwide — thyssenkrupp said there is demand for approximately 1,000 new elevators per year.
NEW ELEVATORS IMPROVE ACCESS FOR PHILLY COMMUTERS
Life is about to get a little easier for commuters who use the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) 15th Street station in Philadelphia, as upgrades to the facility will include elevators, The Philadelphia Tribune reports. The station, plus another SEPTA facility at City Hall, are undergoing overhauls of a combined US$146 million. The work includes 14 new elevators, some of which are already operational. SEPTA currently has elevators at the 15th Street station and is in compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act, but the new elevators will expand capacity and add locations for accessibility, a spokesperson said. The work is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2019.
WORKER KILLED IN HOISTWAY AT CONSTRUCTION SITE
OSHA is investigating the death of an Ohio man who was working in the pit of a hoistway when the elevator car dropped on top of him, The Columbus Dispatch reports. The 45-year-old man was on the construction site of the five-story Mount Carmel Grove City Hospital in Grove City, Ohio, on April 18 when the car fell on him. Paramedics who responded to the call pronounced him dead at the scene. Construction at the site has been ongoing, the source said, and the facility's targeted opening date is in November.
LARGE PROJECT WITH PAIR OF TOWERS PLANNED IN HOLLYWOOD
Developer MP Los Angeles aims to start construction in 2022 on Hollywood Center, a US$1-billion, 1,005-unit residential project designed by Handel Architects distinguished by a pair of curving towers in downtown Hollywood, The Architect's Newspaper reports. Seismic concerns involving the property, currently occupied by a pair of parking lots that surround the Louis Naidorf-designed Capitol Records building, were alleviated after expert assessment and extensive geological testing. The plan includes glass-clad 46- and 25-story towers joined by a pair of 11-story apartment buildings containing "the largest number of affordable-dwelling units of any development in the history of the city."
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