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Aiming to aggressively expand its Turkish market presence in 2018, Hyundai Elevator has launched a new sales strategy that involves securing more orders for elevators with speeds of 105 mpm and buildings with 20 or fewer stories. This is in addition to a strategy targeting developers of large projects, which helped result in installation volume rising "exponentially" in 2016 to approximately 1,000. In 2017, the South Korean company focused sales efforts on government entities, private developers and large construction companies, winning work on such projects as Metropol and Water Garden, both in Istanbul.. After winning 225 elevator installation orders in Turkey in the first two months of 2018, Hyundai Elevator intends to join the top three companies in the Turkish market "at the earliest possible date."
Smithsonian.com recently examined energy efficiency in elevators, highlighting a few OEM technological advances and products designed to be efficient. For example, to help reduce wasted energy, Otis uses its CompassPlus® destination-dispatching system to remove elevators from service when traffic is light and offers the Gen2® Switch™, which works on solar and wind power, while requiring less energy than a hairdryer. thyssenkrupp, which the source calls “a pioneer in vertical technology,” is credited with creating “a sleeping elevator” that wakes on command. Otherwise, its lights, fan and drive are off. Brad Nemeth, vice president of sustainability at thyssenkrupp Elevator Americas explained, “We’re actually producing more energy than we’re consuming.”
High Street Group of Cos., headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K., is betting big on demand for rental apartments, with projects underway or planned in U.K. cities such as Birmingham, Manchester and Salford totaling approximately GBP600 million (US$817 million), the Chronicle reports. High Street is preparing to build what will be Newscastle’s tallest building, Hadrian’s Tower, a 26-story structure with a sky lounge containing 162 apartments. The company also just purchased property in Birmingham. In all, High Street is bringing nearly 3,000 residences to the market.
A trio of 29-, 25- and 19-story apartment towers designed by Architectus and developed by Cbus Property is part of the rebirth of Epping, a northwest suburb of Sydney, that promises to see thousands of new homes delivered, SkyRise Cities reports. Located 100 m from Epping Train Station, The Langston will have approximately 460 apartments, along with 1,681 m2 of retail, 1,921 m2 of communal space and various infrastructure upgrades. Expected to start construction in January 2019, The Langston is part of the future Epping Town Centre, expected to deliver approximately 3,750 new homes within a short walk of the train station.
A 23-story tower designed by Antunovich Associates with 226 apartments, parking and 2,300 sq. ft. of retail is coming to the corner of Milwaukee Avenue and Carpenter Street in Chicago’s River West neighborhood, Curbed Chicago reports. Developers Tandem Partners and Rambaud Holdings aim to break ground later this year and finish the project, which could be branded as The Mill, in late 2019. Boasting a glass and brick façade, the development will set aside 45 units as “affordable” as one of the first large-scale projects to fall under the City of Chicago’s revised affordable-housing requirements. An existing low-rise building has been demolished, and a 40,000-sq.-ft. office building will be incorporated.
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https://skyrisecities.com/news/2018/04/three-tower-development-coming-sydney-suburb-epping
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