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KONE PROVIDING VT FOR MUMBAI RESIDENTIAL HIGH RISE
KONE has been selected to provide the vertical-transportation (VT) for Lodha The Park, four residential towers that are approximately 270 m tall, or 81 stories, taking shape in Worli, downtown Mumbai. The order consists of 48 highrise, 5- to 6-mps MiniSpaceTM and nine machine-room-less MonoSpace® elevators, KONE's destination-dispatch system and the Remote CallTM smartphone elevator-call application. Approximately 3,400 people are expected to use the equipment daily. Developed by Lodha Developers Pvt. Ltd. and designed by WOHA Architects of Singapore, the buildings are slated for completion in September 2019.
2,000 ELEVATORS BEING REPLACED IN MOSCOW APARTMENTS
As part of a program launched in 2014 in which approximately 7,700 elevators have been replaced in apartment buildings in the Moscow region, 2,000 additional elevators will be replaced, Construction.RU reports. Rules adopted by the Moscow regional government will determine which specialists from the Russian Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Supervision will check the quality and reliability of the new units. The regional overhaul program covers close to 45,000 apartment buildings.
UPGRADES AT VANCOUVER TRANSLINK STATION INCLUDE VT
TransLink in Vancouver, Canada, is upgrading the Waterfront Station that serves the SeaBus ferry service over the Burrard Inlet between Vancouver and North Vancouver with new vertical-transportation equipment, a new entrance, ticket-vending machine and seismic equipment, News 1130 reports. There will be four replacement escalators, one replacement elevator and one new elevator, the source says. According to TransLink, 5.84 million passengers traveled between downtown Vancouver and the North Shore in 2017, a 7.3% increase over the previous year. The Waterfront Station work is expected to take approximately 15 months.
FIRST OF THREE DUBAI MARINA TOWERS COMPLETE
The Residences at Marina Gate 1, a 51-story tower with 399 residential units and an array of shops and amenities, is complete on Dubai Marina, with developer Select Group handing over properties to the owners, Arabian Business reports. The Residences at Marina Gate 1 is one of three towers that, according to Select Group CEO Rahail Aslam represent "luxury on a grand scale" with their design, varied floor plans and amenities. The 64-story Residences at Marina Gate 2 has topped out and delivery is scheduled for early 2019. The third tower, Jumeirah Living Marina Gate, is also "at an advanced stage of construction."
Photo: Mankiran Aujla for NEWS 1130 Photo:
http://www.news1130.com/2018/05/04/seabus-terminal-getting-multi-million-seismic-makeover/
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