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Issue 4, Volume 3<br />
<strong>Cover</strong>: <strong>Serum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong><br />
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CONTENTS<br />
FEATURES:<br />
29 Project Spotlight<br />
<strong>Serum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> of <strong>India</strong><br />
by Fali D. Palkhivala<br />
47 <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
by James W. Fortune<br />
52 <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> Rises in Dubai<br />
by M.J. Mohamed Iqbal<br />
COLUMNS:<br />
Engineering<br />
54 Assumption on New Design of Two Safety Components<br />
by Huang Dongling and Xing Jian<br />
Field Stories<br />
40 Reminiscences<br />
by PVN Marar<br />
Market Spotlight<br />
76 100 Years of Korean Lift Industry<br />
by Euk Mahn Yang<br />
Market Trends<br />
34 Building Tall<br />
Reprinted from NAWIC Image<br />
Project Spotlight<br />
66 ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> Provides Equipment for T3<br />
by Sudhir Hingorani<br />
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DEPARTMENTS:<br />
4th Quarter<br />
Issue 4 Volume 3<br />
2010<br />
3 Editor’s Overview<br />
6 Comments<br />
8 Inside <strong>India</strong> News<br />
16 International Industry News<br />
86 Product Spotlight<br />
89 Marketplace<br />
90 <strong>India</strong> Source Directory<br />
96 Advertisers Index<br />
Public Safety<br />
26 Otis <strong>India</strong> Takes Safe T-Rider © Program to<br />
School Children<br />
58 Independent Safety Assessment for Transportation<br />
System<br />
by Kenneth Chan Man Wong<br />
Readers Platform<br />
36 Help Us Help<br />
by K. Subramanian<br />
62 Pitch for Entry into the<br />
<strong>India</strong>n <strong>Elevator</strong> Industry<br />
by Jayashri Murali and S.C. Sharada<br />
Technology<br />
38 Energy-Efficient Hydraulic Lifts<br />
78 Hydraulic <strong>Elevator</strong>s –<br />
Configuring the Power Unit<br />
by Parag Mehta
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Editor’s<br />
Overview<br />
The Tie That Binds<br />
This issue of ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong> contains numerous<br />
reports and articles on many aspects of the elevator<br />
industry. In a letter to the editor, Trevor Rodericks expresses<br />
his concern about the number of elevator accidents that<br />
have been occurring throughout <strong>India</strong>. He expresses the<br />
need for the industry to take steps to eliminate these<br />
unfortunate incidents. Aggressive elevator and escalator<br />
maintenance programs are suggested, along with the<br />
implementation of public-safety awareness programs such<br />
as the one offered by the recently established <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Escalator Safety Trust (EEST). Numerous opportunities<br />
are available to get involved with this effort and those<br />
who would like do so in <strong>India</strong> can contact the EEST at<br />
website: www.eest.in. To set up a similar program outside<br />
of <strong>India</strong>, you can contact the <strong>Elevator</strong> Escalator Safety<br />
Foundation in the U.S. at website: www.eesf.org. Additionally,<br />
the report in this issue on the recent presentation<br />
that Otis <strong>Elevator</strong> Co. made to grade-school children is a<br />
fine example of how you can bring this important safety<br />
program to your area of the world.<br />
Articles on the latest advancements in hydraulic ele -<br />
vator technology that describe energy-efficient systems<br />
now available are also presented in this issue. Property<br />
owners and their consultants should become familiar<br />
with and understand this technology so they can specify<br />
this type of equipment for their new elevator installation<br />
and modernization projects. This will ensure that they are<br />
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Of the 6,852 readers of EW <strong>India</strong>, over 2,000 own and/<br />
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ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong> • 4th Quarter 2010 •<br />
Comments<br />
ON THE RECENT SPATE<br />
OF INCIDENTS<br />
The accident reports found in this<br />
issue, beginning on page 8, are a few<br />
of the most recent that have occurred<br />
in some of <strong>India</strong>’s state capitals. Who<br />
is responsible for these losses of life<br />
and injuries?<br />
Recently, some of the doyens of<br />
the elevator industry met, and all<br />
stated that safety would be given priority.<br />
These recent accidents do not<br />
speak well of the commitment. Many<br />
will say, “It’s not my elevator,” or, “It<br />
was the user’s fault,” but no excuses<br />
can be accepted for the fatalities.<br />
Inquires are instituted, but will these<br />
see the light of the day?<br />
Who maintained these units? Who<br />
approved of the use of the elevators?<br />
Who is responsible for onsite safety?<br />
These questions should be answered,<br />
and action should be taken.<br />
Now that reports of these accidents<br />
have appeared in an international<br />
magazine, what will be the world’s<br />
opinion of the elevator/escalator<br />
safety standards in <strong>India</strong>? It is my<br />
hope that this letter will wake people<br />
to the need for corrective action to<br />
ensure the safety of workers and users.<br />
Trevor Rodericks<br />
tjrodericks@yahoo.com �<br />
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our readers at either the following<br />
postal, e-mail or Internet address:<br />
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ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong> reserves<br />
the right to edit comments<br />
for length and clarity.
OTIS INDIA AWARDED<br />
CONTRACT IN MUMBAI<br />
Otis <strong>India</strong> was awarded a contract to supply and install<br />
equipment in the 75-meter-high Capital office building in<br />
Mumbai. The installation of the equipment will start in<br />
February 2011 and is scheduled to be completed by<br />
mid 2011. The equipment includes 20 Gen2 ® elevators<br />
with ReGen drives, including 16 units equipped with<br />
Compass destination-management systems, in addition<br />
to six escalators. The Compass system delivers personalized<br />
elevator service to help improve lobby traffic flow,<br />
while integrating a security interfacing for elevator dispatching.<br />
The elevator’s regenerative drives recapture<br />
electrical energy that would otherwise be wasted and<br />
returns it to the building’s power grid for reuse.<br />
The building also features other energy-efficient technologies,<br />
including specially glazed windows to help control<br />
the building’s temperature and a rainwater recycling<br />
system. One of the most distinct features of the building<br />
is part of its exterior shape, which looks like an egg. The<br />
egg features an LED screen, which provides interior<br />
shading without blocking any natural light or views to the<br />
outdoors. During the day, the exterior acts as a mirror,<br />
reflecting the surrounding cityscape, while at night, the<br />
LED lights are illuminated like a television, providing news<br />
and business information.<br />
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ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong> • 4th Quarter 2010 •<br />
Divekar<br />
BOY LOSES HAND IN ELEVATOR ACCIDENT<br />
In August, The Times of <strong>India</strong> reported on an accident<br />
in which a 14-year-old boy lost his hand attempting to<br />
open the grille door of an elevator in Mankhurd. According<br />
to the report, the boy reached through the door with<br />
a badminton racquet in an attempt to punch the dooropen<br />
button on the stalled elevator, but instead pushed<br />
the button for the fifth floor. This caused the elevator to<br />
rise with his hand trapped in the door. He was taken to<br />
the hospital, but in the rush to get him to treatment, his<br />
severed hand was not retrieved in time to be reattached.<br />
The boy and his family had moved to the apartment<br />
building in which the incident occurred after losing their<br />
home as a result of a road-widening project in Sewri. A<br />
public interest litigation on elevator safety has been filed.<br />
TRAINING COURSE ON LIFTS<br />
The Maharashtra government held a<br />
training course on Lifts – Maintenance<br />
and Repairs on October 15. Varsha<br />
Divekar, sectional electrical engineer from<br />
the Maharashtra public-works department<br />
(who is also a statutory lift inspector for<br />
the state) delivered a four-hour lecture,<br />
which was attended by 35 engineers<br />
from across Maharashtra. Continued
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WORLD TRADE CENTRE IN BENGALURU<br />
The Brigade Group has obtained the license to classify<br />
and manage its 1.1-million-square-foot Brigade North<br />
Star as the <strong>World</strong> Trade Centre (WTC) Bengaluru. The<br />
group has secured the license from the WTC Association<br />
for the Bengaluru property, which is a part of the 40-acre<br />
mixed-use Brigade Gateway development. The WTC is<br />
likely to commence operations by March 2011. As of<br />
August, the group was already discussing possible tenants<br />
for the WTC, which might also see trade missions<br />
and consulates setting up there. The commercial development<br />
has taken about three years to complete. The<br />
integrated enclave is likely to have 1,260 apartments, a<br />
200-plus key Sheraton hotel, an Orion mall, a multiplex,<br />
an <strong>India</strong>n Certificate of Secondary Education school and<br />
a Columbia Asia hospital on campus.<br />
SEVEN PEOPLE TRAPPED IN ELEVATOR<br />
According to The Times of <strong>India</strong>, in September, seven<br />
people were trapped in an elevator in an elevated pedestrian<br />
walkway in Pragati Maidan. The people were said to<br />
have been stuck for 45 minutes. Information about the<br />
cause of the entrapment and the way the people were<br />
released was not available at press time.<br />
ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong> • 4th Quarter 2010 •<br />
TALL PARKING FACILITY FOR MUMBAI<br />
The Birhanmumbai Municipal Corp. (BMC) and traffic<br />
department have approved a plan to construct a multistory<br />
parking facility for state buses and private cars at<br />
the junction of Senapati Bapat Marg and Pandurang<br />
Budhkar Marg in Lower Parel, Mumbai. The 14-story<br />
structure’s design will be based on that of New York’s<br />
Greyhound bus terminal. Developed by DLF Developers<br />
and designed by architect Hafeez Contractor on a 16-acre<br />
private plot, the project is expected to accommodate 172<br />
state buses and 3,000 cars.<br />
Contractor said that the planned facility will provide<br />
for the washing of buses with sewage treated water. He<br />
also noted:<br />
“On the ground floor, there will be a taxi-waiting area<br />
meant for taxi-drops. It would accommodate about 70 to<br />
100 vehicles. We will also have a huge concourse area<br />
with ticketing counters, restrooms and food kiosks on the<br />
ground floor. We will have separate ramps for cars and<br />
buses, and 10-12 elevators for cars.”<br />
The first floor, at a height of 7.5 meters, would be connected<br />
to the Elphinstone Road flyover. Vehicles entering<br />
the terminal at the ground floor would exit onto the<br />
flyover. The proposal is yet to get the state government’s<br />
approval.
SCHINDLER INDIA CONTRACTS<br />
Schindler <strong>India</strong> announced two major contracts in<br />
October. In the first, the company is to provide and install<br />
elevators for 40 stations serving Phase 1 of the Bangalore<br />
City metro. The locations will serve transportation needs<br />
between Bayanapalli and MG Road. The new line is<br />
scheduled for completion by September 2012 and will be<br />
equipped with 127 elevators. Schindler’s elevators will be<br />
produced in China and are energy efficient.<br />
Schindler <strong>India</strong> had also been chosen to supply 28<br />
high-speed elevators for a commercial project in South<br />
Mumbai. The company is the sole supplier of elevators<br />
for the complex, which is the first high-end commercial<br />
development of its kind in Central Mumbai’s emerging<br />
Central Business District. The development will include a<br />
large central landscaped plaza, food courts, a clubhouse<br />
and recreation areas.<br />
FATAL MUMBAI ELEVATOR INCIDENT<br />
According to DNA <strong>India</strong>, a 40-year-old man died after<br />
falling into an elevator shaft from the sixth floor of a<br />
building in Lower Parel, Mumbai, on September 12. He<br />
reportedly fell through an open lift door. The incident<br />
remained under investigation in September.<br />
Bruyère<br />
OTIS INDIA NAMES<br />
NEW MANAGING DIRECTOR<br />
In July, Otis <strong>India</strong> named Laurent<br />
Bruyère managing director. Laurent<br />
began his career in 1985 with Otis France<br />
and, in 2006, became managing director<br />
of Otis Switzerland. He has a Master’s<br />
degree in Mechanical Engineering from<br />
École d’ingénieur de L’Innovation de<br />
L’Energie et des Technologies Avancées<br />
(ESME-Sudria) in Paris.<br />
HIGHER FEES MAY AFFECT<br />
HIGH RISES IN BOPAL<br />
The Times of <strong>India</strong> recently reported that those planning<br />
to buy a residential unit in a high-rise tower in Bopal<br />
may find that the cost has risen. The state urban development<br />
department has recommended charging an additional<br />
floor-space-index (FSI) in Bopal, which is located in<br />
the Ahmedabad district of the state of Gujarat. Although<br />
Bopal only had a population of 12,181 in the census of<br />
2001, it has been growing recently. Developers have<br />
introduced plans for about 30 new high-rise apartment<br />
buildings in the 400-hectare residential zone. However,<br />
Continued<br />
• Issue 4, Volume 3 • elevatorworldindia.com<br />
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Inside <strong>India</strong> News Continued<br />
the Ahmedabad Urban Development Authority (AUDA)<br />
introduced a new zone classification on April 30.<br />
The government has been seeking ways to cover the<br />
cost of the increased infrastructure needed for the developments.<br />
The recommendation of charging a fee for<br />
extra FSI in the new zone was presented to the AUDA in<br />
August. It is estimated that prices could rise 25% due to<br />
the zone changes and the FSI increase.<br />
NAVI MUMBAI ELEVATOR<br />
ACCIDENT LEAVES FOUR DEAD<br />
According to The Times of <strong>India</strong>, four construction<br />
workers died on September 25 when the makeshift elevator<br />
they were riding stopped functioning and fell to the<br />
ground. The elevator was located at a construction site in<br />
Navi Mumbai. The cause of the malfunction was not yet<br />
determined at press time.<br />
THYSSENKRUPP RECEIVES<br />
MUMBAI, PUNE PROJECTS<br />
ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> (<strong>India</strong>) Mumbai Zone announced<br />
in August that it was awarded three orders from construction<br />
group K. Raheja Constructions. The company<br />
will supply and install five gearless elevators with a rated<br />
load of 1020 to 1088 kg, reaching a speed up to 2 mps;<br />
and two geared elevators with a rated load of 544 kg,<br />
reaching a speed up to 1.5 mps. This equipment is for residential<br />
buildings Raheja Interface and Raheja Heights in<br />
Mumbai, and Raheja Gardens in Pune.<br />
In June, ThyseenKrupp received a larger order from Vijay<br />
Associates (Wadhwa Developers). The order includes 32<br />
gearless elevators, 25 of which have a rated load of 1000<br />
to 1600 kg and speeds up to 2.5 mps, and seven with a<br />
rated load of 630 to 1000 kg and speeds up to 1 mps<br />
(including one with opposite openings), all of which<br />
will be installed in two residential projects, Palm beach<br />
Residency in Nerul, Navi Mumbai and Viceroy Park in<br />
Dahisar, Mumbai. Start and completion dates for the<br />
projects were not available at press time.<br />
EEST UPDATE<br />
The <strong>Elevator</strong> and Escalator Safety Trust (EEST) has<br />
been receiving support from the industry, but there is still<br />
a long way to go. Neeta Deole, the trust director, has been<br />
in touch with many companies for resource support and<br />
has received a positive response. She has also been discussing<br />
with them how the initiative can have a wider<br />
reach. In addition to the initial approach to conduct programs<br />
in schools, the idea was to take the program to<br />
other malls and other public gatherings, and translate<br />
the Safe-T Rider © program DVD to regional languages in<br />
order to reach a wider audience.<br />
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Several schools have been approached to conduct the<br />
program. However, due to festivities season and midterm<br />
examinations approaching, the programs could not<br />
be conducted. However, all requests will be converted<br />
into appointments once the schools reopen after the<br />
Diwali vacation. Otis has conducted programs at the<br />
Hiranandani Foundation School and the Gundecha<br />
Education Academy. Since July, 2,600 children have been<br />
reached with the Safe-T Rider program (see page 26 ).<br />
The following donations have been received:<br />
Apex <strong>Elevator</strong>s: INR25,000 (US$567)<br />
Royal <strong>Elevator</strong>s: INR5,000 (US$113)<br />
Sematic Re: INR25,000 (US$567)<br />
CITY LIFTS PROVIDES EQUIPMENT<br />
City Lifts has received an order to supply 29 elevators<br />
(reaching speeds of 1 to 3.5 mps) for Hiranandani Realty<br />
for the upscale project on Old Mahabalipuram Road in<br />
Chennai. As of October, six elevators were already<br />
installed. City Lifts also received an order to install nine<br />
panoramic elevators for the RRS Towers in Hyderabad.<br />
In addition, City Lifts will supply elevators for the Ackruti<br />
Star commercial complex and Ackruti Solaris in Mumbai.<br />
The orders include seven machine-room-less (MRL) elevators<br />
(six of which are panoramic) for Ackruti Star,<br />
which will also have an automatic car-parking system,<br />
and 19 MRL units (two groups of eight elevators each<br />
and one group of three elevators) for Ackruti Solaris at<br />
Andheri, Mumbai.<br />
PEOPLE TRAPPED IN<br />
MUMBAI MALL ELEVATOR<br />
According to a report from mumbaimirror.com, 17<br />
people were trapped in an elevator in a Mumbai mall for<br />
more than five hours in August. The lift stalled between<br />
the first floor and the ground floor. Mall officials tried to<br />
open the door, but the space between the elevator and<br />
the first floor was too small for passengers to crawl<br />
through. Mall management and lift technicians tried to<br />
free the passengers for two hours but eventually called<br />
the lift manufacturing company. However, it was also unable<br />
to free the passengers due to the safety mechanism<br />
of the lift, which could not be unlocked. Ultimately, the<br />
fire department had to use a forklift to lift the cabin up<br />
one floor, allowing enough space for the passengers to be<br />
rescued. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the<br />
elevator stalling was not determined as of press time.<br />
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WORKSHOP AT<br />
ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTES<br />
As part of its commitment to the building industry, TAK<br />
Consulting conducted two workshops on “Fundamentals<br />
of Good <strong>Elevator</strong>ing” at the Rizvi College of Architecture<br />
and the Kamala Raheja <strong>Institute</strong> for Architecture. The<br />
three-hour workshop, conducted on an honorary basis<br />
for these colleges, was led by TAK Mathews and Snehal<br />
Toralkar. Professor Albert D’Souza of Rizvi College wrote,<br />
“We appreciate your coming to our college and enlight -<br />
ening us on the subject of elevators. It has been very<br />
informative and instructive.” Lalitha Subramanian, registrar<br />
of the Kamala Reheja <strong>Institute</strong>, wrote, “It was a great<br />
learning experience for all students.” The institute plans<br />
to make the lecture part of its annual curriculum.<br />
STATE PLANS TO OUTSOURCE<br />
ELEVATOR INSPECTIONS<br />
The Maharashtra state government announced in September<br />
that it plans to partially outsource its lift inspection<br />
work. As of September 27, Gujarat was the only state<br />
to have outsourced the work, according to a report from<br />
The Times of <strong>India</strong>.<br />
An official of the energy department which inspects elevators,<br />
noted:<br />
“On an average, around 5,000 to 6,000 multistoried<br />
buildings with elevators are constructed in the state every<br />
year. The current figure of 80,000 is likely to shoot up<br />
exponentially in [the] future. In order to cope with the burden,<br />
the government, which does not have enough staff,<br />
has decided to outsource the inspection work of elevators<br />
to certified companies.”<br />
A committee headed by the chief electrical engineer,<br />
energy department, was appointed by the state to suggest<br />
measures to improve a lift inspector’s work. The panel<br />
that submitted a report recommended that the consultants<br />
have at least five years of experience. The government<br />
had 61 posts of junior engineers, around 35 of which<br />
were filled. However, according to an official, even when<br />
all of the positions are filled, the staff will not be large<br />
enough to efficiently complete the job.<br />
The Times of <strong>India</strong> also reported that though the<br />
Bombay Lift Act of 1939 and the Bombay Lift Rules 1958<br />
say that elevators should be inspected every six months,<br />
the state-appointed panel said one check every two years<br />
would be sufficient. The rationale between the inspection<br />
differences is based on how the earlier systems worked<br />
on electromechanical technology, but now it has become<br />
computer oriented. More frequent checks are not required,<br />
but surprise checks will be conducted.<br />
VASAI LIFT STALLS, DROPS A FLOOR<br />
According to the Mumbai Mirror, a 28-year-old woman<br />
and her three-year-old son were entrapped in a lift that<br />
later fell one floor on October 12. The incident occurred<br />
in an apartment complex in Vasai, a historical village in<br />
Mumbai. After the lift fell, the woman’s husband and a<br />
building watchman were able to open the wooden door<br />
and iron gate of the lift to rescue the passengers. Various<br />
complaints have been filed, while the incident remains<br />
under investigation.<br />
TRIO ELEVATORS<br />
Trio <strong>Elevator</strong>s Co. (<strong>India</strong>) Ltd. is a joint venture of Otis<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Co. (<strong>India</strong>) Ltd. and Trio <strong>Elevator</strong>s Pvt. Ltd. (now<br />
known as Alps Technologies Pvt. Ltd.). This venture<br />
intends to explore economies of scale and improvement<br />
in technology, opportunities for optimization of costs,<br />
achievement of better quality and higher safety, provision<br />
of quality goods and services at competitive prices, and<br />
possibilities of achieving synergies in operations in the<br />
fieleds of sales, installation, commissioning, modernization<br />
repair and service of elevators.<br />
Otis (<strong>India</strong>) is a part of the United Technologies Corp. and<br />
has been engaged in the business of sales, installation,<br />
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commissioning, modernization, repair and service of elevators<br />
and escalators in <strong>India</strong> for more than 53 years.<br />
Alps Technologies has been in the elevator business of<br />
sales, installation, commissioning, modernization repair<br />
and service of elevators for more than 25 years and has a<br />
27% market share in the state of Gujarat. The company<br />
continues manufacturing elevator parts at its Kalol factory<br />
and supplies all the parts of the new joint venture.<br />
Trio <strong>Elevator</strong>s is the first second-tier brand of Otis<br />
(<strong>India</strong>) and will deal mainly in the manual and lower-end<br />
segments of automobile and goods elevators. It will also<br />
deal in stretcher, rear and three-sided glass, as well as<br />
similar types of elevators. The company has taken over<br />
the complete business operation, including of the sales,<br />
installation, commissioning, erection, modernization,<br />
repair and service of elevators and escalators.<br />
History<br />
In 1974, Trio <strong>Elevator</strong>s was established by a group of<br />
entrepreneurs as a service company. The company<br />
strived to prove quick response, eliminate large shutdowns,<br />
make day and night service available, and pay<br />
special attention to emergencies and special occasions. It<br />
eventually set up a manufacturing plant at Naroda, which<br />
delivered its first shipment of material to the Ahmedabad<br />
opera house on February 5, 1981. In the same year, Trio<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong>s completed 10 lifts. Over the following 18<br />
months, the company completed 17 elevators.<br />
Outlook<br />
Trio <strong>Elevator</strong>s is constantly reviewing, researching and<br />
reorganizing aspects of its operations, technology and<br />
services in order to further improve upon them. It has<br />
undertaken a quest to live out its slogan “Trio is Trio –<br />
The Name Which You Can Trust.” Markets it currently targets<br />
includes Gujarat (such as Bhuj, Palanpur and Vapi),<br />
and Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.<br />
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MAN FALLS TO HIS DEATH<br />
IN LIFT ACCIDENT<br />
The Times of <strong>India</strong> reported in September that a security<br />
guard from Thane fell eight stories to his death after an<br />
attempt to jump out of a stuck elevator in a residential<br />
tower. According to residents of the building, the man<br />
was stuck in the elevator between the eighth and ninth<br />
floors before he fell more than 70 feet. A resident added<br />
that the man did not press the alarm button inside the lift<br />
but instead opened the doors himself and jumped. Fire<br />
officials did not know the cause of the elevator’s malfunction<br />
but said that it may have developed a mechanical<br />
problem. The lift is said to have safety plans in place to<br />
reduce this type of malfunction if passengers stay in the<br />
elevator and wait for rescue officials. This is the second<br />
incident in Thane in which a passenger died jumping to a<br />
lower floor from a stuck elevator.<br />
In<br />
Memoriam<br />
ALISTER PINTO<br />
Trevor Rodericks has notified ELEVATOR WORLD<br />
<strong>India</strong> that Alister Pinto died on July 25 in New York. An<br />
industrial engineer, he obtained his degree from Victoria<br />
Jubilee Technical <strong>Institute</strong>. After working with Ex-cello,<br />
Pinto joined Otis-<strong>India</strong>, where his<br />
expertise was the production line. He<br />
also designed field-friendly tools. After<br />
working with Otis for 27 years, he retired<br />
and moved to the U.S. Rodericks<br />
remembered of Pinto, “He was the center<br />
of a party with his guitar, belting<br />
out songs of old.” He is survived by his<br />
wife Doris, children and grandchildren.<br />
KASHMIRA BHARUCHA<br />
Kashmira “Kash” Bharucha passed away on October<br />
4. She was one of the first employees to join Schindler<br />
<strong>India</strong> when it set up its operations in<br />
1998. Despite struggling with a severe<br />
illness, she attended work until August.<br />
Kash was often referred to by colleagues<br />
as “The Pillar of Schindler <strong>India</strong>”<br />
and was recognized as Employee of<br />
the Year in 2006. She is survived by<br />
her husband Sam and two sons<br />
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China<br />
SYMAX AWARDED<br />
GOVERNMENT CONTRACT<br />
Symax Lift Holding Co. Ltd., an assembler and manufacturer<br />
of elevators and escalators, announced in August<br />
that it has entered into a contract with Wuxi Hua Fang<br />
Property Development Co Ltd. to manufacture and install<br />
66 elevators valued at CAD1.9 million (US$1.83 million)<br />
for a government-funded residential development project.<br />
According to Symax CEO Xiaoyan (Sabrina) Zhang, this<br />
job will bring the total of government-funded projects<br />
awarded to Symax since June to CAD7 million (US$6.74<br />
million).<br />
Symax will also provide repair and maintenance services<br />
for three years following the project’s completion.<br />
Delivery and installation is expected to commence in<br />
November, with completion scheduled for March 2011.<br />
WEE 2012 CHANGES LOCATION<br />
Sponsored by the China <strong>Elevator</strong> Association, the biannual<br />
global elevator event <strong>World</strong> <strong>Elevator</strong> & Escalator<br />
Expo (WEEE) 2012 has changed locations to accommodate<br />
its expansion. The event will be held on May 16-19,<br />
2012, at China Import and Export Fair Complex (Canton<br />
Fair Complex) in Guangzhou. The event has been held in<br />
Langfang for the past three sessions. Guangzhou is considered<br />
the geographical and economical center of South<br />
China. For more information, contact Ma Zhentao at<br />
e-mail: expo@cea-net.org or phone: (1) 336-365-8885.<br />
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CE NET ELEVATOR SIGNS CONTRACT<br />
WITH CHONGQING SHUANGFU<br />
On August 30, New <strong>Elevator</strong> Weekly announced that<br />
CE Net <strong>Elevator</strong> Co. of Germany signed a contract with<br />
Chongqing Shuangfu New Area. The signing ceremony<br />
took place in a Shaungfu administration office building.<br />
The project includes a 120-meter-high elevator test tower,<br />
which is expected to be complete in one year. The tower<br />
is planned to manufacture 1,000 elevators within the first<br />
year and eventually reach 5,000 elevators in the second<br />
and third years. It is expected that 70% of the manufactured<br />
products will be sold in China, with the remaining<br />
sold internationally.<br />
YUANDA GROUP EXPANDING ITS BRAND<br />
New <strong>Elevator</strong> Weekly reported in September that the<br />
Yaunda Group is still aiming to sell its elevators to every<br />
corner of the world. In 2003, the group started from<br />
scratch by constructing the elevator enterprise Brilliant<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong>. The group also set up 29 branch companies<br />
in China. By 2006, Brilliant <strong>Elevator</strong> was exporting to<br />
Australia and became one of the first elevator enterprises<br />
entering that market.<br />
Toward the end of 2008, Yaunda Group started to<br />
break out with new technology and successfully landed a<br />
contract for the 2012 London Olympic Games. In addition,<br />
Brilliant <strong>Elevator</strong> landed a subway project to install<br />
38 elevators and two escalators at Shenyang Line 1. The<br />
group has some of the fastest elevator speeds in the<br />
industry and offers third-generation machine-room-less<br />
products, with 23 self-core technologies, which are capable<br />
of saving up to 40% in energy consumption in comparison<br />
to traction elevators.<br />
SCHINDLER TO SUPPLY<br />
ESCALATORS FOR RAIL EXPANSION<br />
The Ministry of Railways has awarded a contract to<br />
Schindler for 353 escalators to be installed in 17 stations as<br />
part of a railway expansion project. The contract involves<br />
eight regional railway companies. All the escalators will<br />
come from Schindler’s production facility in Shanghai,<br />
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and include indoor and outdoor installations. The project<br />
also has a tight schedule. Installation of the first escalators<br />
began in September, and it is planned that all 353<br />
will be in place by May 2011.<br />
According to Schindler, one of the reasons it received<br />
the contract was the company’s production capacity and<br />
its extensive network of branches throughout China. The<br />
stations involved are situated in major cities across the<br />
entire length of the country, from Changchun in the far<br />
north to Guangzhou on China’s south coast, with more<br />
than 3,000 kilometers separating those on either end of<br />
the network.<br />
Indonesia<br />
JAKARTA BUILDING DEVELOPMENT SHIFTS<br />
Property consultants at PT Procon Indah reported in<br />
July that developers are moving southward to construct<br />
new office buildings in the capital city in search of more<br />
affordable land prices and a specific image. The company’s<br />
data as of the second quarter of 2010 showed that South<br />
Jakarta had almost 20% of all high-rise offices in the city.<br />
Over the last five years, the demand for office space in<br />
South Jakarta has increased by 29%, while the same in<br />
demand in other parts of Jakarta increased by 15%.<br />
Procon Indah’s research and consulting head Utami<br />
Prastiana said, “South Jakarta has a prime neighborhood<br />
image. It is surrounded by established prime residential<br />
and commercial developments.” Prastiana also added that<br />
as many as 90% of companies in South Jakarta preferred<br />
to buy instead of rent office space.<br />
Iran<br />
GOLESTAN PROVINCE<br />
ELEVATORS INSPECTED<br />
Donya-ye-Asansor recently reported that an agreement<br />
was reached that should allow the inspection of all new<br />
elevators in Golestan province. Alireza Tajari stated on<br />
the website of the Standard and Industrial Research<br />
Organization of Golestan that the mayors of the province<br />
agreed that the issuance of certifications of completion of<br />
construction will be dependent upon elevators receiving<br />
an inspection certification. Tajari, who is the mechanical<br />
expert for the Standard and Industrial Research Organization<br />
of Golestan, explained his organization should be<br />
able to inspect all newly installed elevators in accordance<br />
with this agreement.<br />
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Israel<br />
GREEN OFFICE TOWER<br />
PROGRESSES IN TEL AVIV<br />
In September, the first phase of Tel Aviv’s new green<br />
office building was nearing completion. Constructed by<br />
brothers Ronen and Alon Azouri, the unnamed 20-story<br />
tower uses recycled, sustainable and domestic building<br />
materials and ecological maintenance procedures for a<br />
long-term low impact on the environment. The project is<br />
located on Hamasger Street, which is to be at the heart of<br />
Tel Aviv’s light-rail route expected to be operational in<br />
five years.<br />
The building is scheduled to open in March 2011, but it<br />
is expected that its first tenants will start moving in as<br />
early as January. The first seven floors have already been<br />
sold. Some of the green features include water recycling<br />
that is expected to save up to 13,000 liters per day. In<br />
addition, the use of insulated glass will allow up to 62%<br />
natural light into the building, while keeping out at least<br />
25% of the sun’s heat. Solar panels will be placed on the<br />
roof, and the possibility of using wind turbines is being<br />
considered.<br />
With the help of Israeli architect Keren Yedvub and<br />
British green building consultant Guy Battle, the Azouri<br />
brothers designed the tower with a continuous filtered<br />
fresh air system and online-monitored climate control, a<br />
condensed recycled cardboard material from Germany<br />
for exterior coatings, and parquet floors of certified wood<br />
from sustainable forests. Battle expects the tower to<br />
achieve a silver or gold level equivalent in the Leadership<br />
in Energy and Environmental Design rating system.<br />
Italy<br />
SEMATIC ACHIEVES<br />
WORLDWIDE CERTIFIED QUALITY<br />
At the end of July, the quality management system of<br />
the Sematic Group was certified according to the ISO<br />
9001:2008 standard for all activities related to the “design,<br />
manufacturing, sales and after sales of complete doors,<br />
cabins, steel work, safety gears and related components<br />
for passengers and goods lift/elevator.” Sematic is one of<br />
the first companies in the elevator component business<br />
to achieve this important recognition at the worldwide<br />
level, since the certification covers not only its single productive<br />
sites (Italy, the U.K., China, Hungary, the U.S. and<br />
Mexico), but also its global, integrated quality management<br />
system that established common policies and goals<br />
for all the group companies.<br />
ISO 9001:2008 certification demonstrates Sematic’s<br />
capacity to provide, from each of its manufacturing plants<br />
all over the world, products and services that conform to
market requirements, via a management system set up<br />
in line with a process model that emphasizes the cen -<br />
trality of the customer and the commitment of Sematic<br />
top management and entire organizations to continuous<br />
improvement.<br />
The certification specifies that all Sematic units have<br />
the same approach to business and customers, with standardization,<br />
repeatable and cost-effective processes and<br />
activities, oriented to the ongoing development of the<br />
organization and the sharing of its best internal practices.<br />
In order to achieve these goals, Sematic carried out<br />
several quality improvement actions, defined and coordinated<br />
at the corporate level and locally developed, such<br />
as the constant monitoring of quality and performance key<br />
indicators, the implementation of internal (in addition to<br />
external) audit plans, the integrated management of<br />
claims, as well as the development of IT systems for the<br />
management of quality-related processes.<br />
Sematic Group Chairman and CEO Roberto Zappa<br />
explained:<br />
“Achieving a high quality level in the products and services<br />
provided to customers is a key requirement in order<br />
to maintain the market position we have achieved for our<br />
future development.”<br />
Sematic Group Quality, H&SE Manager Marcello Aiolfi<br />
added:<br />
“Sematic Quality process aims to maximize customer satisfaction<br />
through the constant improvement of company<br />
procedures and the prevention of any possible reason for<br />
dissatisfaction.”<br />
The combination of high-value-added ISO 9001 certified<br />
operations, fully integrated manufacturing processes and<br />
its global industrial presences makes Sematic a strategic<br />
supplier for today’s demanding elevator market.<br />
Japan<br />
JSEA TETHER COMPETITION RESULTS<br />
The Japan Space <strong>Elevator</strong> Association (JSEA) announced<br />
the winners of its second technical and engineering competition<br />
at Nihon University’s research ground in Chiba in<br />
August. The event, which took place on August 6-9, had<br />
teams participate in six categories, including speed, control<br />
and safety.<br />
Selected results for the Tether/Belt Competition were<br />
as follows:<br />
◆ Grand prize and speed winner: Kanagawa University’s<br />
Egami Team B, which had its climber travel 300 meters<br />
in 2 minutes and 36 seconds.<br />
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different thickness tethers, as well as to be<br />
able to deal with twisting from the wind.<br />
◆ Maintainability winner: The Earth-Track-Controllers<br />
Team CHAD designed its climber to be able to attach to<br />
the tether faster than any other team.<br />
◆ “Other functionality” winner: Team Okuzawa, the<br />
climber of which had the ability to log a variety of data<br />
to be able to analyze any problems it may encounter.<br />
It also included a variety of other features such as realtime<br />
data transfer.<br />
Kanagawa University’s team was also the only one to<br />
have its climber climb the tether to the top and come<br />
down safely in the harsh wind. Furthermore, its speed<br />
was greater than that of last year’s winner.<br />
The tether/rope competition was won by the University<br />
of Saskatchewan, College of Engineering Space Design<br />
Team, which had the only entry to reach the 300-meter<br />
goal. The final competition, “Endurance LASER,” saw<br />
LEGO ® climbers climb to an altitude of 100 meters for the<br />
first time. Of the five teams participating, three made it to<br />
the top.<br />
Yoshio Aoki, Technical and Engineering judge, reflected<br />
on the competition?<br />
“Last year, the competition concentrated on speed, but<br />
this year, there were six categories . . . and this made it a<br />
much tighter race. With the participation of two international<br />
teams, teams from Japan also had the opportunity<br />
to exchange ideas and see some differences in design and<br />
different points of view of their international counterparts.<br />
Next year, with the plan to hold the competition to<br />
a height of 600 meters, we expect automated control to<br />
be one of the upcoming themes for the climbers. We<br />
expect the number of technical members in our organi -<br />
zation and participants in next year’s competition to only<br />
increase.”<br />
The aim of the competition was to help encourage the<br />
development of technologies related to realizing a space<br />
elevator. JSEA aims to double the tether length for this<br />
competition each year, and create regulations and evaluate<br />
categories that will help progress technologies related<br />
to the realization of a space elevator. It expects to share<br />
the results of this competition and other insights at an<br />
international conference.<br />
REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UNVEILED<br />
Mitsubishi Estate Co. unveiled the outline of its urbanrenewal<br />
project in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district in June. The<br />
development will be located where a former golf driving<br />
range was. Among the new development plans for the<br />
3.7-hectare plot are a 20-story office building and a<br />
32-story luxury residential building. The company antici-<br />
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pates strong demand because of the location’s proximity<br />
to a subway station and the lack of large office buildings<br />
and condominiums in the area. The office building will<br />
occupy about 70% of the total area and is expected to be<br />
complete in April 2012.<br />
RECORD NUMBER OF HIGH RISES IN 2009<br />
According to Nikkei Inc., there was a record number of<br />
high rises built in Japan in 2009. Roughly 35,000 units in<br />
buildings with 20 or more stories were completed last<br />
year. However, construction is expected to slow down<br />
this year according to figures released by the Real Estate<br />
Economic <strong>Institute</strong> in April. The institute predicts an<br />
overall 17% drop across Japan, but greater Tokyo area<br />
construction is still expected to rise, despite the 9%<br />
decline it saw last year.<br />
Malaysia<br />
PRASARANA PLANS RAIL<br />
STATION IMPROVEMENTS<br />
Syarikat Prasarana Negara Bhd. (Prasarana) has announced<br />
plans to upgrade three light-rail-transit (LRT)<br />
stations, plus the construction of a six-level parking facility<br />
at the Gombak LRT station. The Masjid Jamek, Hang<br />
Tuah and Titiwangsa stations will receive accessibility<br />
improvements, including elevators, chairlifts, escalators<br />
and ramps. Three new elevators and a chairlift are planned<br />
for Titiwangsa. The work at Hang Tuah includes improving<br />
access between different areas of the LRT station, with<br />
the addition of elevators, chairlifts, escalators and other<br />
items to assist the disabled and others who are mobility<br />
challenged. The entire project is budgeted for MYR51 million<br />
(US$16.2 million). Construction began earlier this<br />
year and is expected to be completed next year.<br />
Saudi Arabia<br />
CLOCK TOWER RISES IN MECCA<br />
The centerpiece of the 1.5-million-square-meter Abraj<br />
al-Bait complex in Mecca is a tower with clock faces on<br />
four sides lit with two-million LED lights that can be seen<br />
up to 30 kilometers away. The clock tower, which is<br />
expected to reach a height of at least 590 meters and contain<br />
95 floors, is one of seven towers in the complex. The<br />
other six are expected to have between 42 and 48 floors.<br />
Facing Mecca’s Grand Mosque, the complex was planned<br />
to meet the kingdom’s desire to accommodate the 10<br />
million pilgrims expected to visit the city annually. The<br />
complex will include some 3,000 hotel rooms and residential<br />
units, as well as a five-story shopping mall and<br />
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However, the clock tower is designed to be the focal<br />
point of the project. Pilgrims and other visitors will be<br />
able to ride elevators to a balcony located just below the<br />
clock faces, from which they will be able to view the<br />
Grand Mosque and other sights of the city. The clock<br />
faces are each 46 meters in diameter, which is more than<br />
six times the diameter of Big Ben clock in London. They<br />
will be more than 400 meters above ground level. The<br />
clocks began operating in August at the start of Ramadan.<br />
A four-level astronomical observatory and Islamic museum<br />
will also be located in the clock tower.<br />
The seven-tower complex was designed by architect<br />
Dar Al-Handasah of Shair & Partners. The Saudi Binladen<br />
Group is developing the project. Construction began in<br />
2004 and is expected to be completed in 2011.<br />
SAUDI ARAMCO HOSTS SAFETY EVENT<br />
Saudi Aramco, a major oil company, will host a safety<br />
event on December 4-5 at its DOC Building in Al Khobari.<br />
The conference will examine the relationship the oil industry<br />
has with safety, policy and mechanisms it employs<br />
and what heavy lift manufacturers must do to meet their<br />
guidelines. The conference will also give attendees the<br />
opportunity to learn how Saudi Aramco operates. For<br />
more information, contact Pat Latchem at phone: (971)<br />
4-440-9148 or e-mail: pat@cpidubaicom, or visit website:<br />
www.cpilive.net/events/aramco.<br />
South Korea<br />
THYSSENKRUPP INSTALLS<br />
TWIN ELEVATORS IN HOSPITAL<br />
ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> announced in July that it will<br />
install two of its TWIN elevators (systems with two cabs<br />
running independently in the same shaft) and one conventional<br />
elevator at Ajou University Hospital in Suwon.<br />
The installation is a part of a modernization project. After<br />
the replacement of three traditional single elevators that<br />
have reached their capacity limits, five cabs will be available,<br />
allowing more passengers to be transported in the<br />
same amount of space. In addition, a destination-control<br />
system will shorten passenger wait times. Ajou University<br />
Hospital is one of the largest in the country. Each TWIN<br />
cab has its own counterweight and separate safety and<br />
drive equipment, but both cabs use the same guide rails<br />
and shaft doors.<br />
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KESI PLANS LIFT SAFETY EXPO<br />
Korea <strong>Elevator</strong> Safety <strong>Institute</strong> (KESI) has announced<br />
plans for Korea Lift Safety Expo 2010 as part of its observance<br />
of the 100th anniversary of the first lift installation<br />
in Korea. KESI took charge in celebrating the anniversary<br />
and boosting the lift industry in July when it launched the<br />
Lift 100th Anniversary Committee and started preparing<br />
memorial events involving the inspection agency, five<br />
companies, three industry organizations under the Korea<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Industry Coop and the Korea Lift College. The<br />
five companies involved are Hyundai <strong>Elevator</strong>, Otis,<br />
ThyssenKrupp, Mitsubishi Electric and Schindler.<br />
Under its president, Nam-Deuk Kim, KESI is hosting<br />
the expo on December 15-18 at Hall C with Coex in Seoul.<br />
The organizer expects more than 20,000 students and<br />
representatives from industry organizations, universities<br />
and lift companies to participate in the expo. A history<br />
center will display 100 years of Korean lift history and<br />
information on the lift industry to which people may<br />
not have easy access. The Safety Experience center is<br />
designed to acknowledge the safety issues and elevate<br />
the ability to deal with dangerous situations.<br />
The companies participating in the expo will each have<br />
a promotion booth to introduce new technologies, future<br />
vision and their businesses to expo attendees. Visitors<br />
can also experience technologies related to the lift industry<br />
such as closed-circuit television, security, light and fire<br />
extinguisher technologies.<br />
For more information, contact KESI at 352-5 Yang-jae<br />
2-dong, Seoul, Korea, 137-898; phone: (82) 2-3497-7443;<br />
fax: (82) 2-3497-7419; or website: www.kesi.or.kr.<br />
HYUNDAI ELEVATOR<br />
RECEIVES ENERGY CERTIFICATES<br />
Hyundai <strong>Elevator</strong> Co. Ltd. announced in August that it<br />
received the “A” class energy-efficiency certificate of VDI<br />
4707 certified by the German institute TÜV. The energyefficiency<br />
class was introduced by the Association of<br />
German Engineers (VDI) and is classified in seven grades,<br />
from A to G. Class A represents the least consumption of<br />
energy after evaluating service hours, energy consumption<br />
during operation and average travel distance.<br />
Hyundai explained that the acquisition of the certificate is<br />
derived from its regenerative inverter LOWATT, which<br />
can increase efficiency up to 77.5% by returning its regenerated<br />
energy during elevator operation to a building’s<br />
lighting and climate-control system. Hyundai’s LOWATT<br />
was also awarded the New Excellent Technology certificate<br />
from the Ministry of Science & Technology by removing its<br />
electrolytic condenser, thus reducing its size and extending<br />
its lifespan.
Turkey<br />
ASANSÖR ISTANBUL ADDS HALL<br />
AND CHANGES DATES<br />
To acquire the use of a fifth hall, the organizers of<br />
Asansör Istanbul 2011 have changed the dates of the 12th<br />
international lift fair to April 14-17, 2011. The addition<br />
of Hall 6 to its traditional group of Halls 7, 8, 9 and 10 is<br />
expected to bring the net exhibition space to 11,000<br />
square meters. Hall 6 was not available for the previously<br />
announced dates. The changes are designed to accommodate<br />
an expected increase in national and international<br />
participation. Thousands of international fair visitors from<br />
New Zealand to the U.S. are anticipated, with as many as<br />
64 countries represented.<br />
For further information about Asansör Istanbul 2011,<br />
contact Istanbul Fair Organizers at website: www.asansor<br />
istanbul.com.<br />
United Arab Emirates<br />
TL JONES SUPPLIES TELEPHONE<br />
SYSTEMS TO FERRARI WORLD<br />
In August, TL Jones announced it had supplied emergency<br />
elevator telephone systems to the Ferrari <strong>World</strong><br />
theme park on Yas island in Abu Dhabi. The Memcom<br />
telephone systems were installed on Otis elevators<br />
throughout the complex. The project was managed by<br />
Laith Hasen, general manager of TL Jones U.A.E. He leads<br />
the TL Jones Middle East operation from Dubai. The<br />
Memcom emergency telephone system allows connection<br />
with up to four pre-programmed telephone numbers<br />
in the event of an elevator-trapping emergency and is<br />
EN81 compliant.<br />
Ferrari <strong>World</strong><br />
Ferrari <strong>World</strong> was developed by Aldar Properties. The<br />
Ferrari-themed amusement park is located adjacent to the<br />
Yas Marina Circuit, home of the Formula 1 Etihad Airways<br />
Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Ferrari <strong>World</strong> is sited under a red<br />
roof that spans 200,000 square meters and carries a<br />
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large Ferrari logo. Its attractions and experiences include<br />
Formula Rossa, a 240-kph roller coaster that completes<br />
its circuit in less than five seconds. In addition to amusement<br />
rides, the park is home to numerous interactive,<br />
shopping and dining experiences.<br />
NAIF SOUQ OPENS IN DUBAI<br />
The newly reconstructed Naif Souq in Dubai held its<br />
official opening on October 20. The shopping area is<br />
larger than its predecessor and includes two elevators<br />
and two escalators. There are 218 shops in the complex,<br />
which is located near the ancient Naif Fort. The 60,000square-foot-market<br />
is one of the oldest in Dubai and had<br />
to be rebuilt after an April 2008 fire.<br />
Vietnam<br />
HCM CITY REGULATES BUILDING HEIGHT<br />
Vietnam News reported in July that Ho Chi Minh (HCM)<br />
City plans to crack down on construction companies that<br />
violate the city’s height regulations on buildings in District<br />
1. The criteria for the height of buildings vary according<br />
to location, street, population and distance to historic<br />
structures, among other factors. In order to protect the<br />
landscape and ease traffic congestions, HCM City’s People<br />
Council recently passed a regulation that requires city<br />
agencies to regulate the number of high-rise construction<br />
projects in inner-city District 1.<br />
BAN ON HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS<br />
AFFECTING MARKET<br />
Vietnam News recently reported on the government’s<br />
ban on high-rise buildings in sections of Hanoi and how<br />
it is affecting the apartment market. According to the<br />
report, 223 high-rise projects in Hoan Kiem, Hai Ba<br />
Trung, Ba Dinh and Dong Da have been delayed since the<br />
ban went into effect in December 2009. Coupled with the<br />
government’s decision in 2007 to require older apartment<br />
buildings in the city to be rebuilt, the construction ban<br />
has caused an increase in the price for apartments.<br />
Although the high-rise construction ban was lifted in July<br />
for most of Hanoi, it is still in effect for the Ba Dinh political<br />
center, Old Quarter, and the Ho Guom Lake, Old<br />
Citadel and Army areas. Some in the real-estate sector<br />
have expressed doubts for a revival in the apartment<br />
market due to the possibility of the high-rise construction<br />
ban being implemented again in the future.<br />
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<strong>World</strong>wide<br />
HITACHI INTEGRATES REGIONAL<br />
ELEVATOR OPERATIONS<br />
Hitachi, Ltd. announced in September that Hitachi<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Engineering (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. has been<br />
renamed Hitachi <strong>Elevator</strong> Asia Pte. Ltd. (HEA) and began<br />
operations as a regional headquarters for the Hitachi<br />
Group’s elevator and escalator business in Southeast<br />
Asia, <strong>India</strong> and the Middle East on October 1. HEA will<br />
oversee all regional operations and endeavor to raise<br />
business efficiency through locally led operations, as well<br />
as strengthen the system for quickly responding to market<br />
trends and customer needs in each country and region.<br />
Hitachi will also develop global strategic elevators that<br />
will standardize control systems that have differed by<br />
countries and regions, and promote a shared information/<br />
technology (IT) platform for supporting decisions regarding<br />
sales and specification determination, design, manufacturing<br />
and procurement. The company intends for the<br />
headquarters to form a highly efficient global development<br />
and manufacturing framework based on cooperation<br />
among bases in Japan, China and Singapore. As a result,<br />
Hitachi aims to expand its global share of new orders for<br />
elevators and escalators in terms of units from the 8% of<br />
fiscal year 2009 to 10% in fiscal year 2012.<br />
Based on reports that the demand for new elevators<br />
and escalators in Southeast Asia, <strong>India</strong> and the Middle<br />
East (dubbed the “Asian Belt Zone”) is expected to rise by<br />
20% (from 54,000 units in fiscal year 2009 to 65,000 units<br />
in fiscal year 2012), HEA will formulate a business strategy<br />
for the new region as a whole. It will also attempt to<br />
optimally allocate business resources and coordinate the<br />
activities of the Hitachi Group and its agents in developing<br />
the business. In addition, HEA intends to actively<br />
promote alliances and nurture global human resources in<br />
each region.<br />
Hitachi has developed a new control system that uses<br />
a standard basic design based on inverter technologies<br />
from Japan through cooperation among development<br />
divisions in Japan, China and Singapore. Furthermore,<br />
Hitachi developed an elevator with a small machine room<br />
(with a rated speed of 60–105 mpm and load capacity of<br />
450–1050 kg) for markets in China, Southeast Asia, <strong>India</strong><br />
and the Middle East. The company has been selling this<br />
elevator in China, Southeast Asia, <strong>India</strong> and the Middle<br />
East since April 2010.<br />
The company is bolstering its global development of<br />
“Social Innovation Business,” which has technological<br />
capabilities in advanced social infrastructure supported<br />
by information and communication technologies. In the<br />
“Asian Belt Zone,” the company will promote development<br />
of advanced technologies and solutions businesses<br />
related to elevators and escalators. �
Public Safety<br />
Otis <strong>India</strong> Takes Safe-T Rider © Program<br />
to School Children<br />
At Otis <strong>India</strong>, safety initiatives have always been taken<br />
to ensure safety of not only employees but product users<br />
as well. Apart from implementing site safety requirements<br />
steps have been taken from time to time, to educate<br />
product users on dos and don’ts of safety precautions<br />
during the use of elevators and escalators. Training is<br />
also being imparted to members of housing societies and<br />
fire-brigade personnel.<br />
In July, Otis <strong>India</strong> launched a new way to disseminate<br />
safety messages to school children. Initiated by Stephen<br />
D’Souza who firmly believed in educating children while<br />
they were very young. Children tend to learn quickly and<br />
practice what is taught to them. With the increase in<br />
high-rise structures, multiplexes and malls, it becomes<br />
even more important for children to know elevator and<br />
escalator safety. The program is developed by the <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Escalator Safety Foundation (EESF) and made available in<br />
<strong>India</strong> through the nonprofit <strong>Elevator</strong> Escalator Safety<br />
Trust (EEST) in <strong>India</strong>, an independent trust along the<br />
same lines as the EESF in the U.S.<br />
In July, the first program was held at a popular school<br />
in the suburbs of Mumbai, which has a high density of<br />
high-rise buildings with a large number of elevators.<br />
Training was imparted to more than 480 children of the<br />
Hiranandani Foundation School in July. This interactive<br />
session was facilitated by faculty from Otis <strong>India</strong>, comprising<br />
of W.S. D’Souza, V.K. Chitale, P.J. Wandre, Anuradha<br />
Children being educated on the safety program<br />
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Sawant and Anjali Bijpuria, and was well supported by R.<br />
Vishwanathan. Subsequently, the program was also conducted<br />
for 1,400 students of the Gundecha Education<br />
Academy.<br />
As part of the training program, there were lively discussions<br />
with students regarding their awareness about<br />
elevator and escalators, and specially developed videos<br />
were shown. This was followed by a question-and-answer<br />
session, which witnessed a tremendous response<br />
from the children. The teachers also attended the program.<br />
The children were awarded certificates of participation<br />
that featured some safety slogans for them to<br />
remember.<br />
The school management was impressed with this initiative<br />
by Otis <strong>India</strong> and requested to hold a similar program<br />
for the primary school children. The second program<br />
was held with in a month of the first and delivered<br />
the program to more than 720 children.<br />
Incidentally, TAK Mathews of EEST was approached at<br />
a local mall by a student from the Hiranandani Foundation<br />
School. They talked about the training she received at her<br />
school, and the child’s mother was appreciative. Overwhelmed<br />
with this response, our faculty is looking forward<br />
to conducting more such programs in the interest of<br />
overall public safety. Otis <strong>India</strong> even has plans to clone<br />
the program in other cities to ensure wider impact and<br />
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The <strong>Serum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> of <strong>India</strong> was founded in 1966 with<br />
the aim to manufacture life-saving immunobiologicals,<br />
which were a shortage in <strong>India</strong> and being imported at<br />
high prices. The institute has since established itself as<br />
one of the world’s largest producers and reliable sources<br />
of high-quality vaccines and biologicals. The products have<br />
been supplied to international health agencies like the <strong>World</strong><br />
Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund and<br />
Pan American Health Organization, in addition to more<br />
than 140 countries. The institute recently set up <strong>Serum</strong><br />
Bio Pharma Park in Pune. The park is adjoined to the<br />
<strong>Serum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong>’s existing manufacturing unit and is<br />
meant for biotechnology and pharmaceutical products.<br />
This has encouraged many foreign companies to partner<br />
with the institute.<br />
One of the more recent partnerships is with Concord<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Pvt. Ltd., which supplied custom designed passenger<br />
and freight elevators for the buildings at <strong>India</strong>’s<br />
Biotech Special Economic Zone (SEZ), <strong>Serum</strong> Bio Pharma<br />
Park. D.J. Pajnigar, senior director of <strong>Serum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> of<br />
<strong>India</strong>, specified that all elevators in Bio Pharma Park<br />
buildings be equipped with the latest technology and<br />
safety features; in addition to high-end features to enhance<br />
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the aesthetic appearance of the buildings. Concord <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
worked closely with <strong>Serum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> Consulting Architect<br />
Professor Percy Pithawala to conceptualize and design<br />
the elevator interiors.<br />
The cabins of the passenger elevators are large with<br />
internal dimensions of 1.8 m wide, 1.5 m deep and 2.8 m<br />
high. They have been enhanced with custom etched titanium,<br />
gold-plated, stainless-steel panels and a titanium,<br />
gold-plated, mirror-finished, stainless-steel false ceiling.<br />
The flooring is a seamless two-tone marble achieved by<br />
using water-jet cutting technology. The operating fixtures<br />
include the car operating panel and the hall operating<br />
panel, comprised of titanium, gold-plated, stainless-steel,<br />
self-illuminating LED micro push buttons custom marked<br />
to the required floor designation with Braille and dotmatrix<br />
direction and floor- indication displays.<br />
The same trend of space, texture and design is continued<br />
with the large door openings, which measure 1.2 m wide<br />
and 2.4 m high, including the custom etched-titanium,<br />
gold-plated stainless steel on the cabin door panels and<br />
all seven landing-door panels of the elevator. All door<br />
panels have been provided with vision panels of “toughened<br />
safety glass” to avoid breakage and conform to<br />
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<strong>Serum</strong><br />
<strong>Institute</strong> of <strong>India</strong> Continued<br />
Gearless machine unit (1156 Kg - 1.5 mps) with<br />
nylo-cast deflector<br />
Machine room equipment of 3000 Kg. 1.0 mps<br />
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EN 81 specifications for glass doors. The automatic door<br />
system for the elevators is powered by an energy-efficient<br />
AC; variable-voltage, variable-frequency (VVVF); closed-loop<br />
drive system. A 154 criss-cross beam infrared light-curtain<br />
door safety has been integrated at all landings to protect passengers<br />
while entering and exiting the elevator.<br />
The passenger elevators can reach speeds up to 1.5 mps<br />
through the 24-meter travel height of the office/factory building.<br />
This is achieved by deploying the following energysaving<br />
technology: AC permanent-magnet gearless machines<br />
Machine room equipment of 3000 Kg. 1.0 mps
driven by a closed-loop digital- feedback VVVF drive,<br />
controlled with a 32-bit microprocessor that communicates<br />
with all the elevator equipment using CANbus serial<br />
communications. These implementations save about 50%<br />
of the energy conventional systems use. The passenger<br />
elevators have also been equipped with an automatic<br />
emergency-rescue device in the case of power failure.<br />
In addition to all safeties being provided as per EN 81<br />
standards, an enhanced safety feature in the form of a<br />
rope brake was installed in the passenger elevators. This<br />
rope brake will operate by clamping the ropes in the<br />
event of loss of traction between the main drive sheave<br />
and the main hoist ropes of the elevator.<br />
The 3000-kg, 1-mps, geared passenger and freight elevators<br />
follow similar features as those of the passenger<br />
elevators, with the exception of the larger cabin size of<br />
2.3 m wide, 2.6 m deep and 2.5 m high. The door opening<br />
measures 2 m wide and 2.4 m high and has standard<br />
stainless-steel hairline finish cabin and door panels.<br />
In an endeavor to enhance the elevator performance,<br />
Concord <strong>Elevator</strong> provided high-intensity, cast-nylon<br />
deflector sheaves, car looping sheaves and counterweight<br />
CANbus serial communicating control<br />
Continued<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> at the <strong>Serum</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> of <strong>India</strong><br />
Rope brake<br />
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<strong>Serum</strong><br />
<strong>Institute</strong> of <strong>India</strong> Continued<br />
looping sheaves, which are further isolated from the car<br />
frames by spring isolation and rubber pad isolation for<br />
both the 1156-kg passenger elevators and 3000-kg freight<br />
elevators. These sheaves have inherent flexibility, nonpolarity<br />
and fast-working stress-release ability. The<br />
sheaves are designed to not have permanent deformation.<br />
The cast nylon sheaves also enhance the life of<br />
the main ropes due to their high resistance to wear and<br />
corrosion and can decrease mechanical injury caused<br />
by surface friction of associated metal due to their selflubricating<br />
property.<br />
Concord <strong>Elevator</strong> was established in 1980 by Founder<br />
Chairman and Managing Director D.F. Palkhivala, who<br />
has more than 50 years of experience in the elevator<br />
industry. Concord <strong>Elevator</strong> initially started with the maintenance<br />
and repairs of elevators, then evolved to a fully<br />
integrated elevator company. The company’s elevators<br />
have a rated load capability ranging from 204 kg to<br />
12,000 kg and can travel at speeds of .3-7 mps.<br />
Concord <strong>Elevator</strong> provides elevator, escalator and car<br />
parking solutions, including:<br />
◆ Machine-room-less (MRL) home lifts<br />
◆ Residential and commercial passenger elevators – MRL<br />
or with machine room<br />
Hoistway Isolated suspension<br />
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◆ Panoramic elevators of various shapes and finishes<br />
◆ Fully round glass elevators with glass round/circular<br />
automatic doors<br />
◆ Automobile elevators<br />
◆ Freight elevators<br />
◆ Custom elevators, including inclined elevators<br />
◆ Escalators<br />
◆ Inclined walkways<br />
◆ Horizontal walkways<br />
◆ Dependent car-parking systems<br />
◆ Independent car-parking systems<br />
Fali D. Palkhivala is the director<br />
of Concord <strong>Elevator</strong> and has 20<br />
years of experience in the elevator<br />
industry. He has experience in<br />
the development of new products<br />
in terms of design, space saving<br />
and energy efficiency.
Market Trends<br />
Building Tall<br />
A Look at the Past, Present and Future of Skyscrapers<br />
Big buildings have been used to show off power and<br />
wealth; to honor leaders or religious beliefs; to stretch the<br />
limits of what’s possible; and even as simple competition<br />
among owners, families, architects and builders. Some of<br />
the most dramatic buildings of the past include the pyramids<br />
in Egypt, the skinny towers stretching toward the<br />
sky in Italian hill towns and the gothic cathedrals of<br />
France. While these types of buildings may look very<br />
different from each other, they all have one thing in<br />
common. They were built with masonry or stone walls<br />
supporting most of the weight, including that of the<br />
floors, the people and everything the rooms contained.<br />
Because of this, the height of these buildings was limited<br />
by how massive and heavy they had to be at the base.<br />
Removing the Obstacles<br />
Two developments in the 19th century paved the way<br />
for a whole new type of building: the skyscraper. The first<br />
was the development of a safe elevator. Primitive elevators<br />
of various designs had been used for centuries, and<br />
starting in the mid-19th century, steam-operated elevators<br />
were used to move materials in factories, mines and warehouses.<br />
However, these elevators were not considered<br />
safe for people; if the cable broke, they would plummet to<br />
the bottom of the elevator shaft. In 1853, an American<br />
inventor named Elisha Graves Otis developed a safety<br />
device that kept elevators from falling if a cable should<br />
break. This new development had an enormous impact<br />
on public confidence. Later in the century, the switch to<br />
an electric motor made the elevator a practical solution<br />
to the problem of getting up and down tall buildings.<br />
The second development took place in Chicago. In<br />
1871, Chicago suffered a devastating fire. In the years<br />
that followed, however, instead of recovering slowly, the<br />
city experienced explosive growth, and it quickly began<br />
to strain against its natural boundaries. By the 1880s, the<br />
available land for new buildings in this area could not<br />
keep up with demand, the only alternative was to build<br />
up. In order to achieve the desired height, construction<br />
techniques had to change. A new method of building was<br />
developed that used a grid of steel beams and columns<br />
strong enough to support any stresses or forces a building<br />
might experience, including both the weight of the<br />
floor and the building contents, as well as the force of<br />
wind or even, in some areas, earthquakes. And with this<br />
new building method, the skyscraper was born, and the<br />
race for the tallest building began.<br />
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Modern Materials<br />
Since the birth of the skyscraper, builders and engineers<br />
have continuously looked for ways to improve building<br />
methods and materials in order to make structures stronger,<br />
taller and lighter. Skyscrapers are built to last, so they must<br />
be made of materials that are strong; durable; resistant to<br />
the sun, wind, rain, frost, and snow; and affordable. Concrete<br />
is one of the most common materials (beyond the<br />
steel supports) because it is enormously versatile. Its<br />
composition can be changed depending on the needs of<br />
the building. It can be reinforced to make it stiffer and<br />
stronger by setting steel mesh or bars into the concrete.<br />
Additives can also make it set or harden faster or slower,<br />
depending on the needs of the design.<br />
Another very important material is glass. Because the<br />
steel skeleton now supports the main loads of the building,<br />
the outer skin only serves to keep the weather out<br />
and let light in; the more light the better. So glass walls<br />
became very popular beginning after <strong>World</strong> War II because<br />
they are weatherproof while providing ample natural light,<br />
and also because they are so much lighter and cheaper<br />
than masonry or concrete.<br />
The Forces of Nature<br />
As buildings became taller and lighter, particularly the<br />
popular modern glass boxes, skyscrapers began having<br />
trouble with the wind, and they began to sway, some more<br />
than two feet in any direction! Engineers came up with<br />
new solutions for this problem, first installing diagonally<br />
braced steel trusses between central elevator shafts to<br />
create a stronger core, and then moving most of the beams<br />
and columns to the outside edge of the walls in order to<br />
make a stiff tube. A more unusual solution was devised<br />
to control sway in the 1970s called a tuned mass damper.<br />
This is a giant concrete block or weight, mounted with<br />
springs and shock absorbers on a lubricated plate, designed<br />
like a pendulum to move in one direction when a computer<br />
senses the structure has begun to move in the other, in<br />
order to counterbalance the motion.<br />
Building Badly<br />
Of course, with new technological developments, problems<br />
can occur. One dramatic and very visible example<br />
was the John Hancock Tower in Boston, now considered<br />
the city’s most spectacular building. The structure is a<br />
tower of mirrored glass. But almost from the beginning,<br />
the glass panes failed. The problem started during a<br />
winter gale in January 1973 while the tower was still under
construction. When huge panels of glass, each weighing<br />
500 pounds, shattered and fell to the street below.<br />
The streets and sidewalks were roped off as engineers<br />
tried to figure out what was going wrong. By April, at<br />
least 65 panels had fallen and were replaced by plywood.<br />
Theories and rumors persisted, including that the tower<br />
was swaying too much, causing the windows to pop out,<br />
or that the tower’s foundation was settling so significantly<br />
that it broke the windows. The truth was that the<br />
material itself failed. The window units had been manufactured<br />
using a fairly new process and the design was<br />
fatally flawed. Ultimately, all 10,344 windows had to be<br />
replaced, and the building has been safe ever since.<br />
The Race for the Sky<br />
In the early 20th century, corporations built skyscrapers<br />
for the promotional value to increase name recognition.<br />
Among the early skyscrapers in Manhattan were the<br />
Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower (700 feet, 50 stories),<br />
the Woolworth Building (the world’s tallest from 1913-<br />
1930 at 792 feet, 60 stories), the Bank of Manhattan (927<br />
feet, 71 stories) and the heavily decorated Chrysler Building<br />
(briefly the world’s tallest in 1930 at 1,046 feet, 77 stories).<br />
The Chrysler Building soon lost its crown to the Empire<br />
State Building, built during the Great Depression by a real<br />
estate developer, which reached a stunning 1,250 feet<br />
and 102 stories. The Empire State Building would reign<br />
supreme among skyscrapers for 41 years until 1972,<br />
when it was surpassed by the <strong>World</strong> Trade Center (1,368<br />
feet, 110 stories). Two years later, New York City lost<br />
the distinction of housing the tallest building when the<br />
Sears Tower was constructed in Chicago (1,450 feet, 110<br />
stories). And 24 years after that, for the first time, the<br />
tallest skyscraper was no longer in the United States at<br />
all, but in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where the Petronas<br />
Towers were built in 1998 (1,483 feet, 88 stories). Taipei<br />
101, completed in Taiwan in 2004 (1,670 feet and 101<br />
stories), held the title as the tallest building in the world<br />
until January 2010, when the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> (formerly called<br />
the <strong>Burj</strong> Dubai), in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, became<br />
the world’s tallest building at 2,716 feet and 160 stories.<br />
The <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> contains the world’s fastest elevators,<br />
20.7 acres of glass, and uses an estimated 250,000 gallons<br />
of water per day.<br />
Today, skyscrapers are an increasingly common sight<br />
where land is expensive, as in the centers of big cities,<br />
because they provide such a high ratio of rentable floor<br />
space per unit area of land. However, they are not built<br />
just for economy of space. Like temples and palaces of<br />
the past, skyscrapers are considered symbols of a city’s<br />
economic power. Not only do they define the skyline, they<br />
help to define the city’s identity.<br />
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Readers’ Platform<br />
Help Us Help<br />
by K. Subramanian<br />
K. Subramaniam has been executive director –<br />
Technical for Johnson Lifts since 1988. He has 43<br />
years of lift-industry experience.<br />
Subramaniam began in<br />
the Design & Development<br />
Department of Best<br />
& Crompton Engineering<br />
in 1964 then worked with<br />
ECE Industries as regional<br />
manager – South from 1980<br />
until 1988. He received his<br />
BS in Electrical Engineering<br />
from Kerala University in 1964.<br />
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With the economic growth in realestate<br />
and building businesses in<br />
<strong>India</strong>, barring the recent economic<br />
situation, the elevator market has<br />
synergistically seen much growth.<br />
Many companies, both local and foreign,<br />
have strengthened/established<br />
their operations in <strong>India</strong>. One can see<br />
the impact by way of technological<br />
and cosmetic changes in presentday<br />
elevators, which include microprocessor<br />
and serial communication<br />
electronic controls, fancy shapes in<br />
the lift cabin with comparatively<br />
expensive panels with stainless steel<br />
and glass, lobby doors with various<br />
designs in stainless steel, fancy and<br />
colorful call-button fixtures and indicators<br />
in the lobby.<br />
The elevator is one of the most<br />
essential and critical utilities of the<br />
building. It is needless to emphasize<br />
that elevator installation must be<br />
done with all due care to ensure that,<br />
as an important asset of the building,<br />
it has a minimum life of at least 20<br />
years before one could think of renovation.<br />
Similar to bricks, cement,<br />
steel rods, etc. that go into the main<br />
structure of the building, elevators<br />
also have many parts and accessories<br />
that are assembled and embedded at<br />
the site to give the systems their final<br />
shapes.<br />
For a good installation at site, there<br />
are some prerequisite work sequences<br />
and required times. In elevator contracts,<br />
it is a work order for supply and<br />
installation of the lifts. There is no<br />
avenue to use to buy the materials<br />
from one agency and get them installed<br />
by another. Though with great<br />
efforts this is technically possible, as<br />
an industry practice, it is not done.<br />
Storage of materials is one of the<br />
problems that can provide lots of<br />
woes. This is a predicament faced by<br />
the customer, as well the elevator<br />
company.<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> materials are not to be<br />
equated to tiles, cement or bricks.<br />
So-called elevator materials can be<br />
ordinary steel structures, certain<br />
machined and finished steel com -<br />
ponents like rails, electromechanical<br />
assemblies like the main machine,<br />
door operators, limit switches,<br />
wheels, controllers, indicators and<br />
call-button assemblies that are as<br />
sensitive as TVs and computers.<br />
Apart from this, there are items like<br />
car body panels, door panels made<br />
out of stainless steel and glass with<br />
specific, expensive and exotic finishes<br />
and tints.<br />
Handling and storage of lift materials<br />
needs more understanding of the<br />
complex nature of the accessories<br />
and assemblies. The same care with<br />
which the specification was discussed<br />
and finalized for the car body<br />
and doors is required to preserve the<br />
finishes by having good storage<br />
provisions at a site. This aspect is not<br />
given its due priority and importance.<br />
Spending some time in finding a<br />
mutually agreed solution will go a long<br />
way in providing a good installation.<br />
It goes without saying that that<br />
depends on how the materials are<br />
safeguarded against damages at site.<br />
Building construction methods<br />
and systems have also changed due<br />
to technological innovations and<br />
improvements. A lot of focus is given<br />
toward speeding up the work and<br />
completing the project quicker. Installation<br />
of the lifts is a mini project<br />
within the main project. It is an<br />
activity pervading in all floors right<br />
from the bottom to the top level, and<br />
even beyond where the machine<br />
room is normally located.<br />
The guide rails, machine and other<br />
accessories at the machine room,<br />
landing-door assemblies at all floor<br />
levels, call buttons, indicators, etc.<br />
are all fixed/embedded at the site.
Alignment of the various accessories,<br />
installing the ropes, wiring the call<br />
buttons, indicators, etc. are done at<br />
the next stage. These activities involve<br />
interacting with others working in<br />
the building. Normal hurdles include:<br />
◆ Plumb of the duct allotted for the<br />
lift (lift shaft)<br />
◆ Preventing the pit becoming a<br />
debris receptacle<br />
◆ Final decisions on floor levels<br />
◆ Details on the decorative fascia<br />
surrounding the lift entrances at<br />
all floors<br />
Avoiding major errors in the dimensional<br />
plumb of the lift shaft will<br />
go a long way in installation, saving<br />
time and money spent on reworking<br />
and alterations. The same holds for<br />
the positioning of the openings in all<br />
the floors without offset. “Out of<br />
plumb” and “offset” are two terms<br />
used or encountered only by elevator<br />
engineers and technicians. Sometimes<br />
it is taken for granted that<br />
nothing could go wrong in the construction<br />
of the lift shaft right from<br />
the pit to the machine room. The<br />
plumbness of walls from floor to floor<br />
may not have an impact for other<br />
activities in the building, but plumbness<br />
within allowable limits is a must<br />
for the lift shaft. Small errors from<br />
floor to floor accumulate. Organizing<br />
a checklist and periodical verifi -<br />
cation will help avoid the waste of<br />
time and money. There have been<br />
instances where the lift shaft was<br />
severely out of plumb – to the extent<br />
of installing a lift cabin with a lesser<br />
capacity, discarding the original<br />
cabin and its accessories.<br />
Commencement and completion<br />
of the lift installation is another<br />
issue. The commencement of the<br />
installation requires some prerequisites.<br />
The construction of the shaft,<br />
machine room and pit as per the<br />
general arrangement drawing (GAD)<br />
(mutually agreed and approved) is a<br />
major perquisite. Only in a completed<br />
shaft and machine room will<br />
the installers be able to decide on the<br />
various location centers for guide<br />
rails, machine position and rope<br />
holes, entrance frame and its sills,<br />
etc. Lift installation cannot be done<br />
on a floor-to-floor basis as a parallel<br />
activity along with the progress of<br />
construction of the building. Again,<br />
the logic of involving more people to<br />
speed up the work does not yield the<br />
desired result; on the other hand, it<br />
may lead to quality and safety issues.<br />
As an industry practice, the details<br />
of the work connected with the lift<br />
shaft, pit and machine room are<br />
listed in the GAD. Often, the building<br />
site engineers/supervisors are unaware<br />
of the details leading to unwanted<br />
disputes and delays. An initial coordination<br />
meeting will help understand<br />
the various scopes of work<br />
and enable the elevator installation<br />
team to get the necessary support to<br />
execute the work.<br />
Many small items may be left out,<br />
like finishing the entrance opening<br />
in the floor levels, making the pit<br />
good, windows and ventilators in the<br />
machine room, the door and steps<br />
for the machine room, machineroom<br />
flooring, etc. Though these are<br />
very minor jobs, they are nevertheless<br />
a big handicap for the lift installation<br />
team in continuously progressing<br />
with the work.<br />
Another important issue is the<br />
time taken to decide on the final finished<br />
floor levels and details of decorative<br />
fascia work. As an industry<br />
practice, the installation of the lobby<br />
door frames, sills, and call-button<br />
and indicator boxes are located and<br />
installed in the initial stage of the<br />
installation work. This is mainly to<br />
facilitate the completion of the fascia<br />
work (including the wiring) to be com -<br />
pleted by the time the lift installation<br />
is finished. In most cases, fascia<br />
work and floor levels put the brakes<br />
on the progress of the lift installation<br />
work. Any lapse or misfire spoils the<br />
aesthetics of the lift entrance. Installation<br />
completion commitments depend<br />
largely on the decisions on<br />
floor levels and the fascia.<br />
For the elevator industry to be<br />
customer friendly, allow us to enjoy<br />
contractor-friendly ambience. �<br />
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Technology<br />
Energy-Efficient Hydraulic Lifts<br />
The application of an inverter is not new in the elevator<br />
field. This device has been applied both on traditional<br />
gears as well as on gearless-drive solutions to optimize<br />
performance and power consumption. Designed, manufactured<br />
and guaranteed by Wittur Hydraulic Drives<br />
S.R.L., the new inverter-driven hydraulic-pump unit Wittur<br />
HI combines the performance of inverter technology with<br />
more than 50 years of experience in the field of hydraulic<br />
lift solutions.<br />
The Wittur HI pump unit completes<br />
the range of Wittur Hydraulic Drives’<br />
pump units, including the mechanical<br />
pump unit Wittur HM and the recently<br />
introduced electronic pump unit Wittur<br />
HE. Thanks to its specific configuration,<br />
the Wittur HI pump unit is compliant<br />
with the new EN 81-2 pr.A3<br />
Standards, which will come into force<br />
in 2010.<br />
No additional device or sensor has<br />
to be mounted in the shaft. Everything<br />
is controlled through software that<br />
has been specifically designed for hydraulic<br />
systems. The user interface is<br />
simple, and all adjustments can be<br />
modified using an ergonomic keyboard.<br />
The installer can fine-tune each system<br />
to meet clients’ requirements.<br />
The Wittur HI pump unit integrates<br />
innovative functionalities such as:<br />
◆ Microprocessor adjustment of the<br />
installed power, which can be reduced<br />
to a minimum<br />
◆ Control of all upward and downward car movements<br />
through microprocessor<br />
◆ Minimum oil heating (less than 50% compared to conventional<br />
pump units); in most applications, the cooling<br />
system is no longer necessary.<br />
At the same time, it allows:<br />
◆ Permanent adjustment of the car speed up to 1 mps<br />
◆ Floor leveling accuracy and integrated micro leveling<br />
function.<br />
◆ Operations that are fully independent from cabin load<br />
and oil temperature variation.<br />
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Energy Consumption Reduction<br />
European nations, more and more sensitive towards<br />
environmental issues, are distributing ever greater government<br />
and community contributions to promote environmental<br />
sustainability, while citizens take benefit from<br />
an easier investment amortization. The Wittur HI pump<br />
unit controls the car movement through an inverter only,<br />
thereby optimizing the motor efficiency at any given moment<br />
of the lift operation. The value measured in a traditional<br />
pump unit typically varies<br />
between 0.69 and 0.78 (full load)<br />
during motor operation, having a<br />
0.85 data plate. The Wittur HI<br />
pump unit has a constant power<br />
factor of 0.99.<br />
Apart from possible power loss<br />
due to the Joule effect, the power<br />
factor represents the ratio between<br />
the power actually converted<br />
into mechanical functioning<br />
by an electric motor and the<br />
power available from the network.<br />
The so-called reactive power<br />
is instead required to power the<br />
magnetic field of the electric<br />
motor in the hydraulic pump unit.<br />
While minimizing the reactive<br />
power, the use of an inverter increases<br />
the overall system efficiency.<br />
The Wittur HI pump unit offers<br />
electricity savings:<br />
◆ 28% of power utilization<br />
◆ 31% of energy demand from the network<br />
◆ 16% of active energy used for car movement<br />
It is possible to determine the maximum power that<br />
the lift should not exceed by setting the car movement<br />
speed according to the lift system load capacity.<br />
Oil Heating Reduction<br />
The Wittur HI pump unit uses a microprocessor-controlled<br />
motor that reduces oil heating in the tank to a<br />
minimum. The new valve has been designed to allow an<br />
optimum oil flow through the pipes to minimize pressure<br />
drops and to avoid the need for additional cooling sys-
Pump Motor Rise Single day Single day<br />
Unit (kW) Speed Standby Travel Total Total Energy<br />
Energy (Wh) Energy (Wh) Energy (Wh) Energy (Wh) (Wh/Cosϕ**)<br />
Electric 3.0 1.00 (14*) 2832 726 3558 2593 (- 4%)<br />
Gearless<br />
HI 6.0 0.50 (24*) 2040 1663 3703 3740 reference<br />
HE* 7.7 0.50 1680 2721 4401 5382 (+31%)<br />
HM 7.7 0.50 (27*) 1680 2926 4606 5660 (+34%)<br />
(*) Experiment made on: HM, prototype of HI, Gearless. An energy savings of 7% can be applied for HE vs. HM travel energy.<br />
(**) It was not possible to meter Cos ϕ of HM along the experiment Cos ϕ= 0.735 is considered for HM and HE.<br />
40 rise travels:<br />
◆ 20 empty<br />
◆ 19 with two people<br />
◆ One at full weight<br />
Table 1: Experiment: 450-kg lifts, 80 travels/day X 13 meters<br />
40 down travels:<br />
◆ 20 empty<br />
◆ 15 with one person<br />
◆ Five with two people<br />
tems. The following example shows that a significant<br />
amount of heat is transmitted to the oil during the downwards<br />
movement of the cabin.<br />
A cabin with its pulley and a load capacity of six persons<br />
(450 kilograms) has the same weight as its maximum<br />
rated load. The energy of the mechanical valve converted<br />
to oil heat during five stops (13 meters) is equal to<br />
the variation of the potential energy during downwards<br />
movement:<br />
450 X 2 X 9.81 X 13 = 114,777 Joules = 115 kiloJoules<br />
According to Galileo’s formula, the mechanical work<br />
done by an asynchronous motor moving for 27 seconds<br />
to hoist the cabin with a maximum load capacity at a<br />
speed of 0.5 mps is:<br />
27 X (450 X 2 X 0.5 X 9.81) = 119,191 Joules = 119 kilo-<br />
Joules<br />
The HI pump unit keeps oil from transmitting 115 kilo-<br />
Joules of heat during downwards movement of the cabin.<br />
At the same time (if we take a mechanical pump unit with<br />
a traditional asynchronous motor into account), it prevents<br />
oil warming during the upwards movement of the<br />
cabin caused by the motor that is at least: 30% X 119 kilo-<br />
Joules = 36 kiloJoules<br />
Unlike a hydraulic pump unit without inverter, in the<br />
case of continuous operation, the heat that would not be<br />
transmitted from the oil in the Wittur HI pump unit would<br />
be equal to:<br />
60 X (115 + 36)/4.18 = 2,167 kCal per hour<br />
Assuming:<br />
◆ 80 trips per day<br />
◆ Same kind of power supply (3.0,<br />
6.0 or 7.7 kilowatts)<br />
By using a Wittur HI pump unit, it is possible to avoid<br />
the installation of an additional cooling system to dissipate<br />
the heat transferred to the oil during operation.<br />
Fast Payback on Investment<br />
Table 1 compares the power consumption of elevators<br />
with different types of drives based on the known efficiency<br />
rates. The drives considered include the Wittur HM<br />
mechanical pump unit, the Wittur HI mechanical pump<br />
unit prototype, gearless drive and the electronic valve<br />
pump unit Wittur HE. From the test, it can be inferred that<br />
the HI, mounted on a residential elevator performing 70<br />
trips per day (load capacity 450 kilograms, five stops),<br />
showed good performance and very low operating costs<br />
on the same level as elevators equipped with gearless drives.<br />
The difference in power consumption between hydraulic<br />
and gearless equipped elevators increases on the<br />
average by 4% each 10 additional trips. Although the<br />
gearless-based solution offers lower power consumption<br />
in this case, it is important to note that there is an additional<br />
cost for a gearless solution to the end user when<br />
compared with hydraulic systems.<br />
As one can see from Table 1, when compared to Wittur<br />
HM and HE, the HI pump allows greater savings with<br />
payback in less than three years. The gearless solution<br />
has a much longer payback (50 years) due to the additional<br />
system cost.<br />
For more information, contact Wittur Hydraulic Drives<br />
at website: www.Wittur.com. �<br />
• Issue 4, Volume 3 • elevatorworldindia.com<br />
39
Field Stories<br />
Reminiscences<br />
by PVN Marar<br />
PVN Marar is the technical<br />
director of TAK Consulting<br />
and has over 40<br />
years of experience in the<br />
vertical-transportation industry<br />
in both <strong>India</strong> and<br />
abroad. He has gained a<br />
reputation for an uncompromising<br />
attitude toward<br />
installation quality and speed. He has been personally<br />
involved with the execution of projects such<br />
as the Shreepati Arcade, Grand Hyatt, Bombay<br />
Stock Exchange and Navin Vidhan Bhavan.<br />
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It was a rainy day, and I was passing<br />
the Powai Lake in Mumbai in a<br />
rickshaw. As I glanced upon the<br />
overflowing lake, I was thrilled and<br />
wished that all the other reservoirs<br />
supplying water to Mumbai had the<br />
same situation, so that like any<br />
Mumbaikar, I would also have enough<br />
water through the year.<br />
Due to a traffic jam, the rickshaw<br />
was moving very slowly. While I was<br />
enjoying the scenic view of the lake,<br />
my thoughts took me back more<br />
than three decades, to when I was<br />
assigned to install a lift at a dam site.<br />
The dam was being built to hold the<br />
mighty waters of the Mahanadi River,<br />
and the project was known as the<br />
Mahanadi reservoir project.<br />
In May 1978, I set out from Mumbai<br />
(then known as Bombay) with all the<br />
paraphernalia needed to reach Raipur,<br />
the nearest railway station to the<br />
site. I reached Raipur in the night<br />
and stayed in a hotel. Early the next<br />
morning, I managed to get a place in<br />
a taxi jeep, which took more than<br />
three hours (covering about 75 kilometers)<br />
to reach Dhamtari, a small<br />
town situated in a remote area in the<br />
state of Madhya Pradesh, now known<br />
as Chhattisgrah. From there, I hired a<br />
cycle rickshaw to cover 7 kilometers<br />
to reach the dam site, Rudri. This<br />
place was surrounded by thick forest,<br />
and later I was told that wild<br />
animals, including bears, had been<br />
seen there. You couldn’t see any settlements<br />
except the residential quarters<br />
built to house the dam officials<br />
and other agencies working at the<br />
dam site. After meeting with dam<br />
officials, I got a temporary accom-<br />
modation at the guest house facing<br />
the vast Mahanadi. Except for me,<br />
there were no other occupants in the<br />
guest house at that time. I had to eat<br />
whatever was available at a few<br />
makeshift eateries at the site. When<br />
you are hungry, anything will taste<br />
good, and the old adage “Those who<br />
toil in the sun know the need for a<br />
shade” came to my mind.<br />
As the temperature passed 40°C,<br />
I became a little restless due to the<br />
heat and loneliness in the middle of<br />
the jungle. The elevator shaft was situated<br />
at the opposite bank of the river,<br />
and I could see the machine room<br />
from my guest house. The next morning,<br />
I again met with dam officials.<br />
Having been briefed on my immediate<br />
work plan, I set out to survey the<br />
shaft and evaluate further requirements<br />
pertaining to the installation.<br />
To reach the elevator shaft, I had<br />
to cross the river either by walking<br />
through knee deep water or to go<br />
further down and cross it through a<br />
temporary road. As the road invariably<br />
became unserviceable during<br />
the monsoons, it was required to<br />
walk more than 1 kilometer up, as<br />
the connecting bridge to both banks<br />
was not ready.<br />
The lift, a high-capacity unit, traveled<br />
from ground level down to the<br />
base of the dam (inspection gallery).<br />
It had four stops and a travel height<br />
of 40 meters. Through the stairs, I<br />
went down to the water-filled pit area<br />
and inspection gallery. The inspection<br />
gallery always had water accumulation<br />
due to water seepage from the<br />
dam. Therefore, an array of heavyduty<br />
pumps was used to continuously<br />
Continued
Field Stories Continued<br />
work to dewater them. As the lift pit was below the level<br />
of the inspection gallery, water seepage in the pit was<br />
also a problem, and there was no option to have a dry pit<br />
as required in a normal elevator shaft. I anticipated some<br />
problems in working in the shaft, especially in the pit. If<br />
the heavy-duty pump failed even for a couple of minutes,<br />
the water level would rise in the shaft enough to drown<br />
me. The officials assured me that they had sentries to<br />
alert and rescue me in case of emergency. I must admit<br />
that I wasn’t reassured. I gave the officials a list of items<br />
to be executed from their side.<br />
The material had reached the site – unfortunately,<br />
along with a long “items to follow” list (balance material<br />
for the job) showing that the car rail and other sundries<br />
would be dispatched later. In those days, it was the policy<br />
of my company to send an erector to jobs without any<br />
assistants. The erector would have to arrange helpers<br />
and other riggers locally. I managed to get two people<br />
locally and set out to check materials as per the list to<br />
ensure that there was no material shortage. I subsequently<br />
asked the client to put up scaffolding in the shaft.<br />
On setting the template, we realized that the hoistway<br />
was out of plumb by more than 100 millimeters, so I had<br />
to shift the template to accommodate the lift in an appropriate<br />
position. I then ordered brackets for the car and<br />
counterweight rails after verifying the reading. In those<br />
days, the brackets were not sent along with other materials.<br />
They were ordered and tailored to suit site measurements.<br />
I made an erection schedule, and a copy was sent to my<br />
office and the dam officials. Incidentally, the only method<br />
of communication was local post for lengthy communication<br />
(delivery in a week) or telegrams for short communication<br />
(24 hours if urgent).<br />
The next activity was to establish the bracket spacing and<br />
pocket marking for rag bolts. (Hammer drills and expan -<br />
sion fasteners had not been introduced.) The civil contractor’s<br />
people started cutting pockets in the concrete wall<br />
(indeed, a tough job). In between, they puffed beedis<br />
(tobacco stuffed in tendu leaves, called “country cigars”).<br />
They never used matches or a lighter to light it; instead, they<br />
rubbed two wood pieces against each other to start a fire.<br />
As the car rail and brackets were not available, I<br />
decided to go ahead with the landing door and then<br />
machine room work. I engaged a local contractor to shift<br />
machine and other equipment into machine room. In two<br />
weeks, I finished the landing doors and machine-room<br />
work, with the exception of wiring. Requisition for main<br />
and field wires were sent to the Mumbai office, and my<br />
follow-up for car rails yielded no result. Again, the field<br />
wiring harness was made to order.<br />
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My weekly progress report to my construction manager<br />
was more like a travelogue than an activity report. I<br />
had enough spare time to think about the rain (which<br />
could occur any time) and the impending troubles ahead.<br />
During the monsoon, I was told that the lift shaft at the<br />
other bank would be inaccessible, as the downstream<br />
where I normally crossed would be flooded. I then had to<br />
walk further down and take a small boat to cross the<br />
river, or walk up 2 kilometers to reach the site. I could<br />
walk, but shifting of the material for which I was waiting<br />
would be a problem. I detailed all these worries in my<br />
report, and my boss was very happy to acknowledge.<br />
After I had exhausted all installable material, I asked<br />
for permission to return to Mumbai, but my plea was<br />
turned down. His argument was that if I left the site, the<br />
officials working for the dam would get furious, as the<br />
completion date was already behind schedule.<br />
Two more weeks went by, and there was still no sign<br />
of material. I frequented the Dhamtari post office by cycle<br />
rickshaw, the only mode of transport available (a roundtrip<br />
distance of 14 kilometers). This was the only nearby<br />
place with facilities to make long-distance calls to my<br />
boss and send telegrams to my family to inform them that<br />
I was okay. There was no question of calling my family;<br />
I didn’t have a phone in my house. In those days, phone<br />
connections were a luxury.<br />
The monsoon arrived; the dam was swollen and slowly<br />
started overflowing. The river had flooded, and there was<br />
no chance to cross it by foot. Meanwhile, the dam construction<br />
company made a temporary rope bridge connecting<br />
both the banks: two 16-millimeter wire ropes,<br />
3 feet apart, anchored on steel pillars on both sides 30<br />
feet above water, with wooden planks connected with<br />
U-clamps and covered with corrugated sheets. A hand<br />
rail was provided on both sides using wire ropes. When<br />
you walked on the bridge, it swayed like a cradle.<br />
Finally, the brackets arrived, and the shifting of heavy<br />
combination brackets was carried across the rope bridge,<br />
which was a very cumbersome task. Fortunately, I was<br />
born and brought up in Talassery, in northern Malabar,<br />
Kerala, from where most of the <strong>India</strong>n circus artists come<br />
from. That’s probably where I got my inspiration to do the<br />
stunts required in carrying these brackets across the<br />
treacherous ravine.<br />
Fixing of the car and counterweight brackets was complete,<br />
and without waiting for the car rail to come, hoisting<br />
(“hoisting” may be the wrong word, because the rails<br />
were actually lowered) and alignment of counterweight<br />
rails were also completed. Again, I had to sit idle for want<br />
of materials. Two days passed, and I spent some time<br />
Continued
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Field Stories Continued<br />
watching locals fishing near the “bucket,” (a tanklike concrete<br />
structure where the overflowing water fell) using a<br />
netted basket mounted on the end of long bamboos.<br />
Plenty of big fish leaped along the overflowing water<br />
from the dam and were trapped in the basket. More than<br />
a dozen would be caught in an hour. Other times, I would<br />
watch construction people making Babbitted sockets for<br />
dam shutter rope connections. I was interested in this,<br />
because the shutter raising and lowering operation was<br />
like a drum-wound hoist. It had a motor, a drum to wind<br />
the rope and limit switches, using the same principle as<br />
that for elevators.<br />
The car rails had not yet arrived, and as nothing further<br />
could be done on the work front, I decided to deviate<br />
from the normal procedure, assembling the car frame<br />
and doing the roping. I had to take extra care to assemble<br />
the car frame in the absence of a car rail, as the<br />
plumbness and squareness solely depended upon various<br />
braces and supports from the scaffolding. In normal practice,<br />
car guide shoes (which hold the car frame in position<br />
with car rails) enables the process to be done easier. The<br />
normal practice of resting the bottom safety-plank props<br />
from the pit could not be applied here, as the assembly<br />
was done at ground level, which in this case was the top<br />
terminal landing. I had added some weights in the counterweight<br />
frame, so that I could crank the car frame<br />
slightly to relieve the weight from the scaffolding.<br />
My construction manager (a heavily built person) visited<br />
the site, and not being from my birthplace, refused to<br />
use the rope bridge, though he tried few steps on it. I took<br />
him to the boat, and we crossed the river. When he saw<br />
the car frame and the rope around the car sheave, he was<br />
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impressed, asking me with suspicion (at the same time)<br />
how the car rail would be fitted. I told him that I had definitely<br />
planned to turn away the car frame slightly from<br />
the car rail space, so that the placing of rails and their<br />
alignment could be done without any obstruction. The<br />
only additional task would be to remove and refit the<br />
safety block. In a worst-case scenario, one of the car rails<br />
from any side adjacent to the car frame would be removed<br />
after proper marking on both sides of the rail, on two<br />
brackets attached to the rail. Next, the dismantled rail<br />
would be suspended on a rope and slowly engaged with<br />
the already displaced car frame’s upright channel, bringing<br />
back the car frame (with rail) to its original position<br />
and verifying it with the markings. My boss’ gesture<br />
appeared to indicate that he was satisfied with my plan.<br />
I fixed the governor tension pulley at the bottom and<br />
did the roping without connecting it to the car frame. If I<br />
had connected it, the shifting of the car frame would be a<br />
problem. I kept the tension pulley unit at the maximum<br />
possible height from the pit floor, ignoring the specified<br />
height shown in the layout drawing. This was done to<br />
avoid the same from submerging in water. If the pulley<br />
became submerged, the governor rope would carry the<br />
water up to the car top while in operation. My next problem<br />
was to install the selector idler pulley in the pit. In<br />
those days, the expansion concrete fasteners and concrete<br />
drills were not introduced, and hence, rag bolts had<br />
to be grouted into the pit floor. Provision for a sump was<br />
made in the pit, and dewatering was an ongoing process.<br />
In spite of all these exercises, there was heavy water<br />
leakage from the pit floor. Thrice, I tried to grout the bolt<br />
for the idler but failed, as the concrete mixture got diluted<br />
in water. I abandoned the idea of grouting the bolt and<br />
placed three filler weights on the base of the idler pulley.<br />
This finally worked. Once I fixed the trough in the hoistway,<br />
everything I could do with the materials available at<br />
the site had been completed.<br />
My boss finally agreed to move me from the site, not to<br />
Mumbai, but to Bhopal. At Bhopal, I spent two months<br />
completing a three-stop lift with a rear opening. Upon<br />
returning to the dam, I received rails and other balance<br />
materials, but to my dismay, all the rails were bent. Later,<br />
I learned that the defects happened during transition due<br />
to mishandling. The shipment took more than one month<br />
to reach the site from Mumbai. (The normal time was one<br />
week to 10 days.) The loading and unloading process occurred<br />
in several places, and those doing the work apparently<br />
used the rail as a ramp to load and unload other<br />
materials. I sent a detailed report, and the reply was as I<br />
expected: I was asked to straighten the rails at the site, as<br />
the delay for new rails to come would be more than three
months. Fortunately, the main civil contractor’s chief was<br />
my acquaintance, who gave me some tips and helped me to<br />
straighten the rails back to their original form. I succeeded<br />
to bring it back almost to its original shape. What lacked<br />
could be managed by providing extra brackets and supports.<br />
The work was completed, and lift started in slow<br />
speed. During this commissioning, on a few occasions,<br />
the governor tension pulley and selector idler pulley<br />
were submerged in water. This water was carried by the<br />
rope and selector tape up to machine room and partially<br />
deposited at the governor and selector base. The rest<br />
reached the car top. I installed a crude type of a rope<br />
wiper at the car side of the governor rope and selector<br />
tape to minimize the amount of water entering the car top.<br />
Finally, the elevator was commissioned, though it had<br />
taken seven (minus a break of two) months. Except for<br />
Sundays, there was not a single day in which I did not<br />
visit the site. Even if I had no work to do there, I would<br />
have a cursory look at the installation.<br />
I am not working for that lift company anymore. Last<br />
month, with some nostalgia, I received information that<br />
the lift was working. I had maintained it up to a few<br />
months back.<br />
When I look back, sitting in my office as an elevator<br />
consultant, I feel satisfied in the way I executed the job in<br />
such an environment, but the delay caused due to logistics<br />
support cannot be excused. <strong>Elevator</strong> installation requires<br />
the involvement of various agencies: the civil work contractor,<br />
electrical contractor, riggers, interior contractors<br />
for the lift lobby, structural consultants, scaffolders and<br />
more. What we need to complete a job in time is dedication,<br />
a meeting of commitments, a proactive approach,<br />
an anticipation of problems and corrective action – a<br />
combined approach toward the goal. It is the work of a<br />
team, and the team leader is the installer. The end result<br />
and success depends on his planning. I wish to tell this<br />
story to the new generation of installation teams and my<br />
customers. I hope they will listen.<br />
In all fairness to readers who know this story, it<br />
is necessary to elaborate that the author, before<br />
being sent to the dam site, had just returned to<br />
Mumbai with his newly married wife. While the<br />
separation from his wife was bad enough, being<br />
alone in the middle of the jungle understandably<br />
made it worse. However, on his second stint, his<br />
boss allowed him to take his wife to the site. Perhaps<br />
the boss’ visit to the site helped. Undoubtedly,<br />
many veterans from the industry would have<br />
similar stories to share, and their spouses would<br />
have complaints that they rarely saw their newly<br />
married partner. . . . Editor<br />
• Issue 4, Volume 3 • elevatorworldindia.com<br />
45
Project Spotlight<br />
<strong>Burj</strong><br />
<strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
by James W. Fortune<br />
Background<br />
Unlike the last three “world’s tallest”<br />
record holders, the 508-meter-tall Taipei<br />
101 Tower in Taiwan, the 492-meter-tall<br />
Shanghai <strong>World</strong> Financial Center and the<br />
452-meter-tall Petronas Towers in Malaysia<br />
(Figure 1), which were all 100% office occupancy<br />
towers, the just completed 162-story,<br />
828-meter-tall <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> Tower was designed<br />
from its inception for multi-use tenancies.<br />
The 3-million-square-foot tower is<br />
planned to house about 4,000 tenants and<br />
visitors, compared to about 15,000 office<br />
tenants that would be projected to occupy the<br />
space, had it been designed exclusively for<br />
office tenants.<br />
The <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> “Super Tower” contains<br />
the following major components in their ascending order:<br />
(Figure 2)<br />
◆ An 11-level (plus two upper levels), 220-room, five-star<br />
Giorgio Armani hotel (levels 5-16, 38 and 39)<br />
◆ A 19-story, 405-room serviced-apartment section,<br />
which can be rented out as overflow hotel rooms or as<br />
short-term stay apartments (levels 19-37)<br />
◆ A 30-level, standard 343-room residential section (levels<br />
43-72)<br />
◆ A 33-level, 250-room luxury residential section (levels<br />
76-108)<br />
◆ Three sections of corporate suites (boutique offices),<br />
37 floors total (levels 112-121, 125-140 and 144-154)<br />
◆ Three levels of observatory, residential and hotel club<br />
floors (levels 122-124)<br />
◆ Three levels of commercial communications and highdefinition<br />
television (HDTV) broadcast equipment (levels<br />
155-158)<br />
◆ 50 spire unoccupied levels reserved for the tuned<br />
sloshing damper located in the lower floors.<br />
The adjacent four-level, 1,950,000-square-foot podium<br />
floors contain parking, building services, the hotel pool,<br />
ballroom and meeting levels, restaurants and retail<br />
stacks.<br />
The required passenger elevators designs, in any project,<br />
are based upon the number of projected building tenants<br />
and their anticipated arrival and departure patterns.<br />
It is the predominate hotel, residential and condominium<br />
nature of the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> and its low projected occupancies,<br />
that makes the tower core so efficient. Thus, the <strong>Burj</strong><br />
<strong>Khalifa</strong> only required the installation of 32 main passenger<br />
elevators to meet the mainly residential tenancy, with<br />
world-class design standards. A similar size, 15,000-plusperson<br />
office tower would require the installation of<br />
about 75 single-deck or about 53 double-deck group passenger<br />
elevators to meet Class “A” office design standards.<br />
Discussion: Why Build It?<br />
The first question the general public may ask when<br />
contemplating the ever-continuing progress towards “the<br />
new world’s tallest tower” may well be, why build it?<br />
Continued<br />
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<strong>Burj</strong><br />
<strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
Continued<br />
While the recent development of new structural materials<br />
such as high-strength concrete (the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong>’s<br />
tower core is primarily concrete) and high-speed, supertravel<br />
elevators (the combination low-rise, service/<br />
firefighters’/medical emergency/transformer core replacement<br />
lift, #FE1 has a world record travel of 504.2 meters<br />
[1,654 feet]), certainly have contributed to the viability of<br />
constructing such a tower. The real reasons the iconic<br />
<strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> tower was built are more psychological than<br />
economic:<br />
◆ Because we can<br />
◆ Puts Dubai on the international stage<br />
◆ Captures the Guinness Book of <strong>World</strong> Records for the<br />
world’s tallest tower – all three categories<br />
◆ Increases the surrounding building plot values.<br />
As reported in the Wikipedia <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> website listing,<br />
the super tower cost reportedly US$5.5 billion. The iconic<br />
<strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> tower is the anchor tower for the surrounding<br />
area, which includes multiple residential towers,<br />
hotels and the latest “world’s largest” mall, the Dubai Mall.<br />
Even though the initial tower costs of the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
will, no doubt, never be recaptured from the tower resi-<br />
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dential, office and hotel sales, leases and rents, the increased<br />
value and revalues from the surrounding land<br />
plots should compensate for the tower “losses.”<br />
The <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> Tower now holds three world’s tallest<br />
milestone records, as established by the Council on Tall<br />
Buildings and Urban Habitat:<br />
◆ Highest occupied floor: level 162<br />
◆ Highest roof level: 621.3 meters<br />
◆ The distance to any tower top spire or antenna top:<br />
828 meters<br />
All toll, the vertical transportation equipment came<br />
to: US$28,500,000 (awarded to Otis <strong>Elevator</strong> Co.) and<br />
included:<br />
◆ 32 gearless traction lifts<br />
◆ 20 machine-room-less (MRL) lifts<br />
◆ One glass hydraulic (direct plunger, 2 stage jack)<br />
◆ Two wheelchair lifts<br />
◆ One spire rack-and-pinion/workman’s lift<br />
◆ Eight escalators<br />
“Lifeboat” <strong>Elevator</strong> Emergency Evacuations<br />
The <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> is the first building in the world to use<br />
designated express travel elevators for tenant, residents,<br />
employees and visitor evacuations, after a calamitous<br />
event. As the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> elevator designs were being<br />
planned, shortly after the demise of New York City’s<br />
<strong>World</strong> Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 on September 11,<br />
2001, the architects and consultants were increasingly<br />
concerned that it was virtually impossible to utilize conventional<br />
emergency exit stairs alone to evacuate the<br />
building occupants. Thus, was born the idea to specify
<strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
2,600 feet<br />
Dubai 2010<br />
Figure 1: <strong>World</strong>’s tallest<br />
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10<br />
Taipei 101<br />
1,667 feet<br />
Taipei 2004<br />
Shanghai <strong>World</strong><br />
Financial Center<br />
1,614 feet<br />
Shanghai 2008<br />
Petronas<br />
Towers 1&2<br />
1,483 feet<br />
Kuala Lumpur<br />
1998<br />
that selected sky-lobby shuttles and the building service<br />
elevators should be equipped with special “lifeboat” elevator<br />
evacuation controls, clearing functions and operations.<br />
The selected evacuation elevators were set up with the<br />
following features:<br />
1. Full-time emergency standby-power provisions for<br />
each elevator<br />
2. ASME A17.1 <strong>Elevator</strong> Code Mandated Firefighters’<br />
Phase 1 (return) and Phase 2 (Firefighter’s) Operations<br />
3. ASME A17.1 <strong>Elevator</strong> Code required 125% of design<br />
load platforms, slings and suspensions so that the<br />
elevators cannot be overloaded and “stuck” during full<br />
load evacuations<br />
4. Remote hoistway-clearing test runs, on board car-top<br />
closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, lights and<br />
building-management-system video screens, in-cab<br />
Willis Tower<br />
1,451 feet<br />
Chicago<br />
1974<br />
Trump<br />
International<br />
Hotel &<br />
Tower<br />
1,389 feet<br />
Chicago 2009<br />
Jin Mao<br />
Building<br />
1,381 feet<br />
Shanghai<br />
1999<br />
Two<br />
International<br />
Finance Center<br />
1,362 feet<br />
Hong Kong<br />
2003<br />
CITIC Plaza<br />
1,280 feet<br />
Guangzhou<br />
1996<br />
Shun Hing<br />
Square<br />
1,260 feet<br />
Shenzhen<br />
1996<br />
CCTV cameras and intercom communications with<br />
fire attendants/monitors. Test runs not required for<br />
fire-only evacuations.<br />
5. In-cab individual, key-operated car attendant operations,<br />
floor selections and constant-pressure doorclose<br />
buttons.<br />
6. Express-run lifeboat selections only to run between<br />
two stops: the upper, designated evacuations floor<br />
(usually a sky lobby or area of refuge [AOR} floor) and<br />
the ground (exiting) level(s).<br />
The designated evacuation elevators, when on<br />
“lifeboat” attendant operations, are designed to evacuate<br />
their designated sky lobby or refuge floor populations in<br />
less than 60 minutes.<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Hoistway Venting and Stack<br />
Effect Mitigations<br />
From the adoption of the first elevator design<br />
codes, there have always been provisions to provide<br />
the top of high-rise elevator shafts with hoistway<br />
venting to the outside air. The vents consisted<br />
of about 3 square feet (0.3 square meters) of open<br />
area, with the intended purpose of venting hot<br />
smoke and gases that may accumulate at the top of<br />
the elevator hoistway during a building or pit fire<br />
and to prevent flashover “ball fire” from reigniting<br />
after the main building fire was extinguished.<br />
With the development of modern elevators,<br />
equipped with car and counterweight roller guide<br />
shoes, running on milled steel rails, the older type<br />
greased and oiled solid guide shoes, sometimes<br />
running on wooden rails, were no longer used. The<br />
application of roller guides and steel rails dramatically<br />
reduced the accumulation of combustible<br />
materials in the elevator pits, which can eliminate<br />
the frequency of pit and hoistway fires, and the<br />
need for hoistway vents. Continued<br />
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<strong>Burj</strong><br />
<strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
Continued<br />
As high building designs continued to evolve,<br />
the fully sealed and air-conditioned building<br />
became commonplace. The hoistway venting<br />
requirements did not change except when energy<br />
costs increased, necessitating the addition of<br />
motorized or spring-operated shutters added to<br />
the vents in order to minimize the loss of building<br />
heating and air conditioning.<br />
Building stack effect normally occurs in high<br />
rise buildings located in northern climates, when<br />
the cold outside air entering the building at the<br />
group floor(s) flows into the elevator shafts and<br />
escapes through the upper levels (often through<br />
the hoistway smoke vents) to outside air.<br />
Some building codes permit the deletion of<br />
the hoistway smoke vents, if the hoistways are<br />
fully sprinklered (usually not permitted in buildings<br />
provided with overnight sleeping quarters).<br />
Even though the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> is located in a desert<br />
climate, with summer temperatures approaching<br />
120°F, it was estimated that due to the extreme<br />
building height, the outside temperature at the<br />
building top could be 15°F less than at the<br />
bottom. If the elevator hoistways were to be<br />
equipped with normal smoke vents, it was feared<br />
that at “reverse” stack effect could occur with the<br />
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HOTEL PASSENGER ELEVATORS<br />
4ea, H1-H4, 1600 kg @ 5.0mps<br />
Serving: GR,1, 3, 5-16, 38, 39<br />
HOTEL SERVICE ELEVATORS<br />
2ea, HS1 & HS2, 1600-1800 kg @ 3.5 mps<br />
Serving: C (BOH), GR, 1-39<br />
3 ea, HS3-HS5, 1350-1600 kg @ 1.75 mps<br />
2 ea Serving: B1, C, GR, 1-3<br />
1 ea Serving: C, GR, 1-3<br />
HOTEL RESTAURANT PASSENGER ELEVATORS<br />
1 ea, HR1, 1600 kg@1.75mps<br />
Serving: C, GR, 1<br />
HOTEL SPA ELEVATOR<br />
1 ea HF3, 1800 kg @ 1.75mps<br />
Serving: C, GR, 1, 1M, 2, 3<br />
SERVICED APARTMENT PASSENGER ELEVATORS<br />
3 ea, HA1- HA3, 1350 kg @ 5.0mps<br />
Serving: GR, 1, 3, 9-16, 18, 19-39<br />
RESIDENTIAL PASSENGER ELEVATORS<br />
3 ea, R7-R9, 1350 kg @ 3.5 mps<br />
Serving: 43 (SL), 44, 45-72<br />
3 ea, R10-12, 1350 kg @ 3.5 mps<br />
Serving: 76(SL) 77 (SL), 78-108<br />
RESIDENTIAL SKY LOBBY SHUTTLE ELEVATORS<br />
3 ea, R1-R3, 1600 kg @ 5.0 mps<br />
Serving: GR & 43(SL)<br />
3 ea, R4-R6, 1600 kg @ 7.0 mps<br />
Serving: GR & 76(SL)<br />
OBSERVATORY/OFFICE SHUTTLE ELEVATORS<br />
2 ea, OB1 & OB2, 1600/1600 kg @ 10.0 mps<br />
Serving: C, GR, 123, 124<br />
BOUTIQUE OFFICE PASSENGER ELEVATORS<br />
3 ea, BO1 - BO3, 1350 kg @ 1.75 mps (MRL)<br />
Serving: 112-122, 123(SL)<br />
3 ea, BO4 - BO6, 1350 kg @ 5.0 mps<br />
Serving: 123(SL), 124(SL), 125-135, 139-154<br />
FIREFIGHTERS’ / SERVICE ELEVATORS<br />
1 ea, BS1/F, 4500 kg @ 9.0 & 2.5 mps<br />
Serving: C, GR< 1-40, 42-73, 75-136, 138<br />
1 ea, BS2/F, 2250 kg @ 9.0 & 2.5 mps<br />
Serving: C, GR, 1-40, 42-73, 75-109, 111<br />
1 ea, BS3/F, 3628 kg @ 1.75 mps<br />
Serving: 138-160<br />
BALLROOM ELEVATORS<br />
2 ea, HB1 & HB2, 1600 kg @ 1.75 mps<br />
Serving: C, GR, 1<br />
PARKING ELEVATORS<br />
4 ea, Hotel HP1 - HP 4, 1350 kg @ 1.75 mps<br />
Serving: B2, B1, C, GR, 1 & 3<br />
2 ea, Residential RP1, RP2, 1350 kg @ 1.75 mps<br />
Serving: B2, B1, C, GR, 1<br />
2 ea, Office OP1 & OP2, 1350 kg @ 1.75 mps<br />
Serving: B2, B1, GR, 1<br />
Figure 2<br />
anticipated outside building temperature variations,<br />
causing the building cooling to flow out of<br />
the building at the ground. Therefore, it was<br />
decided to provide each elevator hoistway top<br />
with a sprinkler head that is responsive to heat<br />
and smoke. The elevator machine rooms have<br />
similar sprinklers and are equipped with shunt<br />
trip devices that prevent the sprinklers from being<br />
energized, until electrical power is removed from<br />
the hoist machines.<br />
The Next Generation<br />
of Super-Tall Buildings<br />
. . . and the beat goes on:<br />
◆ The 1-kilometer-tall Nakheel Harbour and<br />
Tower planned for Dubai has been cancelled.<br />
◆ The 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower, presently<br />
being planned for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is in<br />
the design stage and is slowly progressing.<br />
The 1-mile-high, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed<br />
Tower planned for Chicago is still “pie in the sky.”<br />
Note:<br />
The two observatory lifts at 10 mps, up and<br />
down, are not the world’s fastest, despite the<br />
Wikipedia report that they have a speed of 18<br />
mps. The current cost to travel on these lifts to<br />
the 124th observatory level is now US$27 per<br />
person with a reservation and US$108 without;<br />
maximum permitted stay is 90 minutes!<br />
James Fortune will be speaking on the topic<br />
“<strong>Elevator</strong> Systems in Super High Rise Buildings” at<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> <strong>World</strong>’s Virtual <strong>Elevator</strong> Event in 2011.<br />
All photos, figures and text were provided by James W. Fortune<br />
and M.J. Mohamed Iqbal<br />
James W. Fortune is the president of<br />
Fortune Consultants, Ltd., a prominent<br />
elevatoring consulting firm with offices in<br />
Colorado, Texas and Dubai, U.A.E. Fortune<br />
has more than 36 years experience in analyzing<br />
and designing the elevators in the<br />
world’s tallest buildings, including the 508m<br />
high Taipei 101 (world’s tallest tower), the<br />
162 story, 700m+ high <strong>Burj</strong> Dubai Tower,<br />
presently under construction and is currently working on the<br />
latest crop of 100+ story towers. He graduated from California<br />
State Polytechnic College in 1967 with a B.S. Degree in Industrial<br />
Technology and obtained his M.B.A. from the University of Denver<br />
in 1989. He has written extensively on all aspects of elevator<br />
designs, applications and technological changes and has had numerous<br />
articles published on these subjects.<br />
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<strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
Rises in Dubai<br />
by M.J. Mohamed Iqbal, EW Correspondent<br />
On January 4, a celebration atop<br />
the dizzying height of the architectural<br />
landmark towering over the<br />
skyline of Dubai created history when<br />
His Highness Sheikh Mohammad<br />
Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the vice<br />
president and prime minister of the<br />
U.A.E. and ruler of Dubai, opened<br />
what had been known as the <strong>Burj</strong><br />
Dubai on the anniversary of his ascension<br />
day. In addition, <strong>Burj</strong> Dubai<br />
was renamed <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> by Sheikh<br />
Mohamed, noting that great buildings<br />
must possess great names. The<br />
building was named after <strong>Khalifa</strong><br />
Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is president<br />
of the U.A.E. and ruler of Abu<br />
Dhabi.<br />
The Dubai government’s decision<br />
to diversify from a trade-based, but<br />
oil-reliant economy, into one that is<br />
service- and tourism-oriented, converted<br />
real estate and related developments<br />
into blue chip investments<br />
propelling a property boom. Construction<br />
on a large scale turned Dubai<br />
into one of the fastest-growing cities<br />
in the world.<br />
The Birth of an Idea<br />
February 2003 was when the concept<br />
for the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> was conceived.<br />
Canadian Mark Amirault,<br />
who is group senior director for<br />
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development at Emaar Properties,<br />
along with fellow countryman Robert<br />
Booth, now the executive director at<br />
Emaar, and Mohamed Ai Alabbar,<br />
Emaar’s founder and chairman, (who<br />
is also a former chief of Dubai’s<br />
Department of Economic Development)<br />
held a late-night dinner meeting<br />
in Dubai to plan what would<br />
become the world’s tallest structure.<br />
A decision was reached and with the<br />
guidance of Sheikh Mohammed –<br />
the idea of the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> and<br />
its attendant development came<br />
into being.<br />
On September 21, 2004, a wide<br />
range of heavy earth-moving equipment<br />
was brought to the site and<br />
construction work began. The building<br />
sits on a concrete-and-steel<br />
podium, with 192 pilings that go<br />
about 150 feet into the earth. The<br />
project is part of a AED73-billion<br />
(US$20-billion) development project<br />
located at the Business Bay district<br />
near Old Town, known as Downtown<br />
<strong>Burj</strong> Dubai. The 200-hectare development<br />
was billed as the most prestigious<br />
square kilometer of a real<br />
estate, creating a harmonious blend<br />
of the past and present. Old Town<br />
has residential and retail facilities<br />
and has become a major attraction<br />
Design Inspiration<br />
hymenocallis<br />
Building outline<br />
(top view)<br />
Ground level<br />
outline (top<br />
view)<br />
The architects of <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> incorporated Islamic<br />
traditional patterns and modern sophistication to design<br />
a structure that will hopefully stand the test of<br />
time. The end product is a visually stunning building<br />
towering over the Dubai skyline. The hymenocallis<br />
desert flower was the main source of inspiration. The<br />
design not only reduces wind forces on the building,<br />
but also allows each tenant to have an incredible view<br />
of the surrounds.<br />
From the top of the structure, the islamic design<br />
influences can be seen, including the use of arches.
for tourists because of the traditional<br />
Arabic architecture and design characteristics<br />
of the area.<br />
Design and Construction<br />
Standing at a height of more than<br />
828 meters, with more than 160<br />
stories, its design was initiated by<br />
American Adrian Smith before being<br />
handed over to Skidmore, Owings<br />
and Merrill (SOM) of Chicago. In the<br />
design of <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong>, one can find<br />
an apparent shadow of patterning<br />
systems, usually integral to embossed<br />
Islamic architecture. The tower’s<br />
base and geometry have a triplelobed<br />
footprint of the building,<br />
reflecting the six-petal abstract desert<br />
flower native to the region, as well<br />
as an indigenous Islamic pattern.<br />
The base of the <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> blossoms<br />
to allow the tower a graceful<br />
transition from the ground to maximize<br />
views, while the dome-shaped<br />
plan profile accentuates a series of<br />
steps, up the vertical height of the<br />
building. A subtle reference to the<br />
onion domes of Islamic architecture<br />
can be found in the building’s silhouette<br />
when looking up the lobes<br />
from near the base.<br />
Structural engineer William F.<br />
Baker, a partner in the Chicago office<br />
of SOM, explained that designers<br />
purposely shaped the structural concrete<br />
<strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> – a thick Y in plan<br />
<strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong> opens to the world.<br />
with a stepped-back profile – to<br />
“dramatically” reduce forces on the<br />
tower, by keeping the structure simple<br />
and to foster constructability.<br />
The tower was built by South<br />
Korea’s Samsung Corp. New Yorkbased<br />
Turner Construction International<br />
was the project and construction<br />
manager. The owners of the<br />
project are Dubai-based Public Joint<br />
Stock Co. Emaar Properties developed<br />
the project.<br />
The building’s vertical transportation<br />
includes 24 Gen2 MRL elevators<br />
that feature flat, polyurethanecoated<br />
belts that reduce energy<br />
consumption up to 50% compared<br />
with conventional units. The hotel<br />
group’s Gen2 elevators run in the<br />
wings of the building (serving from<br />
B2 and B1 up to the third floor). One<br />
of the circular observation lifts<br />
serves three floors in the hotel’s<br />
restaurant area and is capable of<br />
accommodating 21 passengers. Two<br />
of the Gen2 systems run in the pool<br />
annex building in the hotel spa area.<br />
Eight Gen2 elevators run in the<br />
Office Annex building, including a fivecar<br />
group featuring the Compass®<br />
system. One of the Gen2 units runs<br />
for VIP private use, serving floors<br />
107, 108 and 112, and two run in the<br />
residential parking area.<br />
The Foundation<br />
The <strong>Burj</strong> <strong>Khalifa</strong>, which weighs about 500,000<br />
tons, rests on a 3.7m-thick triangular frame foundation,<br />
supported by rounded steel piles measuring<br />
1.5 m in diameter and extending 50 m below the<br />
ground.<br />
Bracing for the Wind<br />
Over 40 wind tunnel tests were conducted on<br />
<strong>Burj</strong> Dubai to examine the effects the wind would<br />
have on the tower and its occupants. These<br />
ranged from tests to establish the wind climate of<br />
Dubai, to pressure tests on the building facade.<br />
In super-tall buildings, there are changes in<br />
pressure and temperature with height. Special<br />
studies were conducted to determine the magnitude<br />
of the changes that would have to be dealt<br />
with in the building design.<br />
Spire<br />
The crowning touch is its<br />
telescopic spire that is comprised<br />
of more than 4,000 tons<br />
of structural steel.<br />
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Engineering<br />
Assumption on New Design<br />
of Two Safety Components<br />
by Huang Dongling and Xing Jian<br />
Buffer Vertical Baffle<br />
EN 115 5.2.4 prescribes, “Where building obstacles can<br />
cause injuries, appropriate preventive measures shall be<br />
taken; see 7.3.1.” In particular, at floor intersections and on<br />
criss-cross escalators or passenger conveyors, a vertical<br />
obstruction of not less than .3 m in height, not presenting<br />
any sharp cutting edges, shall be placed above the<br />
balustrade decking (e.g., as an imperforate triangle). It is<br />
not necessary to comply with these requirements when<br />
the distance between the centerline of the handrail and<br />
any obstacle is equal to or greater than .5 m.<br />
According to the above prescription and the analysis of<br />
previous escalator accidents, the vertical baffle has two<br />
functions: 1) to prevent the passengers from being<br />
trapped between the escalator and the obstacle and 2) to<br />
change the impact direction toward the passengers.<br />
However, the escalator standard doesn’t provide whether<br />
the vertical baffle and the building should be connected<br />
permanently or temporarily, or, if the connection is permanent,<br />
how much connection strength there should be.<br />
The impact of the permanent baffle against the human<br />
Figure 1: 1=bolt, 2=spacer, 3=baffle, 4=sheet metal (a)=enlarged figure<br />
through direction A, (b)=front view, (c)=left view, (d)=view when the baffle is<br />
impacted and (e)=enlarged figure through B.<br />
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body is great, and the baffle itself is easily damaged and<br />
may cause injuries, while the removable baffle can only<br />
remind the passengers of drawing back timely (but cannot<br />
prevent, in essence, the passengers from being<br />
trapped between the escalator and the obstacle, nor reduce<br />
the impact against the body). In order to solve such<br />
problems, we have designed a new baffle ((a) in Figure 1).<br />
The baffle is made of organic glass, light and aesthetic.<br />
The angle α is equal to the sliding angle of the escalator.<br />
The baffle curls outward to enlarge the distance between the<br />
handrail and buffer vertical baffle, while reducing the impact<br />
of the baffle against the human body. The sheet-metal<br />
material is elastic sheet steel with suitable stiffness.<br />
This kind of baffle is improved from the traditional baffle.<br />
When a crash happens, the sheet metal will produce<br />
an elastic deformation ((b) in Figure 1) toward the running<br />
direction of the escalator and thereby absorb part of the<br />
kinetic energy from the crash. In this way, it buffers the<br />
impact against the objects (human bodies) and therefore<br />
reduces the impact strength and the potential injury<br />
toward human bodies and extends the service life of the<br />
Continued<br />
Figure 2: 1=car (or counterweight) strike plate, 2=knock rod, 3=restoring<br />
spring, 4=upper bracket, 5=arresting pin, 6=piston, 7=lower bracket,<br />
8=switch and 9=base
Engineering Continued<br />
baffle. When the sheet metal deforms to the degree that<br />
the upper plane of the baffle touches the lower plane of<br />
the floor, it becomes a rigid baffle, which can effectively<br />
prevent the passengers from being trapped between the<br />
escalator and obstacle. This design has simple and artistic<br />
structure and it is easy to manufacture and install.<br />
In order to reduce this kind of accident, it is suggested<br />
that the escalator standard be updated to state that a sign<br />
or picture that illustrates “Not Exceeding the Handrail”<br />
shall be put in the baffle and in the instructions at the<br />
entrance of the escalator to reduce or prevent the injuries<br />
caused by such accidents.<br />
As this kind of accident can easily happen because of<br />
passengers’ carelessness, it is suggested that relevant<br />
functional departments may standardize this component<br />
when it becomes applicable and bring it into the super -<br />
visory scope of safety components.<br />
Sliding-Rod-Type Hydraulic Buffer<br />
EN81-1:1998 10.5.1 prescribes that the final limit<br />
switches should operate before the car (or counterweight,<br />
if there is one) comes into contact with the buffers. The<br />
action of the final limit switches shall be maintained,<br />
while the buffers are compressed. EN81-1:1998 10.4.3.4<br />
prescribes that the normal operation of the lift shall depend<br />
on the return of the buffers to their normal extended<br />
position after operation. The device for checking this shall<br />
be an electric safety device in conformity with 14.1.2.<br />
Car Hydraulic Buffers<br />
As the existing car hydraulic buffer and the lower final<br />
limit switch are installed separately and their functioning<br />
sequence depends on the installation skills of the installers,<br />
both installers and supervisors must check carefully to<br />
ensure their correct position. This can consume a lot of time<br />
and energy and may not effectively ensure their accurate<br />
position. On the other hand, the existing hydraulic buffer<br />
and the limit positions of the car are separately installed<br />
with two electric switches. These<br />
two electric switches are connected<br />
in series in the safety circuit<br />
of the elevator; thus, they actually<br />
have the same functions and,<br />
therefore, cause the waste of electric<br />
components.<br />
Counterweight Hydraulic Buffers<br />
During the operation of elevators,<br />
the length of the hoist rope<br />
often changes with the operative<br />
length of the elevator and the<br />
climate. Such changes would be<br />
more obvious when new wire<br />
rope is used or when the overall<br />
lifting height of the elevator is great.<br />
When the hoisting rope extends to<br />
The new hydraulic buffer<br />
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the degree that the counterweight buffer runby is less<br />
than the upper limit runby (which is not compliant with<br />
EN81-1:1998 10.5.1), it is often difficult for elevator maintenance<br />
workers to find. Thus, the elevator continues operation,<br />
while potential safety problems still exist.<br />
In order to solve these problems, we have improved<br />
the structure of the buffer, as follows: the electric safety<br />
switch of the buffer acts concurrently as the lower final<br />
limit switch (Figure 2). The knock rod 2 of the switch of<br />
the traditional elevator hydraulic buffer is designed to be<br />
a structure that can slide over the upper bracket 4 of the<br />
piston; the top surface of knock rod 2 is higher than the<br />
top surface of the buffer piston for a distance of b; the<br />
restoring spring 3 in the knock rod is used to guarantee<br />
the automatic reset of switch 8; one side of the upper<br />
bracket 4 is fixed to the buffer piston, and the other side<br />
is engaged with the knock rod 2; one side of the arresting<br />
pin 5 of detent is fixed to the upper bracket 4, and the<br />
other side is engaged with the ratchet trough to confine<br />
the extension height of the knock rod 2; one side of the<br />
lower bracket 7 of buffer base is fixed to the buffer base 9,<br />
and the other side is engaged with knock rod 2.<br />
In relation to Figure 2, when the car goes down directly<br />
to the bottom to touch the buffer, the car will first cross<br />
the lower terminal landing and go forward for the lower<br />
limit runby of a. Then, the strike plate 1 of the car will hit<br />
the top surface of the knock rod 2 and push the rod 2<br />
to move over the other components of the buffer, which<br />
consequently forces the switch 8 to function to cut the<br />
safety circuit of the elevator. When the car moves a distance<br />
of b, the strike plate 1 will hit the top surface of<br />
buffer piston 6, then the car will decelerate as a result of<br />
the buffer functioning.<br />
It can be seen that if the final limit switch is installed<br />
below the knock rod of the buffer, it can not only confine<br />
the car position, but also check the reset status of the<br />
hydraulic buffer piston. Consequently, this design not<br />
only saves a buffer switch, but also some installation,<br />
adjustment and position testing toward the lower final<br />
limit switch and the car buffer. Moreover, it ensures the<br />
right functioning sequence of these two components, as<br />
the lower final limit switch of the car acts concurrently as<br />
the reset check switch of the hydraulic buffer.<br />
Referring to Figure 2, for the counterweight hydraulic<br />
buffer, we may adjust the above distance b to be a little<br />
greater than the upper limit runby of the car to improve<br />
the safety protection function and make sure that the<br />
elevator in use conforms to relevant regulations of EN81-<br />
1:1998 10.5.1.<br />
Huang Dongling and Xing Jian are elevator inspectors at the Shenzhen<br />
<strong>Institute</strong> of Special Equipment Inspection and Test in Shenzhen, China.
Public Safety<br />
Independent Safety Assessment<br />
for Transportation System<br />
by Kenneth Chan Man Wong<br />
Kenneth Chan Man Wong is a member of the<br />
International Organization of Transportation and<br />
International Association of <strong>Elevator</strong> Engineers.<br />
He has nearly 25 years of industry experience and<br />
has held various positions ranging from an assistant<br />
manager in Mitsubishi <strong>Elevator</strong> and Escalator<br />
Engineering Centre, an O&M manager in NP360<br />
Cable Car Ltd. to a principal engineer in the Land<br />
Transport Authority of Singapore. Wong holds an<br />
MS in Lift Engineering from the University of<br />
Northampton.<br />
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Introduction<br />
My previous articles, “Hazard<br />
Analysis and Risk Assessment” and<br />
“Advanced Techniques for Risk<br />
Assessment” (ELEVATOR WORLD,<br />
October and November 2003, respectively),<br />
looked at the principle of risk<br />
assessment in various industries.<br />
The latter article also introduced a<br />
series of logical processes for determining<br />
and then eliminating or mitigating<br />
risks of harm arising from<br />
hazards.<br />
This article is on the discussion of<br />
implementing an independent safetyassessment<br />
process for modern<br />
transportation systems in the context<br />
of providing assurance of integrity of<br />
system safety. A similar discussion<br />
was brought up by Norman B. Martin<br />
in his article “Performance-Based<br />
Safety Code Seeks to Enhance New<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Technology” (EW, January<br />
2010). This stated that the new<br />
performance-based code (PBC) for<br />
elevators and escalators, under ASME<br />
A17.7/CSA B44.7, requires that all<br />
new elevator and escalator designs<br />
must be reviewed and analyzed by<br />
an independent accredited elevator<br />
escalator certifying organization to<br />
show compliance with the global essential<br />
safety requirements in the PBC.<br />
Purpose<br />
This article describes the process<br />
of an independent safety assessment<br />
(ISA) for modern railway transitsystem<br />
projects. It also discusses the<br />
key elements pertinent to ISA and<br />
the relationships of ISA with the<br />
organization’s safety-management<br />
system through all the stages of the<br />
project.<br />
Overview<br />
In view of the complexity of the<br />
modern railway transit system, in<br />
particular where sophisticated technologies<br />
are being used, safety has<br />
always been the top priority. Most<br />
approval authorities have now accepted<br />
that there should be some<br />
forms of justification by an external<br />
organization to give independent<br />
assurance that the railway transit<br />
system is designed and constructed<br />
to comply with the relevant safetycode<br />
requirements on public safety.<br />
The concept of ISA for a railway<br />
transit system has been broadly<br />
established in many European countries.<br />
Railway standards such as EN<br />
50126, EN 50128 and EN 50129 have<br />
been developed and adopted by<br />
these countries since the late 1980s.<br />
The fundamental principle of these<br />
European standards is to define the<br />
process that will enable the implementation<br />
of a consistent approach<br />
to safety management throughout<br />
the railway system life cycle. The<br />
important element in this process is<br />
specifically emphasized in the ISA in<br />
various project stages.<br />
In the U.K., the Health and Safety<br />
Executive, which oversees the Health<br />
and Safety at Work Act, is the safety<br />
regulator for the whole railway network.<br />
The executive has made it<br />
so that all railway developers’ safetycritical<br />
activities be reviewed and<br />
audited by an independent professional<br />
not involved in the safety<br />
activities concerned. ISA is the colloquial<br />
term of such a review.<br />
Since 1996, the Singapore Land<br />
Transport Authority (LTA) has introduced<br />
Continued
Public Safety Continued<br />
a structured and independent project safety review (PSR)<br />
process for all major railway transit and road projects.<br />
The adoption of the PSR is to ensure that the transit/road<br />
system in Singapore is designed and constructed to<br />
achieve a high level of safety.<br />
Principle of the Independent Safety Assessment<br />
As noted above, the most modern approach to safety is<br />
through the ISA concept. Basically, this is focused on the<br />
requirements of legislation concerned with health and<br />
safety. We can perhaps agree that it is not possible that the<br />
developer could install a modern transit system without a<br />
well-defined safety-management process. An assessment<br />
of the installation comprises many critical components<br />
that are largely concerned with users’ safety. Thus, the<br />
ISA adoption becomes one of the key elements in the<br />
safety-management process. This may be the best practice<br />
by which to demonstrate that the installation is safe.<br />
In considering the minimum level of safety-assessment<br />
independence, most codes require the safety assessor<br />
involved in any overall safety life-cycle activity, including<br />
management activities, to have no conflict of interest in<br />
the development of the system.<br />
The independent safety assessor who undertakes this<br />
type of work should include an independent review of the<br />
safety management processes being adopted and implemented<br />
in the production of the safety justification and an<br />
independent review of all identified hazards associated<br />
with the system. The reviews ensure that all risks in the<br />
system have been identified and are being managed<br />
properly. They also provide all the safety documentation –<br />
for example, in a safety case, to determine whether the<br />
installation complies with the legislative requirements and<br />
to acquire confidence to the owner and approval authority<br />
that the installation fulfils the specified safety criteria.<br />
Safety Management Process<br />
A safety management process provides guidelines for<br />
safety assessment on the design, construction, test and<br />
commissioning phases of transit-system development. It<br />
provides confirmation that all safety-critical subsystems<br />
have been designed using the safety principles as defined<br />
in the relevant common standards. This confirmation<br />
shall be established by submitting evidence that an independent<br />
safety review has been conducted to establish<br />
conformance to the safety principles. The independent<br />
review may be performed either by an outside certifying<br />
body or an independent reviewer within a different business<br />
center of the developer’s organization in line with<br />
international standards such as IEC 61508 Functional<br />
Safety of Electrical/Electronic/Programmable Electronic<br />
Safety-Related Systems or EN 50128 and EN 50129 for railway<br />
applications.<br />
In Singapore, LTA has adopted the PSR process to<br />
ensure that transit-system developers have adequate<br />
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commitments and resources to manage effectively manage<br />
safety. The fundamental element of the PSR is the<br />
safety submissions, through which the developer shall be<br />
required to demonstrate “proof of safety” at each phase of<br />
the project. The proof that hazards associated with the<br />
system are properly mitigated and closed is based on<br />
evidence gathered from tests, inspections and validation.<br />
All safety submissions are subject to a review process and<br />
must be formally endorsed/accepted by LTA. A typical<br />
safety-management process is shown in Figure 1.<br />
Figure 1: A safety management process<br />
Safety Audit<br />
It is essential that the safety-management system<br />
itself is regularly and rigorously audited. This is the purpose<br />
of a quality-assurance system in accordance with<br />
the international quality standard ISO 9001 or its national<br />
equivalent.<br />
Auditing is an ongoing process to ensure that the<br />
safety-management system and procedures are appropriate<br />
and sufficient. As can be seen from Figure 1, in<br />
some circumstances, the ISA is performed concurrently<br />
with the quality audit through all the stages of the project<br />
to ensure completeness and a high quality of safety<br />
management.
Discussion<br />
We have mainly discussed the key elements pertinent<br />
to ISA and its relationship with the safety-management<br />
system process in the transit industry. We now need to<br />
discuss what requirements have been in place in the<br />
elevator/escalator industry, since it is somewhat different<br />
in comparison with the railway transit industry. Usually, it<br />
has been quite clear in most countries’ statutory requirements<br />
for elevator/escalator installations to require an<br />
independent individual or QEI to conduct the safety<br />
inspection prior to the installation entering service. The<br />
inspection will determine whether the elevator/escalator<br />
installation complies with the applicable statutory safety<br />
requirements. However, since there is no unique inspecting<br />
standard for the independent individual to follow, the<br />
method used by the individual might be based on his or<br />
her practice, knowledge and experience. Hence, we can<br />
see that the end result of the inspection would be different<br />
between each individual.<br />
As noted above, we must examine the context of justification<br />
made by the individual and how satisfied he or<br />
she is that the overall elevator/escalator installation is<br />
safe. Obviously, from the individual’s viewpoint, if the<br />
installation is in compliance with the prescribed statutory<br />
requirements together with the required evidence (such<br />
as component-type test reports, etc.), the installation is<br />
likely to be accepted as safe to use. However, if we look<br />
from the prescriptive of the risk-assessment approach,<br />
we realize that such justification should not be relied on<br />
the purely physical inspection. Some safety requirements,<br />
particularly those applied to components that are related<br />
to elevator/escalator’s operating safety (for example, cardoor<br />
interlocks, safety gears, overspeed governors, etc.)<br />
may require a safety-management process to manage the<br />
requirements through the elevator/escalator production<br />
and installation life cycle.<br />
In this circumstance, it is essential that the developer<br />
be assured that the elevator/escalator production has<br />
been conducted and that an independent safety review and<br />
audit at each phase has been performed in a systematic,<br />
orderly and documented manner. The developer should<br />
also know that the testing and commissioning have<br />
proven that the installation is safe. It is suggested that steps<br />
as adopted in the safety management process (Figure 1)<br />
can be referenced as a model for the safety integrity of a<br />
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Pitch for Entry into the <strong>India</strong>n <strong>Elevator</strong> Industry<br />
by Jayashri Murali and S.C. Sharada<br />
Jayashri Murali and S.C.<br />
Sharada are co-founders<br />
of Lex Valorem <strong>India</strong> Pvt.<br />
Ltd., a corporate consulting<br />
company that provides<br />
business advisory and legal<br />
services to <strong>India</strong>n and foreign<br />
entities across multiple<br />
sectors during their various<br />
growth stages. Some of their<br />
expertise and focus lies in<br />
“<strong>India</strong> Entry Services.”<br />
Murali may be contacted<br />
at e-mail: jayashri_m@<br />
airtelmail.in, and Sharada<br />
may be contacted at e-mail:<br />
sharada.sc@lexvalorem<br />
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The government of <strong>India</strong> has liberalized<br />
investment opportunities by<br />
foreign entities wherever situated.<br />
Given the globalized and the liberalized<br />
scenario, <strong>India</strong> is providing oppor -<br />
tunities for business collaborations,<br />
technology transfers, joint ventures<br />
and other such commercial ventures<br />
in the country across varying sectors.<br />
During the peak of the global recession,<br />
<strong>India</strong> provided the business<br />
opportunity and stability to various<br />
multinational companies to lessen the<br />
impact of the recession and overcome<br />
it without much adverse impact on<br />
their business ventures in <strong>India</strong>. It<br />
is no wonder, then, that <strong>India</strong> is elevated<br />
as a nation “exporting hope”!<br />
Infrastructure Sector in <strong>India</strong><br />
<strong>India</strong>’s low spending on such infrastructure<br />
as power, construction,<br />
transportation, telecommunications<br />
and real estate, at US$31 billion (6%)<br />
of its gross domestic product (GDP)<br />
in 2002, had prevented <strong>India</strong> from<br />
sustaining higher growth rates. This<br />
has prompted the government to partially<br />
open infrastructure to the private<br />
sector, allowing foreign investment,<br />
which has helped in a sustained<br />
growth rate of close to 9% in recent<br />
years. The government’s next five-year<br />
plan, starting in 2013, looks set to include<br />
US$1 trillion for infrastructure<br />
development, with around half of this<br />
likely to come from private funds.<br />
Economists predict that by 2020,<br />
Year % of GDP<br />
2008 5.98<br />
2009 6.53<br />
2010 7.25<br />
2011 8.19<br />
2012 9.34<br />
Table 1: Investment as a percentage of GDP in<br />
infrastructure in <strong>India</strong><br />
<strong>India</strong> will be among the leading<br />
economies of the world. Tables 1-2<br />
and Figures 1-2 give a bird’s-eye view<br />
of infrastructure growth.<br />
It is evident from these tables and<br />
figures that investment in the infrastructure<br />
sector is growing steadily,<br />
both in absolute terms, as well as a<br />
factor of <strong>India</strong>’s GDP. With high-rise<br />
buildings dotting the skylines all<br />
over – be it residential apartments or<br />
commercial complexes – malls and<br />
airports in major cities, modernized<br />
hospitals and educational institutions,<br />
in addition to talk of state-of-the-art<br />
manufacturing units and service<br />
companies coming up rapidly, the<br />
need for elevators conforming to<br />
international standards of quality,<br />
design and safety is increasing in<br />
<strong>India</strong>. This calls for both techno -<br />
logical and financial collaboration<br />
with foreign entities by players in the<br />
<strong>India</strong>n elevator industry.<br />
This article attempts to articulate, in<br />
simple terms, the various <strong>India</strong> entry<br />
routes available to foreign entities<br />
planning to commence business operations<br />
in <strong>India</strong>.<br />
Regulatory Environment<br />
Investment in <strong>India</strong> by foreign entities<br />
is governed by the provisions of<br />
the 1999 Foreign Exchange Management<br />
Act (FEMA) and the rules and<br />
the regulations formulated by the<br />
Apex Bank and Reserve Bank of<br />
Year Amount (billions of US$;<br />
US$1 = INR44)<br />
2008 67.57<br />
2009 80.39<br />
2010 97.32<br />
2011 119.78<br />
2012 148.98<br />
Table 2: Investment in infrastructure
Figure 1: Chart showing the investment based on GDP<br />
<strong>India</strong> (RBI) from time to time. Business opportunities and<br />
the establishment of commercial enterprises in <strong>India</strong> can<br />
either be a standalone enterprise of foreign entities or in<br />
association with resident <strong>India</strong>ns/resident <strong>India</strong>n corporate<br />
entities (joint ventures).<br />
Liaison/Branch Office<br />
Under the provisions of FEMA, foreign entities are also<br />
provided an opportunity to test the waters of <strong>India</strong> by<br />
establishing a place of business in <strong>India</strong> either by setting<br />
up a liaison, representative, project or branch office. A<br />
liaison or branch office can be established with prior<br />
approval of the RBI and as a first step to establish business<br />
in <strong>India</strong>. By initially establishing a liaison or branch office,<br />
the foreign entity is enabled to gauge the feasibility of<br />
establishing a commercial enterprise in <strong>India</strong>, study the<br />
business atmosphere of the country, establish contacts<br />
for business opportunities, scout for business partners,<br />
etc. If the foreign entity is not convinced about the business<br />
opportunity/feasibility of the proposal to enter <strong>India</strong>,<br />
exit is simple, as it only entails closing the liaison/branch<br />
office with the required compliances.<br />
Project Office<br />
A project office is specific to a project and, again, subject<br />
to the approval of the RBI. This is possible only on award<br />
of a project in favor of the foreign entity and, therefore,<br />
implies that there is no testing of waters. That the project<br />
office is specific to a project also means that it has to<br />
cease to be operative upon completion of the project.<br />
Wholly Owned Subsidiary Company<br />
Foreign entities that propose to set up their own establishment<br />
in <strong>India</strong> may do so via the wholly owned subsidiary<br />
route. With no prior government approval required<br />
for such captive <strong>India</strong>n units (except for certain investment<br />
caps), foreign entities could leverage the low-cost<br />
skilled labor and qualified pool of technical manpower<br />
available in <strong>India</strong> to set up manufacturing centers with<br />
dedicated product lines, or design and engineering centers<br />
to support their global business.<br />
Amount (billions of US$; US$1 = INR44)<br />
Figure 2: A chart of the investment in infrastructure<br />
Association with <strong>India</strong>n Entities<br />
Another option available to foreign entities to establish<br />
their business in <strong>India</strong> is through association with <strong>India</strong>n<br />
corporate entities, which are familiar with the <strong>India</strong>n<br />
market, existing technology and prevailing business and<br />
regulatory conditions in the country. In view of the<br />
knowledge of such entities of <strong>India</strong>, this is sometimes the<br />
preferred option of most foreign entities. Association with<br />
<strong>India</strong>n entities can be either in the form of joint ventures,<br />
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agreements and other such commercial/business ventures.<br />
Acquiring an existing <strong>India</strong>n company or partnering with<br />
an <strong>India</strong>n commercial entity aids the foreign entity in<br />
having a good representative in <strong>India</strong> to establish its business<br />
activities for the benefit of all the parties concerned.<br />
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)<br />
The FDI policy permits investment in <strong>India</strong> in almost all<br />
sectors under the automatic route, which means no prior<br />
approval of the government of <strong>India</strong> or any statutory<br />
authority is required. However, both under the provisions of<br />
FEMA and regulations of the RBI, investment by foreign<br />
entities in corporate entities of <strong>India</strong> is subject to sectoral<br />
caps ranging from 24% to 100% and is industry relevant.<br />
Post liberalization in 1991, most sectors have gradually<br />
opened up to FDI and 100% foreign investment permitted<br />
without any prior approval; i.e., under the automatic route.<br />
Royalties<br />
Although the provisions of FEMA permit establishment<br />
of business in any of the forms above, payment of royalties<br />
for technology transfers, collaboration fees, consultation<br />
fees, etc. are subject to the rules and regulations of the<br />
RBI as revised/notified from time to time. All outgoing<br />
royalties from <strong>India</strong> (in whatever form) are also subject<br />
to further taxation laws of <strong>India</strong> and the country of the<br />
foreign entity.<br />
Repatriation of Profits<br />
Repatriation of all profits earned in <strong>India</strong> through business<br />
activities is also permitted by the government of<br />
<strong>India</strong> for the benefit of the foreign entities establishing<br />
their business activities (subject to withholding and other<br />
taxes, as applicable).<br />
Advantage of <strong>India</strong><br />
Given the myriad opportunities provided and value<br />
proposition offered by <strong>India</strong> (especially in the form of<br />
technically qualified personnel, cheap labor, liberalized<br />
regulations, an expanding market, a robust banking sector,<br />
a mature business scenario and the like), the <strong>India</strong>n<br />
market cannot be ignored by any foreign entity planning<br />
diversification, expansion and other means of improvement<br />
of its business activities.<br />
Professional Advice<br />
Although the provisions of FEMA and the rules and<br />
regulations are comprehensive, the assistance of a wellestablished<br />
professional in the field is essential prior to<br />
proceeding with the implementation of establishing any<br />
commercial/business enterprise in <strong>India</strong>. The laws, rules<br />
and regulations relating to FDI are dynamic and undergo<br />
constant revisions and amendments. Bearing this in<br />
mind, it is advisable to seek the assistance of a wellestablished<br />
professional in the field even prior to commencement<br />
of negotiations with the <strong>India</strong>n counterpart,<br />
or even in the event of implementing the proposal to<br />
enter <strong>India</strong> on a standalone basis. �
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Project Spotlight<br />
ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> Provides Equipment for T3<br />
by Sudhir Hingorani<br />
Delhi is currently undergoing a major infrastructure<br />
facelift in anticipation of the upcoming Commonwealth<br />
Games, scheduled to be held in the first week of October.<br />
One of the major infrastructure projects initiated was<br />
the building of a new airport terminal, not only to meet<br />
the requirements of incoming traffic during the Commonwealth<br />
Games, but also to meet the growing demands of<br />
the future air traffic growth into <strong>India</strong>. This project was<br />
slated to be completed in a record time of 37 months, in<br />
comparison to the 65 months it normally takes in other<br />
countries for similar projects. The basic idea was to<br />
showcase <strong>India</strong>’s capability of completing a project of this<br />
magnitude in the shortest possible time, thus breaking<br />
the myth that all infrastructure projects executed here<br />
take a long time to complete.<br />
On target, the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport<br />
Terminal 3 (T3) in New Delhi was inaugurated by Dr.<br />
Manmohan Singh, honorable prime minister of <strong>India</strong>, and<br />
Smt. Sonia Gandhi, chairperson of the United Progressive<br />
Alliance (UPA), on July 3.<br />
Project<br />
T3, the eighth-largest terminal in the world, contains<br />
some of the best facilities in the country. The features of<br />
this infrastructure project are:<br />
◆ Will handle 34 million passengers per annum from all<br />
over the world<br />
◆ 92 moving walkways, including one of the longest<br />
walkways installed in Asia (118 meters long)<br />
◆ 34 escalators<br />
◆ 71 elevators, including four units of 8000-kg capacity,<br />
four units of 4000 kg and seven units of 3200 kg<br />
◆ 78 passenger boarding bridges, the highest in the<br />
world in a single site<br />
◆ Terminal building spread over four kilometers<br />
◆ Longest runway in Asia (4.5 km)<br />
◆ 168 check-in counters<br />
◆ 49 immigration desks and 50 emigration desks<br />
◆ Cat III B runway landing system<br />
◆ 20,000 square meters of commercial space (this includes<br />
4,000 square meters of a walkthrough duty-free<br />
area; 800 square meters of luxury retail; 6,300 square<br />
meters of specialty retail; 5,500 square meters of mass<br />
and premium F&B, a games zone, a spa and a transit<br />
hotel; and a 600- square-meter “Dilli Bazaar” retailing<br />
handicrafts and souvenirs that are quintessentially<br />
“Dilli” at both the domestic and international departures.<br />
The IGI Airport is rated the “Best Improved Airport” in<br />
the Asia Pacific Region by the Airport Council International<br />
(ACI). The T3, as the centrepiece of its modernization<br />
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process, interprets its role as <strong>India</strong>’s window to the world.<br />
Comprising a nine-level terminal building, it features a<br />
full range of facilities, including 168 check-in counters,<br />
the longest runway in <strong>India</strong> and the category III B runway<br />
landing systems, an advanced five-level, in-line baggage<br />
screening system, the largest multilevel car parking facility<br />
in <strong>India</strong> (4,300 cars in a single building), a dedicated<br />
high-speed metro line as well as almost 20,000 square<br />
meters of commercial space, with numerous restaurants,<br />
cafes, bars, luxury retailers, hostels and other leisure and<br />
service facilities.<br />
In a word, T3 symbolizes the aspirations of a new and<br />
vibrant <strong>India</strong>. As an engine for growth, it opens immense<br />
possibilities for the future development of <strong>India</strong>.<br />
The new terminal is equipped with a total of 260 units<br />
of ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> equipment (77 elevators, 34<br />
escalators, 92 moving walks and 57 passenger boarding<br />
bridges). These units have been supplied and installed in<br />
T3 to provide efficient vertical and horizontal transportation<br />
services. This is one of the largest projects executed<br />
by ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> (<strong>India</strong>) in both its history and<br />
the history of ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> Asia Pacific.<br />
T3 Vertical Transportation<br />
ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> (<strong>India</strong>) installed 77 elevators<br />
with capacities ranging from 630 to 8000 kg and speeds<br />
ranging from 0.5 to 1.75 mps; and four scenic glass elevators,<br />
including the glass elevator shaft (designed with a<br />
one-hour fire rating and without any supports).<br />
The 8000-kg hydraulic elevator installed was equipped<br />
with power-operated vertical-lifting doors for the service<br />
areas. They will be used for heavy loading, including<br />
small trucks used for solid waste management. The 4000kg<br />
passenger elevators will cater to traffic from Airport<br />
Express Metro, 3200-kg goods elevators and be used for<br />
baggage handling, retail areas goods, hotel baggage, etc.<br />
Some of the features of these elevators are: energy<br />
savings, excellent ride quality, fire operation (all elevators<br />
designated as fire elevators), user friendliness with push<br />
buttons per EN code requirements including Braille markings,<br />
voice announcement systems, LCDs, gongs for arrival<br />
and departure of elevator from a particular floor, elevators<br />
with simplex, duplex and four-car group controls, loadweighing<br />
device, anti-nuisance feature, automatic rescue<br />
device in case of power failure, microprocessor-controlled<br />
(with latest CANbus technology) with variable-voltage,<br />
variable-frequency (VVVF), roller guide shoes for scenic<br />
elevators, VVVF-controlled, power-operated doors, adequate<br />
light and ventilation, two-way intercom system, a<br />
monitoring and control system. Continued
Project Spotlight Continued<br />
The feature common to all the units installed is the<br />
Interactive Conveying and Central Monitoring System,<br />
capable of controlling, monitoring and managing all the<br />
operational functions of elevators, escalators and moving<br />
walks. This system is among the first of its kind in <strong>India</strong>.<br />
The special features of this system include: display of digital<br />
car position and direction indicator, indicator showing<br />
operating status of car, e.g., in-service, out-of-service,<br />
maintenance, etc. The system also provides statistical<br />
analysis of hall-call response times, traffic patterns, fault<br />
conditions, mode of operations, activation of elevator car<br />
alarm, in-service, out-of-service, fireman switch status,<br />
power status, car position, service logs and security<br />
usage in graphical and tabular format. The system can<br />
log error type, car number, car position and major system<br />
status points whenever a fault or logged event occurs.<br />
Some of these interactive controls include security floor<br />
lockouts, registering car and hall calls, firefighters service,<br />
lobby recall, VIP service, up/down peak service, status of<br />
unit operations, safety switch tripped and its location,<br />
fault stop, running time, status of maintenance mode,<br />
status of variable-frequency drive’s health, etc.<br />
A total of 34 escalators were installed with rises ranging<br />
from 3 to 8 meters, having features of energy saving,<br />
central monitoring, reversibility, excellent ride quality,<br />
microprocessor controlled with VVVF, and various other<br />
features of safeties required as per EN 115.<br />
A total of 92 moving walks were installed, with average<br />
segment lengths of 50 meters. The longest being 118<br />
meters (this moving walkway had the distinction of being<br />
the longest walkway installed in Asia). Eight inclined<br />
moving walks are also installed at the arrival and departure<br />
levels to cater to people arriving by the Airport<br />
Express Metro.<br />
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These transportation systems represent ThyssenKrupp<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong>’s cutting-edge technology and installation capability<br />
exclusively delivered to meet the special and stringent<br />
requirements of this modern aviation hub. In T3,<br />
ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> has not only designed and installed<br />
the longest moving walk (118 m) in Asia, but has also<br />
installed 57 passenger boarding bridges. Furthermore,<br />
with a floor space of 6.4 million square feet, T3 covers an<br />
awe-inspiring size and scale. Thanks to ThyssenKrupp<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong>’s transportation systems, from heavy-duty passenger<br />
and freight elevators, to quality escalators, moving<br />
walks, and passenger boarding bridges, the efficient operation<br />
of the airport is ensured, and passengers are able to<br />
reach their respective destinations quickly and smoothly.<br />
Officials say that at no point would passengers have to<br />
walk more than 650 meters if they follow a straight path<br />
from the entry to their boarding gates thanks to equipments<br />
installed by ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong>.<br />
S.S. Hingorani, Dy. general manager of ThyssenKrupp<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> (<strong>India</strong>), noted:<br />
“Executing this project was not just a challenge of scale,<br />
but due to the unique style of ‘Design and Built’ and a<br />
continuously changing site environment, was a challenge<br />
on many levels. Getting an opportunity, to work on a<br />
project of this size and magnitude was [a] once [in] a lifetime<br />
opportunity and it was indeed a satisfying effort in<br />
concluding this herculean task.”<br />
Peter Walker, CEO, ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong> Asia Pacific,<br />
attended the official opening, which was indeed a proud<br />
moment for all employees of ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong>. Without<br />
doubt, their children in the near future will say, “My<br />
dad built that.”<br />
Sudhir Hingorani is deputy general manager of ThyssenKrupp <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
(<strong>India</strong>) Mumbai Zone. He has an electrical engineering background with more<br />
than 20 years of experience in the industry.
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Why would an elevator consultant<br />
invest time and money to attend a symposium<br />
on parking? At face value, the<br />
perplexity could be justified. Yet when<br />
you dive down into the underlying<br />
objective of elevator traffic analysis, the<br />
connection becomes obvious.<br />
Traditionally, elevators have been<br />
designed on the design criteria of waiting<br />
interval (INT) and handling capacity<br />
(HC). The criteria invariably has had the<br />
logic right, higher the class of the building,<br />
the better both these parameters<br />
(waiting interval and HC) should be.<br />
While this consideration could be justified<br />
for INT, can this be true of HC?<br />
Should not HC be linked to the possible<br />
peak arrival rates the access modes to<br />
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Events<br />
His Excellency Abdullah Rashid Al Otaiba inaugurates the symposium.<br />
Middle East<br />
Parking Symposium<br />
by TAK Mathews
The exhibition<br />
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the building could support? In a recent project in which<br />
your author was involved, the design criteria for HC was<br />
set at 15% by the U.S.-based client, which translated to<br />
about 1,000 people every 5 minutes. With the access<br />
mode being totally dependent on roads (not expressways<br />
or freeways), a look at the number of vehicles indicated<br />
that not more than 700 people could ever reach the building<br />
in 5 minutes. The parking facilities and security measures<br />
were such that a further delay appeared to have been<br />
built into the system. While a discussion on establishing the<br />
required HC is a topic for a paper on its own, this article will<br />
try to give a glimpse of the event.<br />
The Middle East Parking Symposium (MEPS) was held<br />
on October 10-12 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition<br />
Centre in Abu Dhabi. MEPS is organised by Dubai-based<br />
Island Media Consultancy, which is headed by Managing<br />
Director Davyd Farrell, who has 12 years of experience in<br />
the exhibition industry and eight years experience in the<br />
transportation sector. Previously event director for the<br />
Gulf Traffic event, held every two years in Dubai, Farrell<br />
saw the requirement for a parking show in the industry<br />
and, thus, MEPS was born.<br />
This third MEPS was triple the size of the inaugural<br />
show, with 43 exhibitors filling Hall 5 of the facility. The<br />
conference was held in association with the International<br />
Parking <strong>Institute</strong> (IPI) of North America and attracted some<br />
170 delegates from across the globe, including Europe,<br />
America, the Middle East and <strong>India</strong>. The conference ran<br />
three parallel streams: the IPI Main Technical Stream, the<br />
Technology Stream and Middle East Focus Stream.<br />
The IPI Stream focused on design and planning, finance<br />
and investment, equipment and technology, and enforcement<br />
and operations. The Technology Stream focused on<br />
payment systems, off-street parking equipment and operations,<br />
simulation modeling, ITS in parking, and automated<br />
parking. The Middle East Focus Stream looked at the<br />
aspects of parking projects in the Middle East with city<br />
updates and an Abu Dhabi focus.<br />
At the forefront of the event was the chief event sponsor,<br />
the Department of Transport, Abu Dhabi, which celebrated<br />
the first anniversary of the launch of its Mawaqif (Arabic<br />
for “parking”) project. The symposium was inaugurated<br />
by His Excellency Abdullah Rashid Al Otaiba, chairman,<br />
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Department of Transport, Abu Dhabi, amidst a crowd of<br />
exhibitors, delegates and media. His Excellency then took<br />
a tour of the exhibition hall, stopping at each stand to<br />
learn about the latest initiatives, products and services in<br />
the parking industry.<br />
Of particular note were the numerous automated parking<br />
systems on display at MEPS. The event had the largest<br />
gathering of APS providers in the world, including industry<br />
leaders Midein Electromechanical, Robotic Parking Systems,<br />
Boomerang Systems and <strong>India</strong>’s own Pari-Robotics.<br />
The IPI Main Technical Stream: Day One<br />
With three parallel streams in progress, your author chose<br />
to attend the IPI Main Technical Stream. The first paper<br />
for the day was by Denis Molner of Langan Engineering<br />
and Environmental Services. Molner stressed that in parking,<br />
“one size doesn’t fit all.” He took the audience through<br />
various car dimensions and recommended that the<br />
design of parking spaces should be made with the largest<br />
vehicle in mind. He also pointed out that the approach to<br />
queue has to be such that cars are removed from the<br />
street as soon as possible.<br />
The second paper was by Timothy Haahs, who started<br />
by quoting William Whyte: “The street is the river of life<br />
of the city.” He stressed that parking and traffic consultants<br />
also have a responsibility to reduce the requirement<br />
for parking. He applauded Abu Dhabi City Vision 2030,<br />
which had reducing reliance on motorized vehicles as a<br />
key objective. The vision had laid out pedestrians as the<br />
first priority, followed by transit users and cyclists and,<br />
lastly, motor vehicles. Haahs emphasized the need for<br />
planners and parking experts to work closely with the<br />
leaders of any city. The subsequent discussions also<br />
brought up a fact that cultural adaptation is key for the<br />
success of any plan.<br />
Armen Megerdoomian of International Parking Design<br />
addressed the complexities related to the parking for<br />
the retail customer. He pointed out that the parking experience<br />
is the first and the last impression for the retail<br />
customer. Megerdoomian recommended that with the<br />
wide choices available, extra effort should be taken to<br />
make the experience pleasant and hassle free. He<br />
stressed that wider parking spaces and aisles should be<br />
provided to facilitate maneuverability.
The last paper of the day was by Phil Baron of Walker<br />
Consulting. He took the audience through the financial<br />
aspects of public/private participation. He presented a<br />
number of case studies to illustrate that a financially<br />
viable alternative would be a function of numerous factors.<br />
As per Baron, at many airports, parking revenues are the<br />
second-highest source of revenue.<br />
The IPI Main Technical Stream: Day Two<br />
The first presentation of day two in the technical streams<br />
was by Thomas Wunk of Scheidt & Bachmann. He took the<br />
audience through various advanced Parking Technology<br />
Trends. He highlighted that with advancements, it would<br />
even be possible to reserve a parking slot akin to reserving<br />
a seat at theater. Wunk pointed out that<br />
automated payment processes reduces the<br />
idling time of cars by at least 40 seconds each,<br />
helping reduce carbon impact.<br />
Don Monahan of Walker Parking then did a<br />
great job of demystifying automated parking<br />
His Excellency<br />
reviews the<br />
exhibition<br />
structures. He presented cost figures covering construction,<br />
operating, soft and opportunity costs of both ramp<br />
and automated parking solutions. Considering all the<br />
costs, the automated parking systems (contrary to some<br />
opinion) appeared to be having cost advantages over a<br />
ramp parking solution. Monahan pointed out that the<br />
negatives of an automated parking system include higher<br />
construction, maintenance and replacement costs, as well<br />
as complicated design and firefighting requirements. On<br />
the other hand, an automated parking system has the<br />
advantages of lower footprint, half the volume requirement,<br />
a secured area requiring lesser security, lesser lighting<br />
and ventilation requirements, elimination of separate<br />
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pedestrian lifts and an overall better user experience. He<br />
also pointed out that an automated car-parking system<br />
could enable earning points for Leadership in Energy and<br />
Environmental Design certification on account of no<br />
vehicle emissions, limited lighting requirements, smaller<br />
footprints and lower volumes (high densities) and 100%<br />
covered parking space.<br />
The third paper was presented by Dave Hill of the<br />
Winnipeg Parking Authority, who gave an enforcer’s perspective.<br />
He was clear that parking regulation and compliance<br />
was the key to managing parking.<br />
The final paper was by Roamy Valera of Standard<br />
Parking Corp., who brought the grassroots experience of<br />
a parking enforcement officer. He suggested that the<br />
annual global revenue from parking was around US$25<br />
billion. Valera emphasized the public-relationship responsibility<br />
of parking enforcement officers and detailed how<br />
the private sector could be involved in enforcement.<br />
The other streams were well received, as was evident<br />
from the rapt attention of the audience. The exhibitors,<br />
too, had their hands fairly full with the extent of interest<br />
from the visitors.<br />
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Considering the horrendous parking problems in the<br />
metros of <strong>India</strong>, it is not surprising that in recent times,<br />
news on parking issues are getting highlighted. On the<br />
other hand, the proposed solutions lack practicality. The<br />
symposium definitely provoked your author’s thinking<br />
process and is an idea that needs to be brought to the<br />
congested metros of <strong>India</strong>.<br />
TAK Mathews has about two decades of experience in the verticaltransportation<br />
industry. His experience extends to all aspects of the industry,<br />
covering projects and construction, service and modernization, and planning<br />
and sales of elevators and escalators. In <strong>India</strong>, he has been responsible for the<br />
vertical-transportation requirements of many prestigious projects and has been<br />
directly involved with many modernization projects. As a qualified civil engineer,<br />
Mathews has conducted seminars and presentations on the subjects of vertical<br />
transportation, technological advancements in the field and traffic analysis.<br />
Mathews has been a representative on the ET25 panel constituted by the<br />
Bureau of <strong>India</strong>n Standards for rewriting the elevator and escalators codes and<br />
for the elevator section of the National Building Codes. He is also a member<br />
of the International Association of <strong>Elevator</strong> Engineers, National Association<br />
of <strong>Elevator</strong> Contractors, NAESA International and the <strong>India</strong>n <strong>Institute</strong> of<br />
Engineers. Mathews studied engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam, and<br />
received his MBA from the Birla <strong>Institute</strong> of Technology, Mesra and Executive<br />
Development at the IMD, Lausanne.
Market Spotlight<br />
100 Years of Korean Lift Industry<br />
by Euk Mahn Yang<br />
One hundred years have passed<br />
since the installation of the first lift in<br />
Korea, which was installed as a<br />
freight lift at Chosun Bank (now the<br />
Bank of Korea museum) during the<br />
Japanese occupation era in 1910. The<br />
first passenger lift was installed at<br />
Chosun Hotel in 1914. The lift industry<br />
in Korea has been expanding since<br />
these first installations. The number of<br />
lifts installed in Korea has increased<br />
from 70,000 to 410,000 since 1990,<br />
which translates into six-fold growth<br />
in 20 years. Every year, 25,000 to<br />
30,000 lifts are installed in Korea,<br />
which is the third largest volume in<br />
the world next to China and Japan.<br />
However, the domestic lift industry<br />
is now facing a hard time regardless<br />
of the large market size. Most of<br />
the industry is dominated by multinational<br />
lift companies, and the lift<br />
maintenance industry (an US$800million<br />
market) has lost its price<br />
competitiveness due to competition<br />
among the big companies and 800<br />
small- and medium-sized companies.<br />
Currently, the maintenance fee given<br />
to the maintenance company is half<br />
of the standard legal fee. Dumping<br />
deals have lead companies to a poor<br />
financial state, which is one of the<br />
main reasons for safety accidents.<br />
National Emergency Management<br />
reported 7,518 cases of 119 rescue calls<br />
related to lift safety accidents, such<br />
as lift lock ups, which involved 14,813<br />
people in 2009. A CEO from a mediumsized<br />
company mentioned that it is<br />
almost impossible to train professional<br />
engineers and buy new equipment.<br />
Multi-national companies like<br />
Hyundai <strong>Elevator</strong>, Otis, ThyssenKrupp,<br />
Mitsubishi Electric and Schindler represent<br />
more than 70% of the Korean<br />
lift industry. Even though the industry<br />
experienced rapid growth after the<br />
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1988 Olympics in Seoul, the industry<br />
neglected investing in international<br />
markets and technological infrastructure.<br />
As a result, companies relied on<br />
foreign companies and, therefore, the<br />
credibility of their products has fallen.<br />
The industry lost its competitiveness<br />
due to this technological lag.<br />
The depression in the construction<br />
industry over the past couple of years<br />
and the global financial crisis caused<br />
small and medium companies to suffer.<br />
The domestic market has already<br />
lost its competitiveness because of<br />
the dumping competition. Now, even<br />
cheaper products, which were more<br />
lucrative than other products, are losing<br />
their cost advantages over Chinese<br />
products. Cheap imports from southeast<br />
Asia are making competition even<br />
worse. The subcontract system between<br />
big and small companies in the market<br />
leads to subordination of technology.<br />
It is getting harder for small companies<br />
to develop their own products.<br />
According to the Korean <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Safety <strong>Institute</strong> (KESI), the government<br />
needs to encourage companies to<br />
invest in technology and expand business<br />
support to gain industry competitiveness.<br />
In the long run, the<br />
domestic lift industry must develop<br />
with mechanics, electrical and electronics<br />
altogether as a technology-<br />
intensive systematical industry. Manufacturing,<br />
installation, design and<br />
application also need to be developed<br />
in balance to guarantee safety and<br />
high quality products.<br />
Lucrative Korean Lift Market<br />
The Korean lift market has one of<br />
the highest potentials in the world.<br />
The tendency of Koreans to favor<br />
skyscrapers as commercial and residential<br />
buildings, and the acceptance<br />
of new technologies are accelerating<br />
the adoption of high-tech lifts<br />
in Korea. Hyundai <strong>Elevator</strong>, one of<br />
the domestic companies, has recently<br />
developed one of the world’s<br />
fastest lifts that operates at a speed<br />
of 1,080 mpm. Korea is the world’s<br />
third biggest market in installation<br />
and is growing at 25,000 per year.<br />
The market size is estimated to be<br />
around US$2.4 billion.<br />
Skyscrapers, such as the 150-floor<br />
Landmark Building and Lotte <strong>World</strong><br />
II are expected to begin their construction<br />
soon. Lift installation costs<br />
in these buildings are expected to be<br />
several million dollars. In addition,<br />
the lift industry is a stable industry<br />
and insensitive to economic situations.<br />
Lifts in buildings need to be replaced<br />
every 20 or 30 years, which<br />
creates constant demand. The maintenance<br />
fee is another stable income<br />
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that is generated through parts replacement and other<br />
maintenance activity. The lift maintenance market size is<br />
estimated around US$800 million every year. The domestic<br />
lift industry, which about grows 15% every year, is a<br />
high-value industry, with more than 20,000 parts in a lift,<br />
which is similar to the automotive industry in the number<br />
of parts used. As a result, the lift industry as a materials<br />
industry is an effective demand creator.<br />
Expo Creates Opportunities for Companies<br />
The 2010 Korea Lift Safety Expo on December 15-18<br />
will be the first expo that focuses on lifts in Korea. KESI<br />
has strategies in place to encourage companies to learn<br />
technological trends and promote competition to improve<br />
their competitiveness. KESI is planning its full support in<br />
creating new opportunities to create new networks among<br />
organizations and go abroad with these technologies<br />
through the expo. The expo will also allow companies to<br />
learn new information through seminars where experts<br />
from Korea and abroad will participate.<br />
KESI is putting forth efforts to lure more foreign companies.<br />
It contracted a comprehensive partnership with<br />
AMB, a Malaysian company, to attract more east Asia<br />
companies last June and also invited Chinese lift companies,<br />
which install more than 190,000 lifts yearly, to a lift<br />
expo session. Leading companies in the Chinese industry,<br />
like STEP and Torin Drive, have expressed their interest in<br />
participating in the session.<br />
As Chinese companies are expected to participate,<br />
foreign investments have gained momentum. Now, China<br />
with more than two-million lifts, which is five times larger<br />
than the Korean market, is a leader in the world market.<br />
Chinese companies are expanding their boundaries to<br />
KESI CEO Nam-deuk Kim stated, “2010 Korea Lift<br />
Safety Expo will try its best to achieve both the safety of<br />
people and promote the industry.” He emphasized the<br />
need to promote the stagnant industry in order to guarantee<br />
safety. In addition, Kim explained that this year<br />
would be a good chance to look back at the past 100<br />
years of lift history in Korea and look at the future. The<br />
lift expo in December is the Korean industry’s opportunity<br />
to start this, he added. Manufacturers, consulting<br />
firms, inspection agencies and universities are expected<br />
to participate for the four days of the expo. It is<br />
expected to attract more than 100 companies, including<br />
Hyundai <strong>Elevator</strong>, Otis, ThyssenKrupp, Mitsubishi<br />
Electric and Schindler, which will introduce a variety of<br />
new technologies.<br />
Kim also explained that this will create new opportunities<br />
for small companies, which only focused on<br />
domestic market and lacked information and networks.<br />
Comments from Safety <strong>Institute</strong> CEO Kim<br />
Asia and rest of the world using capital and technologies.<br />
Korean companies in China report that protection from the<br />
Chinese government plays a great role in Chinese companies’<br />
fast growth. One of the Korean executives working<br />
in China explained that, unlike the Korean government, the<br />
Chinese government purchases its own country’s products<br />
as a policy, and Chinese companies already have<br />
technology that empowers their compet itiveness, which<br />
was gained through partnership with foreign companies.<br />
To help domestic companies enter international markets,<br />
KESI is now delivering inspection skills and policies<br />
to Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan and other countries. The Korea<br />
University of Lifts, which opened in March, is expected to<br />
solve the long-held problem of manpower shortage in the<br />
industry.<br />
KESI and the Ministry of Public Administration and<br />
Security are planning a “job creating” rally with the Korea<br />
University of Lifts and companies to help recruit customized<br />
talents during the expo. This rally will also solve<br />
some of the youth unemployment problem caused by the<br />
global economic crisis. The recruiting program is designed<br />
for companies to recruit personnel in the manufacturing,<br />
designing and safety fields, and for the university to provide<br />
specialized education programs. At the same time,<br />
KESI is organizing a Korea Lift Safety Expo Committee,<br />
directed by Yong-gi Eom, to take charge of the expo. The<br />
committee is composed of five different teams – event<br />
planning, corporate team, cultural performance team,<br />
seminar team and publishing team.<br />
Euk Mahn Yang is an information service provi der for the Korea <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Safety <strong>Institute</strong>.<br />
He commented that the expo will also provide chances<br />
for lift users to learn the importance of knowing about<br />
the safety issues of lifts.<br />
Kim recognizes that even though Korea is one of the<br />
world’s leading lift industry markets, the domestic industry<br />
is not as influential over the global market as the<br />
statistics show. Small- and medium-sized companies<br />
struggle between depressed domestic market and<br />
cheap Asian products. Therefore, Kim emphasized that<br />
it is necessary to support companies to go to global<br />
market to ensure the safety of lift which has become a<br />
daily necessity.<br />
Kim added that the industry will face a severe situation<br />
if there are no appropriate measures taken. He<br />
promised that KESI will prepare a variety of measures<br />
to support the companies. He finally commented that in<br />
order to make the expo a global event, there must be<br />
government support and interest.<br />
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Technology<br />
Hydraulic <strong>Elevator</strong>s – Configuring the Power Unit<br />
by Parag Mehta<br />
Parag Mehta works for<br />
Blain Hydraulics GmbH<br />
(Germany) in R&D of control<br />
valves for hydraulic elevators.<br />
He is a mechanical<br />
engineer with more than a<br />
decade of experience in engi -<br />
neering design and project<br />
management. Mehta spe -<br />
cializes in computer-aided design. He has published<br />
various technical articles on hydraulic elevators<br />
and looks after the interests of Blain Hydraulics in<br />
the <strong>India</strong>n sub-continent.<br />
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Summary<br />
Hydraulic elevator manufacturers<br />
and, especially, companies specializing<br />
in building power units are often<br />
confronted with difficult choices of<br />
component selection. While important<br />
aspects like availability of components,<br />
price factor, durability and<br />
reliability of components occupy<br />
selectors most of the time, functional<br />
and operational aspects play an equally<br />
important role. This article attempts<br />
to provide guidelines in component<br />
selection and highlights some of the<br />
basic and optional characteristics that<br />
products used in power units and<br />
hydraulic elevators should have in<br />
order to deliver optimally. This article<br />
also tends to educate those who do<br />
not build hydraulic power units or<br />
elevators themselves, but source<br />
ready solutions, as to what they<br />
should be looking at from their suppliers<br />
and OEMs.<br />
Introduction<br />
A hydraulic elevator is powered<br />
by a power unit mostly found in the<br />
machine room or basement of the<br />
building or, sometimes, in the elevator<br />
shaft itself. Whichever form the<br />
unit may have and how different it<br />
may look, it would principally have a<br />
tank (oil reservoir), flow control<br />
valve, shutoff valve, pump, motor<br />
and safety valves in its most basic<br />
form (Figure 1).<br />
Depending upon the supplier,<br />
cylinders may or may not be part of<br />
the power unit. In this article, components<br />
used in the power unit will<br />
be analyzed individually on the basis<br />
of selection criteria, functions and<br />
requirements per EN 81-2 codes.<br />
After reading this, it should also be<br />
clear as to why similar products<br />
sometimes available from the industrial<br />
hydraulic segment should not be<br />
used.<br />
The Pump, the Heart<br />
of the Power Unit<br />
Like a human heart that pumps<br />
blood through our bodies, a hydraulic<br />
pump pumps oil through the<br />
hydraulic circuit. As we depend on<br />
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2 Pump 7 Baffle plate 12 Drain plug 17 Cooler return line<br />
3 Silencer 8 Heater 13 Rubber dampers 18 Electric box<br />
4 Valve 9 Breather cap 14 Rubber feet 19 Lifting hook<br />
5 Diffuser 10 Level indicator 15 Gaskets 20 Ball valve<br />
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our heart, so relies the hydraulic elevator on its pump.<br />
A hydraulic pump converts mechanical energy into<br />
hydraulic energy. When a hydraulic pump is operated, its<br />
action creates a partial vacuum at the inlet, while enabling<br />
the fluid (oil) to enter the pump. The pump traps<br />
this fluid within its cavities, and transports it through and<br />
forces it into the hydraulic system, thereby moving the oil<br />
and generating flow. Pumps do not generate pressure;<br />
pressure is generated by the resistance to the flow in the<br />
hydraulic circuit.<br />
A submersible screw pump is the most widely used<br />
and best choice for an elevator power unit, since the axial<br />
and radial forces on the rotors are hydraulically balanced<br />
and there is no metal-to-metal contact between the rotor<br />
and the idlers. Screw pumps (Figure 2) are known to<br />
produce low mechanical vibration, pulsation-free flow<br />
and quiet operation even at high speeds. Gear pumps are<br />
mostly used for machine and goods-elevating power<br />
units with flow rates less than 30 liters per minute (lpm)<br />
and where pump noise is not of prime interest. As flow<br />
rate gets higher, gear pumps become costly and noisier,<br />
and forfeit their place to screw pumps for passenger and<br />
residential elevator applications. A direct comparison<br />
between gear and screw pumps is given in Table 1.<br />
It should be noted that the pump output varies with<br />
pressure. It’s important to check the pump output at peak<br />
pressure (maximum loading of the elevator car), as, for<br />
example, a screw pump said to offer 75 lpm would give<br />
80 lpm at 10 bar and 68 lpm at 80 bar. The overall efficiency<br />
of the pump can be calculated using the following<br />
equation:<br />
P . Q<br />
Overall efficiency (η p ) = ----------- (Equation 1)<br />
600 .W<br />
where P = pressure (bar), Q = flow (lpm) and W = input<br />
power (kW)<br />
The Valve, the Brain of the Power Unit<br />
Our brain commands our body and instructs our body<br />
parts to act. Similarly, a flow control valve in a hydraulic<br />
elevator power unit plays an important role in regulating<br />
the flow of oil to and from the cylinder moving the cabin<br />
up and down. As hydraulic elevator power units use<br />
continuous-duty pumps that deliver a fixed output per<br />
minute, a control valve to control the flow of oil is necessary;<br />
this allows a slow start, gentle acceleration into full<br />
Figure 2: Screw pump<br />
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speed, traveling in full speed, decelerating into leveling<br />
speed and smoothly stopping the elevator at the floor<br />
level. In the absence of a control valve, the elevator cabin<br />
would shoot like a rocket upon starting the pump motor<br />
and stop with a sudden jerk that could feel like an earthquake<br />
inside the cabin.<br />
A flow control valve regulates the flow of oil by letting<br />
the excess oil flow back to the tank during the bypass,<br />
acceleration, deceleration and leveling stages, allowing<br />
the pressure to gently build up and gradually fall, giving<br />
passengers a smoother ride experience. A control valve<br />
used in a hydraulic elevator should be in a position to:<br />
◆ Control the flow of the oil to and from the cylinder in<br />
both the up and down directions<br />
◆ Have a means to identify shaft switching (generally<br />
achieved by using solenoid valves)<br />
◆ Have a pressure relief and check valve*<br />
◆ Have a manual lowering function to bring the elevator<br />
down in an emergency*<br />
◆ Have a manometer to monitor pressure and an inspection<br />
port for periodic testing by inspectors*<br />
◆ Offer the possibility to adjust the travel quality by controlling<br />
the leveling and stopping speeds in either<br />
direction for smoother rides<br />
◆ Prevent the elevator from overspeeding in the down<br />
direction*<br />
◆ Include a safety valve to prevent a slack-rope situation<br />
in roped hydraulic systems*<br />
(* = Mandatory per EN 81-2 safety directives)<br />
A quality product would offer many other functions/<br />
possibilities in addition to these, such as:<br />
◆ Built-in damping<br />
◆ The possibility to connect/mount accessories like<br />
additional check valves and down valves<br />
◆ Automatic emergency lowering in case of power failure<br />
or system malfunction<br />
Gear pump Submersible screw pump<br />
Loud Silent<br />
Smaller flow range Big flow range<br />
Pulsating output due<br />
to gear mechanism<br />
Non-pulsating output<br />
Can be used in Not the best choice for<br />
high pressure ranges high-pressure applications<br />
Cheaper More expensive<br />
Readily available in Available from selected<br />
the local market manufacturers worldwide<br />
Suitable for smaller-flow/ Suitable for wider flow to lowhigh-pressure<br />
systems to-moderate pressure ranges<br />
The volumetric efficiency Lower overall volumetric and<br />
is generally low to medium<br />
(approximately 85-93%).<br />
mechanical efficiencies<br />
Table 1: Gear and screw pump comparison
◆ The possibility to attach hand pumps (to raise the<br />
elevator in an emergency), shutoff valves, pressure<br />
switches, etc.<br />
How to Select a Flow Control Valve<br />
◆ Given a piston diameter, the speed of the elevator is<br />
derived from the flow of the pump; therefore, flow and<br />
pressure are two important factors that decide the type<br />
and the size of control valve that can be used. It is<br />
important to check if the control valve can handle the<br />
maximum flow with minimum pressure loss and the<br />
maximum system pressure the hydraulic elevator<br />
would have (Table 2).<br />
◆ Travel comfort decides the functions that a control<br />
valve should offer. Selecting two speed (leveling and<br />
full speed) valves for up and down directions makes<br />
sense for passenger elevators, whereas single-speed<br />
valves with built in damping are better for goods and<br />
car-parking lifts.<br />
◆ Pressure compensation is necessary in applications<br />
where the weight ratio of an unloaded to a loaded car<br />
exceeds two-and-a-half to three times. Car parking<br />
and cargo lifts are classic examples of such instal -<br />
lations, wherein the loaded cabin/platform is three to<br />
four times heavier than an unloaded one. A hydraulic<br />
(mechanical) valve adjusted for such a lift would not<br />
give the desired travel characteristics without using<br />
pressure compensation methods. Check if the control<br />
valve offers the option to compensate for wide pressure<br />
variations.<br />
◆ Contamination in hydraulic oil is often the root cause<br />
of system failure. Therefore, control valves should offer<br />
self-cleaning filters as an extra degree of protection,<br />
thereby extending the service and operational life of<br />
the valve components. Check if the control valve has<br />
built-in and self-cleaning filters for longer service life.<br />
◆ A slack rope valve is an important safety feature; a<br />
control valve without this safety should never be used<br />
in indirect (roping) installations. Check if the control<br />
valve offers a slack rope (safety) valve for indirect<br />
installations.<br />
◆ Check if the spare parts of the control valve are readily<br />
available at short notice for trouble-free servicing.<br />
◆ Check if the control valve and accessories selected are<br />
designed for the vertical-transportation industry and<br />
certified and tested as per safety codes and directives.<br />
The practice of using multiple modular valves available<br />
in the industrial hydraulic segment to carry out the<br />
individual functions mentioned previously results in very<br />
high pressure losses, poor travel performance, and dif -<br />
ficult adjustment and setup procedures. Remember, such<br />
valves could be good for industrial applications but not<br />
for the vertical-transportation industry. Moreover, they<br />
are not designed for handling passengers, nor for elevators.<br />
They lack the safety functions that a proper elevator<br />
flow control valve would offer.<br />
The Motor, the Power in the Power Unit<br />
In a hydraulic elevator system, the role of the motor is<br />
to provide the power to the pump, which (at a given number<br />
of revolutions per minute [rpm]) delivers the required<br />
discharge (lpm). A hydraulic power pack can have two<br />
types of motors: internal (submerged) or external. Irrespective<br />
of the type of the motor used, the power (kW)<br />
that it has to generate to drive the pump remains the<br />
same. Selecting a motor with a correct power rating is<br />
important, because an underrated motor would not<br />
deliver, stall and wear out, whereas an overrated motor<br />
Piston Speed of the elevator in mps Weight of the elevator in kg<br />
Ø mm 0.10 0.20 0.30 0.40 0.50 0.60 0.70 500 750 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500<br />
50 12 24 35 47 59 71 82 25 37 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225<br />
55 14 29 43 57 71 86 100 21 31 41 62 83 103 124 145 165 186<br />
60 17 34 51 68 85 102 119 17 26 35 52 69 87 104 121 139 156<br />
65 20 40 60 80 100 119 139 15 22 30 44 59 74 89 103 118 133<br />
70 23 46 69 92 115 139 162 13 19 25 38 51 64 76 89 102 115<br />
75 27 53 80 106 133 159 186 11 17 22 33 44 56 67 78 89 100<br />
80 30 60 90 121 151 181 211 10 15 20 29 39 49 59 68 78 88<br />
85 34 68 102 136 170 204 238 9 13 17 26 35 43 52 61 69 78<br />
90 38 76 115 153 191 229 267 8 12 15 23 31 39 46 54 62 69<br />
95 43 85 128 170 213 255 298 7 10 14 21 28 35 42 48 55 62<br />
100 47 94 141 188 236 283 330 6 9 12 19 25 31 37 44 50 56<br />
105 52 104 156 208 260 312 364 6 8 11 17 23 28 34 40 45 51<br />
110 57 114 171 228 285 342 399 5 8 10 15 21 26 31 36 41 46<br />
115 62 125 187 249 312 374 436 5 7 9 14 19 24 28 33 38 43<br />
120 68 136 204 271 339 407 475 4 7 9 13 17 22 26 30 35 39<br />
Flow (lpm), rounded to nearest decimal Pressure in bars, rounded to nearest decimal<br />
Table 2: Flow pressure table for hydraulic elevators with single cylinder and direct (without roping) installation<br />
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comes at an increase in cost, size and power consumption.<br />
Secondly, the common practice of oversizing (overrating)<br />
a motor results in less efficient motor operation.<br />
E.g., a motor operating at a 35% load is less efficient than<br />
a smaller motor matched to the same load; it also generates<br />
unnecessary heat.<br />
Quality motors designed for hydraulic power units can<br />
usually be overloaded up to 20% for a short period of time<br />
without being damaged. If we compare the cost of the<br />
motor against the running cost, it would be immediately<br />
clear that the cost of electricity to operate a motor over its<br />
entire lifespan is generally many times the cost of the<br />
motor itself. Even though standard motors operate efficiently,<br />
with typical efficiencies of 83-92%, energy-efficient<br />
motors perform significantly better. An efficiency gain<br />
from 92% to 94% results in a 25% reduction in losses.<br />
Hydraulic elevators do not use any power in the down<br />
direction, as they descend due to gravity. One should keep<br />
in mind that a motor used in a hydraulic power unit would<br />
not be in continuous operation. Also, the elevator is not<br />
always fully occupied, nor is the motor always fully loaded.<br />
In warm climates, external motors are usually preferred.<br />
A three-phase motor with silent operation is ideal<br />
for hydraulic-elevator installation. Depending on the<br />
requirement, a two- or four-pole motor can be selected.<br />
A two-pole motor with 3,000 rpm is a bit louder than a<br />
four-pole motor having 1,500 rpm. It is but obvious that a<br />
two-pole motor driving a pump would offer more oil discharge<br />
than a four-pole motor driving the same pump<br />
due to higher rpm. E.g., to compensate the discharge, a<br />
four-pole motor can be used to run a 150-lpm pump to<br />
effectively get 75 lpm, instead of running a two-pole<br />
motor with a 75-lpm pump.<br />
How to Select a Motor<br />
◆ Select the correct motor rpm and type (submersible or<br />
external).<br />
◆ Ascertain if the motor sizing is appropriate for the<br />
power unit and elevator load.<br />
◆ Check the motor efficiency at peak load.<br />
◆ Check up to how long and how much the motor can<br />
safely be overloaded.<br />
Motor Starting Methods for a Hydraulic <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
While it is true that a motor used for a hydraulic elevator<br />
should offer the necessary torque in order to deliver<br />
the power to the system, consideration should be taken<br />
as to how this is done. Often, starting jerks in a hydraulic<br />
elevator find their roots in inappropriate motor-starting<br />
techniques. The most common startup methods (Table 3)<br />
are:<br />
◆ Direct-on-line start (DOL)<br />
◆ Star-delta start<br />
◆ Soft-starter start<br />
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The Cylinder, the Arm of the Power Unit<br />
Push-Type Cylinders<br />
Push-type cylinders used in hydraulic elevators are<br />
mostly plunger type (where the piston and piston rod are<br />
the same), thus differing a little with their counterparts<br />
used in the industrial hydraulics segment. Single-acting<br />
push-type cylinders are the most commonly used cylinders<br />
for elevator applications. They are cheaper and easy<br />
to manufacture. Almost all steel-producing companies<br />
have seamless steel tubes available over a wide range of<br />
sizes. If quality raw material is available, little machining<br />
is required to make the tubes ready and useable. Alternatively,<br />
pull-type cylinders can also be seen in elevator installations.<br />
Basic facts to be noted when selecting push-type cylinders<br />
are:<br />
◆ Push-type cylinders are subjected to compressive loading.<br />
◆ The diameter of the piston is directly proportional to<br />
the length of the stroke, which means the longer the<br />
stroke of the elevator the larger the piston diameter<br />
has to be in order to prevent buckling.<br />
◆ Pressure in a hydraulic system is inversely proportional<br />
to the piston diameter, which means that with increasing<br />
diameter, pressure will be less (given constant<br />
load).<br />
◆ The bigger the piston, the larger the pump discharge<br />
required to attain a given speed. Hence, pump sizing<br />
has a direct relation to the cylinder size.<br />
◆ An elevator with a direct-acting cylinder can be either<br />
a hole or hole-less type. In the latter, the cylinder is<br />
above the ground, while in the former, installation the<br />
cylinder is buried in the ground, beneath the elevator<br />
car. Early designs usually had single-bottom construction<br />
and fairly limited corrosion protection. Newer<br />
hole-type cylinders have double bottoms and more advanced<br />
polymer sleeves, which offer better protection<br />
against corrosion and electrolysis problems. Continued<br />
DOL Star delta Soft starter<br />
Start Very high Low starting Voltage and current<br />
starting torque torque and current gradually increase to<br />
and current make the full starting<br />
torque available.<br />
Stop Sudden Sudden The pump is gradually<br />
made to stop minimizing<br />
sudden shocks and<br />
hammering effect<br />
in pipes.<br />
Cost Very cost<br />
effective<br />
Cost effective Expensive<br />
Usage Very small Small to mid-sized Ideal for all motor sizes<br />
motors motors<br />
Table 3: A comparison of motor starting methods
Technology Continued<br />
Pull-Type Cylinders<br />
Pull-type cylinders operate fundamentally differently<br />
and differ in design from push-type cylinders. Here, the<br />
cylinder is used with a counterweight system, and the<br />
hydraulic fluid pushes the piston in the cylinder down for<br />
the elevator to go up. Thus, the movement of the piston<br />
is in the opposite direction of that of push types. An<br />
elevator installation with a pull-type cylinder is always<br />
indirect (roping). Pull-type cylinders have a piston and a<br />
piston rod like a typical hydraulic cylinder. A solid rod is<br />
used as piston rod, which is subjected to tensile loading<br />
rather than compression, and hence is not subjected to<br />
buckling forces. Due to this fact, piston rods with smaller<br />
diameters can be used to save material. The counterweight<br />
offsets two-thirds of the empty car weight, and the whole<br />
concept results in reducing heat losses. This also reduces<br />
power consumption and makes the elevator installation<br />
eco friendly. Cylinder design is based on the calculation<br />
as to how much force the cylinder can produce to lift the<br />
load. The counterweight, in this case, adds to the force<br />
the cylinder is generating and is very productive. Some of<br />
the important criteria to consider when selecting the<br />
cylinder are the load, speed and mechanical stability.<br />
Cylinder manufacturers have selection charts for select -<br />
ing the cylinder size with respect to stroke and load of the<br />
elevator. Alternatively, cylinder sizing can be calculated.<br />
EN 81-2 very clearly defines how the calculation of rams,<br />
cylinders, rigid pipes and fittings should be calculated. From<br />
the mechanical strength aspect, the piston diameter has<br />
to be selected such that under full load and stroke, the<br />
piston should not be subjected to bending or buckling.<br />
The Pipe Rupture Valve,<br />
the Parachute of a Hydraulic <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
What a parachute does for an air diver, the pipe rupture<br />
valve does for a hydraulic elevator in the event of a hose<br />
pipe rupture. In the absence of a pipe rupture valve (and<br />
overspeed braking systems), one can expect a free fall of the<br />
cabin due to sudden pressure drop occurring when the hose<br />
pipe connecting the control valve and the cylinder bursts.<br />
The pipe rupture valve in hydraulic elevators is a lifesaving<br />
device and mandatory per EN 81-2 and the Bureau<br />
84<br />
Single-acting RAM cylinder<br />
(courtesy: Kleemann lifts)<br />
Cross-section of single-acting RAM<br />
cylinder (courtesy: Leistritz)<br />
Figure 3: Plunger-type cylinders<br />
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of <strong>India</strong>n Standards. A passenger hydraulic elevator would<br />
not be certified by inspection authorities in the absence of<br />
this valve. In the event of failure in the main cylinder line<br />
or where the down speed exceeds allowable limits, the<br />
rupture valve closes, bringing the car to a smooth stop. It<br />
should be noted that rupture-valve selection primarily<br />
depends on the flow rather than the port size. Valves with<br />
optional adjustment for lowering the elevator cabin to the<br />
floor level when it has been slowed are also worth considering,<br />
as they would safely bring the passengers down<br />
without having to wait for rescue.<br />
Things to consider when dealing with an elevator rupture<br />
valve:<br />
◆ Design and certification for the elevator industry:<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> safety norms clearly outline the design and<br />
functions of a pipe rupture valve. In the event of a pipe<br />
rupture, the pressure between the control valve and the<br />
rupture valve drops to zero, whereas on the other side,<br />
the pressure suddenly surges between the rupture valve<br />
and the cylinder. The peak pressure after the rupture<br />
valve (between the cylinder and the rupture valve) should<br />
be in all cases less than or equal to three-and-a-half times<br />
the static pressure. It is therefore important to select a<br />
product designed and certified for the elevator industry.<br />
There may be alternative cost-effective solutions available,<br />
but using them would only compromise passenger<br />
and elevator safety.<br />
◆ Mounting the valve: Reputed manufacturers offer a<br />
wide range of choices in connections and the way a<br />
rupture valve can be mounted on the cylinder. Cylinder<br />
manufacturers also usually offer different connection<br />
possibilities with their products; .e.g., some may provide<br />
a standard pipe-threading port, while some may<br />
offer one with National Pipe Thread threads or Society<br />
of Automotive Engineers flange connection possibilities.<br />
It is therefore crucial to check the coupling options<br />
before ordering.<br />
◆ Suitability of a valve for twin cylinders: <strong>Elevator</strong> installations<br />
in which two cylinders work in tandem require<br />
two rupture valves. However, these two safety valves<br />
have to be connected to each other so that they can<br />
also work in tandem. This is done by connecting the<br />
two pressure chambers of the individual valves with<br />
tubing to ensure simultaneous closing of both valves<br />
in the event of pipe rupture. Comprehensive tests have<br />
shown that this very simple system is effective, even<br />
when the valves are adjusted to different closing flows.<br />
The connection between the two rupture valves ensures<br />
that both valves close almost simultaneously. It is usually<br />
recommended that the tube diameter be at least as large<br />
as those listed in Table 4. �<br />
Rupture valve size 3/4-1" 1-1/2" 2” 2-1/2" 3"<br />
Tube ID (mm) 6 6 8 8 10<br />
Table 4: Recommended tube sizes for a two-rupture-valve connection
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TOUCH-ENABLED<br />
LANDING-CALL STATION<br />
TL Jones Asia Pacific has released<br />
the L1 Landing Call Station module,<br />
the latest addition to its Commander<br />
Suite of touch-enabled elevator control<br />
products. The module uses touchscreen<br />
technology and has a static<br />
display that can be customized with<br />
color, branding and arrow styles.<br />
Able to be either flush or surfacemounted,<br />
the product can be retrofitted<br />
into modernization projects.<br />
The L1 is constructed with toughened<br />
glass, and as such, is vandal,<br />
dust and liquid (including cleaningand<br />
sanitizing-material) resistant. Its<br />
glass construction is more repellent to<br />
germs than porous surfaces. With its<br />
dual illumination, elevator calls can<br />
be clearly confirmed to the user. Other<br />
products in the Commander Suite of<br />
touch-enabled elevator-control products<br />
include printed glass and LCD<br />
car-operating panels and LCD building-information<br />
centers.<br />
For more information, contact Chris<br />
Stoelhorst at TL Jones Asia Pacific<br />
Pte. Ltd., 192 Pandan Loop, #05-01<br />
Pantech Business Hub, Singapore<br />
128381; phone: (65) 6776-4111; fax:<br />
(65) 6774-7555; e-mail: chris.stoelhorst<br />
@tljones.com; or website: www.tljones<br />
.com.
SCHINDLER ID<br />
TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT<br />
The Schindler ID solution continuously<br />
calculates the optimum journey<br />
for every passenger using a bank of<br />
elevators. The result is<br />
shorter journey times,<br />
energy savings and fewer<br />
elevators (and shafts)<br />
needed for a given building<br />
population. Schindler<br />
ID also makes provision<br />
for special-needs passengers<br />
by holding an elevator’s<br />
doors open for<br />
longer or directing a passenger<br />
to an empty car.<br />
Schindler ID combines<br />
traffic management with<br />
user-recognition software, complementing<br />
a building’s security systems<br />
and allowing the management<br />
to determine which areas are accessible<br />
to whom. It is especially valuable<br />
in today’s high-rise structures,<br />
which often house apartments, offices,<br />
shops and leisure facilities.<br />
Advantages<br />
For architects, the technology delivers<br />
considerable design flexibility,<br />
because elevators do not need to be<br />
housed in the same lobby. Also,<br />
fewer elevators mean there is more<br />
space to rent.<br />
For the user, Schindler ID is intended<br />
to be simple. A building occupant<br />
arriving for work, for instance,<br />
can hold a preprogrammed card or<br />
device in front of a Schindler ID terminal,<br />
and the screen immediately<br />
directs the individual to the elevator<br />
taking the fastest route to his or her<br />
floor. The system controls access to<br />
all floors and can be adjusted at any<br />
time; for instance, during renovation<br />
work. When the elevator systems<br />
themselves need to be renewed, individual<br />
elevators can be taken out<br />
of service for a step-by-step modernization<br />
without compromising the<br />
overall performance of the system.<br />
Schindler ID delivers the same<br />
benefits in existing buildings, where<br />
it can be applied with minimum disruption<br />
to all elevator systems. It can<br />
easily be installed in the elevator<br />
machine room, alongside existing<br />
control mechanisms. Since it optimizes<br />
elevator usage, it instantly<br />
cuts the overall number of journeys<br />
for a given group of elevators, boosting<br />
a building’s elevating capacity<br />
and saving energy.<br />
GEFRAN PRODUCTS FOR<br />
THE LIFT INDUSTRY<br />
by Bhupesh Katakkar<br />
The Gefran Group has been in the<br />
industrial-automation sector for more<br />
than 30 years. The group offers a<br />
range of products to regulate the<br />
speed of electric motors and solutions<br />
for civil sectors. In particular,<br />
by specializing in the civil hoistingequipment<br />
sector and working with<br />
lift manufacturers on an international<br />
scale, it has contributed to the production<br />
of various types of systems.<br />
The modernization of existing systems,<br />
new systems (with and without<br />
a machine room), and applications<br />
with synchronous and asynchronous<br />
motors (with and without reducers),<br />
be handled with Gefran drives.<br />
The Platform of the Lift Inverter<br />
The ADL200 is a technological<br />
platform designed for driving gearless<br />
or geared synchronous and induction<br />
machines. It integrates the<br />
lift-inverter technology for maximum<br />
synergy with a range of installation<br />
requirements. In addition, it offers a<br />
cost-effective and immediate solution<br />
for lift control systems. Continued<br />
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Product Spotlight Continued<br />
The ADL100 is the entry-level range<br />
of the ADL technology platform, intended<br />
for traditional medium-speed<br />
systems and offering complete configuration<br />
for performance in terms of<br />
comfort. With a 32-bit microcontrol -<br />
ler platform and control algorithms,<br />
it also offers riding comfort and uses<br />
the drive as open loop sensorless.<br />
The ADL platform provides universal<br />
AC mains supply from 3 X 230 to 480<br />
VAC and a power range from 4 to<br />
90kW, offering solutions for different<br />
types of lift system configurations.<br />
The versatility of the ADL also<br />
offers the option to choose the drive<br />
from the standard configuration or<br />
with a custom setup. Configurations<br />
can be selected in the catalog through<br />
a range of options for encoder managements,<br />
the input/output (I/O) or<br />
the field bus interface with such protocols<br />
as DCP3, DCP4 and CAN.<br />
Features of <strong>Elevator</strong> Inverters<br />
◆ Power range: 4 to 160Kw<br />
◆ Speed control: <strong>Elevator</strong> Floor Control<br />
function: direct landing at the<br />
floor with automatic calculation of<br />
deceleration point<br />
◆ Position control: <strong>Elevator</strong> Positioning<br />
Control function: position regulator<br />
for automatic management<br />
of direct landing at the floor, automatic<br />
speed control and saving of<br />
floor distances (system auto tuning)<br />
◆ Lift sequence: Typical sequence of<br />
I/O signals, I/O management,<br />
braking, output contactor and<br />
door control<br />
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◆ Parameters in Linear Unit: Availability<br />
of different engineering units<br />
for the main movement parameters,<br />
rpm or mps for speed, mps 2 ,<br />
mps 3 for cabin acceleration.<br />
◆ Lift mechanical parameters: Mechanical<br />
system parameters such as<br />
pulley diameter and speed ratio<br />
for converting system units and<br />
weights, a system for calculating<br />
inertia and speed regulation for<br />
the desired response. Continued<br />
◆ Ramp Generation: Independent<br />
configuration of acceleration and<br />
deceleration ramp parameters<br />
and of the four jerk values for<br />
traveling comfort in the lift cabin;<br />
two independent S-shaped ramps,<br />
selectable via digital input with<br />
four independent jerk settings;<br />
dedicated deceleration ramp corresponding<br />
to the stop command.<br />
◆ Multiple speeds: There are eight<br />
internally settable speed reference<br />
values, with the option to overwrite<br />
at startup with additional values<br />
to ensure smooth starting<br />
◆ Pre-torque (load compensation):<br />
Initialization of the speed regulator<br />
by the weight sensor to prevent<br />
jerks or bumpy starting.<br />
◆ Overload: Overload capacity is in<br />
line with typical lift application<br />
load cycles.<br />
◆ Automatic fan control: The fan<br />
control logic activates the internal<br />
fans according to the temperature.<br />
◆ Emergency Situations: In emergency<br />
conditions, a 230V singlephase<br />
supply voltage can be used<br />
to return the cabin to the floor (by<br />
uninterruptible power supply or<br />
batteries with an EMS module).<br />
◆ Wizard function for commissioning:<br />
Wizard menu for system startup<br />
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ACCUMAX ENGINEERING<br />
COMPANY<br />
C-1/23 G.I.D.C ESTATE<br />
NARODA, AHMEDABAD<br />
GUJARAT-INDIA 382330<br />
Telephone: 0091-079-22813429<br />
Fax Number: 0091-079-2813429<br />
E-Mail: accumaxe@ad1.vsnl.net.in<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. R.S. Patel<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Manoj Patel<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: AC-1, AC-2<br />
and V3f geared lift machines, Electric Motors,<br />
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AFAG MESSEN UND<br />
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MESSEZENTRUM AUGSBURG<br />
AUGSBURG, BAVARIA 86159<br />
GERMANY<br />
Telephone: 0049 – 821 – 5 89 82 340<br />
Fax Number: 0049 – 821 – 5 89 82 349<br />
E-Mail: interlif@afag.de<br />
Web Site: www.interlift.de<br />
Marketing Contact: Winfried Forster<br />
Engineering Contact: Joachim Kalsdorf<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: interlift -<br />
international trade fair for <strong>Elevator</strong>s, components<br />
& accessories<br />
ASRAY/ASRAY SANAYI VE<br />
TICARET LTD. STI.<br />
P.O. BOX 107<br />
41400 GEBZE, KOCAELI, TURKEY<br />
Telephone: (90) 262-7511435<br />
Fax Number: (90) 262-7511439/7511765<br />
E-Mail: asray@asray.com<br />
Web Site: www.asray.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Mrs. Aysenur Aslan, Export<br />
Manager (aaslan@asray.com); Mrs. Safiye Cinge,<br />
Export Assistant (safiye@asray.com)<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Sefa Targit,<br />
Technical Manager<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Guide Rails<br />
AV CAM CORPORATION<br />
55-C, TRIBHUVAN<br />
INDUSTRIAL ESTATE,<br />
OPP. PASHUPATINATH TEMPLE,<br />
NEAR KATHWADA, GIDC, KATHWADA<br />
AHMEDABAD - 382430, GUJARAT<br />
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Telephone: 0091 79 65237438<br />
Fax Number: +91 79 22890596<br />
E-Mail: info@amcolifty.com<br />
Web Site: www.amcolifty.com<br />
Contact: Mr. G. Patel Vishnubhai<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Lift Duty<br />
Gear Box, Lift Guide Rails<br />
BHARAT BIJLEE LIMITED<br />
NO. 2 MIDC<br />
THANE-BELAPUR ROAD<br />
AIROLI NAVI MUMBAI 400708<br />
Telephone: 0091 22 2763 7200 / 7400<br />
Direct: 0091 22 2763 7284<br />
Fax Number: 0091 22 2763 7438<br />
E-Mail: greenstar@bharatbijlee.com<br />
Web Site: www.bharatbijlee.com<br />
Contact: M/s. R. Rajaraman / K.K.Y. Das<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Gearless<br />
Machines for <strong>Elevator</strong> Application, Electric Motors,<br />
Transformers, KEB Drives and Project.<br />
BLAIN HYDRAULICS GMBH<br />
PFAFFENSTRASSE 1<br />
HEILBRONN, BW 74078 GERMANY<br />
Telephone: +49-7131-2821-0<br />
Fax Number: +49-7131-485216<br />
E-Mail: info@blain.de<br />
Web Site: www.blain.de<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Parag Mehta Ext: 30<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Parag Mehta Ext: 30<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Manufacturers<br />
of <strong>Elevator</strong> control valves, Home lift valves, Servo<br />
control valves, Car-parking lift valves, Rupture<br />
valves, Ball valves, Pressure lock valves, Hand<br />
pumps, Tank heaters, RamLocs, Micro leveling<br />
drives, Hydraulic remote monitoring systems.<br />
BRUGG LIFTING<br />
1801 PARRISH DRIVE<br />
P.O. BOX 551<br />
ROME, GEORGIA 30162-0551<br />
Telephone: (706) 235-6315<br />
Toll Free Phone: 1-866-542-7844 (54BRUGG)<br />
Fax Number: (706) 235-1394 or (706) 235-6035<br />
E-Mail: elevatorrope@brugg.com<br />
Web Site: www.bruggnorthamerica.com;<br />
www.bruggrope.com<br />
Marketing Contact: President/General Manager:<br />
Kevin Heling, (706) 235-6315, ext 301,<br />
heling.kevin@brugg.com; Marketing Contact: Tom<br />
Richards/Richards Advertising (704) 987-7965;<br />
trichards@richardsad.com<br />
Engineering Contact: Sales/Field Engineering<br />
Contact: Rick Perry, VP Sales/Engineering,<br />
(570) 322-3210, South Williamsport, PA,<br />
perry.rick@brugg.com; Engineering/Quality<br />
Contact: Martin Rhiner, VP Engineering/Quality,<br />
(706) 235-6315 ext 302, rhiner.martin@brugg.com<br />
Sales Offices: Brugg Wire Rope, LLC, Rome GA<br />
(706) 235-6315; North America VP Sales and<br />
Field Engineering, South Williamsport, PA, Rick<br />
Perry, (570) 322-3210, perry.rick@brugg.com;<br />
Distributors/Stocking Locations - US: Houston,<br />
TX; Metro Wire Rope, 553 Lehigh Ave., Union, NJ<br />
07083, Phone: (908) 964-3690; Marcal Rope &<br />
Rigging, 1862 E. Broadway, Alton, IL 62002,<br />
Phone: (618) 462-0172 or 1-800-343-4971; Silver<br />
State Wire Rope & Rigging, 5380 S. Valley View,<br />
Suite A, Las Vegas, NV 89118, Phone: (702)<br />
597-2010; Carpenter Rigging, 222 Napoleon St.,<br />
San Francisco, CA 94124, Phone: (707) 562-<br />
9473; Brugg Wire Rope, LLC., 1801 Parrish Rd.,<br />
Phone: (toll free) (866) 542-7844, Fax: (706) 235-<br />
6035 - Canada: <strong>Elevator</strong> Components, 1237<br />
Kamato Rd., Mississauga, ON, Canada L4W<br />
2M2, Phone: (905) 624-6565; Hoist Wire Rope &<br />
Equipment Inc.,<br />
(a Northern Strands Co)., 5604-76th Ave., Edmonton,<br />
AB Canada T6B 0A6, Phone: (780) 485-9869<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Ropes; full line of the industry’s best selection of<br />
hoist, compensation, governor, door closing and<br />
ropes bearing electrical conductors. Offering<br />
superior quality steel, iron, sisal and mixed (poly)<br />
core ropes; featuring exclusive i-Line for easier<br />
installation; preformed ropes, rope lubricant and<br />
applicator, pulling grips, rope tension measuring<br />
device, reeve splicing, fiber tape, measuring gauges,<br />
wedge sockets, isolation assemblies and springs.<br />
CANNY ELEVATOR<br />
CO., LTD.<br />
88 LINHU ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ZONE<br />
215213 WUJIANG CITY, JIANGSU PROVINCE<br />
P.R. CHINA<br />
Telephone: +86-512-6329-0000 /<br />
+86-512-6329-7851<br />
Fax Number: +86-512-6329-9709 /<br />
+86-512-6329-3938<br />
E-Mail: export-canny@163.com /<br />
export@canny-elevator.com<br />
Web Site: www.canny-elevator.com<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: office and<br />
residential lifts, high-speed passenger lifts, bed<br />
lifts, panorama lifts, freight lifts, home lifts, MRL,<br />
hydraulic lifts and automobile lifts; slim escalators,<br />
heavy-duty escalators, out-door escalators, highrise<br />
escalators, horizontal and inclined autowalks,<br />
etc. Canny products have been exported to<br />
Russia, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Malta,<br />
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, UAE, Korea, Japan,<br />
Malaysia, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Africa, and<br />
South America and so on.
CHINA ELEVATOR ASSOCIATION<br />
(CEA CHINA)<br />
61 JINGUANG AVENUE<br />
LANGFANG HEBEI 065000<br />
PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA<br />
Telephone: (86) 316-2311426/2012957<br />
Fax Number: (86) 316-2311427<br />
E-Mail: zlx@cea-net.org<br />
Web Site: www.cea-net.org<br />
Contact: Zhang Lexiang<br />
President: Ren Tianxiao<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: CEA was<br />
formed in 1984 and has 500 members. The<br />
secretariat together with the <strong>Institute</strong> of Building<br />
Mechanization. CEA is one of the sponsors of<br />
China <strong>World</strong> <strong>Elevator</strong> & Escalator Expo and<br />
China <strong>Elevator</strong> Magazine.<br />
DSA ELECTRO<br />
CONTROLS<br />
PVT. LTD.<br />
A-20, CROSS ROAD-B, MIDC<br />
ANDHERI (EAST), MUMBAI 400 093<br />
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA<br />
Telephone: 91 22 6742 9700<br />
Fax Number: 91 22 6742 9714<br />
E-Mail: marketing@dsaquality.com<br />
Web Site: www.dsaquality.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Ashok Subhedar<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Controllers and allied products, Fabrication<br />
Services - CNC Fabrication, Water Jet Cutting<br />
Systems & Services.<br />
DÍNACELL ELECTRÓNICA, S.L.<br />
POLÍGONO INDUSTRÍAL “SANTA ANA”<br />
C/EL TORNO, 8<br />
28522 RÍVASÍVACÍAMADRÍD (MADRÍD)<br />
SPAÍN<br />
Telephone: +35 91-300-14-35<br />
Fax Number: +35 91-300-16-45<br />
Website: www.dinacell.com<br />
E-mail: dinacell@dinacell.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Frederick Apostoles Conde<br />
Engineering Contact: Enrique Garcia Rodriguez<br />
Products Manufactured:<br />
Load Weighing Device for <strong>Elevator</strong>s, Cab<br />
sensor, Cable sensor, Crosshead sensor,<br />
Hydraulic sensor, Motor bedframe sensor,<br />
Controllers, Display<br />
ELECON ENGG. CO. LTD.<br />
POST BOX #6, ANAND<br />
SOJITRA ROAD, VALLABH VIDYANAGAR<br />
388 120, GUJARAT<br />
Telephone: 0091 2692 236469, 236513<br />
Fax Number: +91 2692 236527, 236457<br />
E-Mail: VGSUBNIS@gear.elecon.com<br />
Web Site: www.elecon.com<br />
Contact: Mr. V.G. Subnis<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Manufacturer<br />
of Material Handling Equipment & all types of<br />
industrial gears - Helical, Worm, Couplings,<br />
Special Gears, <strong>Elevator</strong> Traction Machines,<br />
Wind Mill Gearbox and Wind Mill.<br />
ELEVATOR INDIA.COM<br />
B/602,SHIVAM APARTMENT<br />
C.H.S. LTD, C.S. ROAD NO: 5,<br />
ANAND NAGAR, DAHISAR (EAST),<br />
MUMBAI-400068<br />
MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA 400068 INDIA<br />
Telephone: 022-40149991, 09930308303,<br />
09322337066<br />
Fax Number: 022-28974573<br />
E-Mail: elevatorindia@yahoo.co.in;<br />
elevatorindia@gmail.com<br />
Web Site: www.elevatorindia.com<br />
Marketing Contact: same as above<br />
Sales Office: same as above<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: An elevator<br />
portal for end users and buyers. For elevator<br />
company we design, supply material, erect and<br />
give maintenance of traction and hydraulic lifts.<br />
Consultant and co-ordinator to elevator industry<br />
in <strong>India</strong>.<br />
ELMO SRL<br />
V.LE CERTOSA 8/B<br />
PAVIA ITALY 27100 ITALY<br />
Telephone: +39 0382 529564<br />
Fax Number: +39 0382 527041<br />
E-Mail: info@elmoitaly.com<br />
Web Site: www.elmoitaly.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Giovanni Crucitti<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Ivo Busi<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Submersible<br />
motors for hydraulic lift<br />
ETA MELCO ENGG.<br />
CO. PVT. LTD.<br />
CHENNAI CITI CENTRE,<br />
4TH FLOOR, No. 10&11, DR. RADHAKRISHNAN<br />
SALAI, MYLAPORE<br />
CHENNAI - 600 004<br />
Telephone: 044-2847 7370/71/72/73/75<br />
Fax Number: 044-2847 7374<br />
Web Site: www.etamelco.in<br />
Contact: Mr. H.N. Sadaqathullah, Director<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Mitsubishi <strong>Elevator</strong>s & Escalators<br />
ELEVATOR WORLD, INC.<br />
P.O. BOX 6507<br />
MOBILE, AL 36660 USA<br />
Telephone: (251) 479-4514<br />
Fax Number: (251) 479-7043<br />
E-Mail: sales@elevator-world.com<br />
Web Site: www.elevator-world.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Brad O’Guynn<br />
Sales Office(s): Mobile, Alabama USA;<br />
Bangalore, <strong>India</strong><br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: ELEVATOR<br />
WORLD magazine, ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong><br />
magazine (www.elevatorworldindia.com, <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
<strong>World</strong> Source© Directory, <strong>Elevator</strong> <strong>World</strong> Euro<br />
Source Directory and educational materials<br />
(www.elevatorbooks.com)<br />
ESQUIRE ENGINEERING CO.<br />
DIAMOND I. E., ESTATE NO. 2,<br />
UNIT NO. 3, KETKIPADA ROAD,<br />
OFF WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY NO. 8<br />
DAHISAR (EAST),<br />
MUMBAI – 400068, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 22 2848 1603<br />
Telefax: +91 22 2848 3220<br />
E-Mail: esquire23363@gmail.com<br />
Web Site: www.esquireelevatorparts.net<br />
Contact: Mr. Jayesh Patel<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Manufacturer<br />
Of Push Buttons, COP, LP, LCD Display,<br />
Dot Matrix Display, Hall Lanterns Etc.<br />
M/s. EXCELLA Electronics<br />
54, ANNAPURNA INDUSTRIAL<br />
ESTATE, TILAK ROAD,<br />
GHATKOPAR (E ),<br />
MUMBAI - 400077, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91-22-21029911<br />
Fax Number: +91-22-21029922<br />
E-Mail: sales@excellaelectronics.com<br />
Web Site: www.excellaelectronics.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Rajesh Mhaskar<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Door Sensor,<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Encoder, Magnetic Reed Switch, Door<br />
Operator Systems.<br />
EXPERT EQUIPMENTS<br />
PVT. LTD.<br />
6, PUNJANI INDUSTRIAL<br />
COMPLEX, KHOPAT<br />
THANE (WEST) - 400 601<br />
Telephone: 022 - 25474884 / 25474885 /<br />
25475153.<br />
Fax Number: 022 - 25474884 / 25474885 /<br />
25475153<br />
E-Mail: expertequip@rediffmail.com<br />
Web Site: www.expertequipments.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Arvind T. Menon,<br />
Tel. No. 09323145570<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. T.R.C. Menon,<br />
Managing Director, Tel: No. 09323000028<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Own<br />
manufacturing of Expert “LEVITATOR”<br />
FORMULA SYSTEMS LTD.<br />
TECHNOLOGY HOUSE,<br />
OAKFIELD ESTATE<br />
EYNSHAM, OXFORDSHIRE, 0X29 4AQ<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
Telephone: 44 (0) 1865-882442<br />
Fax Number: 44 (0) 1865-881647<br />
E-Mail: sales@formula-systems.com<br />
Web Site: www.formula-systems.com<br />
Marketing Contact: John Curzon<br />
Engineering Contact: Peter Collins<br />
Sales Offices: Please refer to the Formula<br />
Systems website for up-to-date sales office listings.<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Infrared light<br />
curtains for new and modernization applications<br />
including the unique SafeZone 3D. True, digitised<br />
speech annunciators.<br />
FUJI ELECTRIC INDIA<br />
PRIVATE LTD.<br />
409-410, MEADOWS, SAHAR PLAZA<br />
ANDHERI-KURLA RD.<br />
J.B. NAGAR, ANDHERI (E)<br />
MUMBAI – 400 059<br />
Telephone: +91 22 4010 4870 / 2820 6383<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 4010 4872<br />
E-Mail: info@fein.fujielectric.com<br />
Web Site: www.fujielectric.co.in<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: <strong>Elevator</strong> Drives<br />
GARAVENTA LIFT<br />
7505 134A STREET<br />
SURREY BC V3W 7B3<br />
CANADA<br />
Telephone: 604 594 0422<br />
Toll Free Phone: 1 800 663 6556<br />
Fax Number: 604 594 9915<br />
E-Mail: jlepa@garaventa.ca<br />
Web Site: www.garaventalift.com<br />
Contact: Jake Lepa, Ext. 203<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Platform lifts<br />
(incline and vertical) for wheelchair users and<br />
people with walking difficulties, residential and<br />
LULA (limited use, limited application) elevators,<br />
portable stair-lifts, evacuation chairs.<br />
Company Statement: Garaventa is committed to<br />
providing the best accessibility solutions for the<br />
application. We create an accessible world.<br />
GEFRAN INDIA PVT. LTD.<br />
(A 100% SUBSIDIARY OF GEFRAN S.p.A., ITALY)<br />
SURVEY NO. 182/1 KH, BHUKUM, PAUD ROAD<br />
TALUKA - MULSHI<br />
PUNE 411 042, MH, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 20 39394400<br />
Fax Number: +91 20 39394401<br />
E-Mail: bhupesh.katakkar@gefran.in<br />
Web Site: www.gefran.in<br />
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GMV S.P.A.<br />
VIA DON GNOCCHI, 10<br />
20016 PERO MILANO, ITALY<br />
Telephone: (39) 02-33930-1<br />
Fax Number: (39) 02-3390379<br />
E-Mail: info@gmv.it<br />
Web Site: www.gmv.it<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Berruto<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Fossati<br />
Sales Offices: Fax: Brazil ++55 413 3457855/<br />
Canada ++1 519 6245675/ China ++86 10<br />
68578709/ Czech Republic ++420 5 49211593/<br />
France ++33 450 640211/ Germany ++49 89<br />
9036191/ Greece ++30 210 2792914/ <strong>India</strong> ++91<br />
22 23080025/ Poland ++48 22 8589969/ Portugal<br />
++351 21 4453069/Spain ++34 902 345432/<br />
Sweden ++46 472 45699<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Components<br />
for hydraulic elevators: single stage jacks,<br />
telescopic jacks 2-3-4 stages, hydraulically and<br />
mechanically synchronized; hydraulic power units:<br />
balanced valves and electronic valves, electronic<br />
system, heat exchangers; side-acting car frames;<br />
pawl device; cars; car doors; landing doors;<br />
operators; passenger lifts; freight lifts; freight lift<br />
components<br />
HAFELE<br />
4TH FLOOR, JMC HOUSE,<br />
BISLERI COMPOUND,<br />
WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY, ANDHERI (E),<br />
MUMBAI - 400 099<br />
Telephone: 0091 22 66950920,<br />
0091 9322266912<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 6695 09220<br />
E-Mail: info@hafeleindia.com<br />
Web Site: www.hafele.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Ashish Kapoor,<br />
Business Head - Hospitality Division<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Dialock <strong>Elevator</strong> Terminals.<br />
HIMENVIRO ELEVATORS<br />
& ESCALATORS<br />
202, SAGAR COMPLEX, NEW RAJADHANI<br />
ENCLAVE, VIKAS MARG<br />
DELHI - 110 092<br />
Telephone: 0091 11 22549142<br />
Fax Number: +91 11 2254 9130<br />
E-Mail: sales@himenviro.com<br />
Web Site: www.himenviroelevator.com<br />
Contact: Mr. S.B. Khandelwal<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: <strong>Elevator</strong> &<br />
Escalators & Component - COP, LOP, Push<br />
Buttons, COP Display Units<br />
HITACHI LIFT INDIA<br />
PVT. LTD.<br />
UNIT NO. 307, 3RD FLOOR<br />
ABW ELEGANCE TOWER<br />
JASOLA DISTRICT CENTRE<br />
NEW DELHI – 110 025, INDIA<br />
Telephone: (91 11) 4060 5290<br />
Fax Number: (91 11) 4060 5299<br />
E-Mail: sales@hli.hitachi.co.in<br />
Web Site: www.hitachi-lift.co.in<br />
HYDRO-PNEUMATIC<br />
TECKNIKS<br />
K-17/A, ROAD NO. 6,<br />
UDYOGNAGAR, UDHNA, SURAT<br />
GUJARAT - 395 210<br />
Telephone: +91 261 2277306<br />
Fax Number: +91 261 2277306<br />
E-Mail: hydropneumatic@hotmail.com,<br />
hydropneumatic@dataone.in<br />
Web Site: www.hydrosurat.com<br />
Products: Manufacturers of Hydraulic Cylinders<br />
(Jacks) and Hydraulic Power Packs for <strong>Elevator</strong>s.<br />
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ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong> • 4th Quarter 2010 •<br />
IGV S.P.A<br />
VIA DI VITTORIO, 21<br />
20060 VIGNATE, MILANO, ITALY<br />
Telephone: (39) 02-951271<br />
Fax Number: (39) 02-9560423<br />
E-Mail: igvmail@igvlift.com<br />
Web Site: www.igvlift.com / www.domuslift.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Matteo Volpe<br />
Engineering Contact: Carlo Belletti<br />
Sales Offices: Luigi Martino<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Buffers,<br />
Controllers, Door Operators, Entrances & Fire<br />
Resistant Entrances, <strong>Elevator</strong> Systems, Gearless<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Systems, Geared <strong>Elevator</strong> Systems,<br />
Hydraulic <strong>Elevator</strong> Systems, Hydraulic<br />
Components, Handicap & Platform Lifts<br />
(DomusLift®), Lifts with reduced pit and<br />
headroom (SuperDomus®), Machine Room-less<br />
Lifts (Gearless, Traction & Hydraulic), Rescue<br />
Devices, VVVF Drives, Stairlifts (DomusStair®),<br />
Low Rise Platforms (DomusPlat®), Automatic<br />
doors for residential and commercial buildings<br />
(DomusDoor®), Goods Only Lifts (Cargofit®).<br />
INNOVATION INDUSTRIES,<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
3500 EAST MAIN STREET (72802)<br />
P.O. BOX 2996<br />
RUSSELLVILLE, ARKANSAS 72811<br />
Telephone: (479) 968-2232<br />
Toll Free Phone: 1-800-843-1004<br />
Fax Number: (479) 968-7986<br />
E-Mail: iii@innovationind.com<br />
Web Site: www.innovationind.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Amber Dilday,<br />
Paul Horney & Tom Thompson<br />
Engineering Contact: David DeFrancisco<br />
& Dennis King<br />
Sales Offices: Ray Buford<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Car Operator<br />
Panels, Hall Stations, Position Indicators, Hall<br />
Lanterns, Serial Communication, Key Switches.<br />
JELTRON SYSTEMS<br />
(I) PVT. LTD.<br />
PB NO. 49, 6-3-1199/2,<br />
VAMAN NAIK LANE,<br />
UMANAGAR COLONY, BEGUMPET<br />
HYDERABAD - 500 016, INDIA<br />
Telephone: 0091 40 23401159<br />
Fax Number: +91 40 2340 1149<br />
E-Mail: info@jeltron.com<br />
Web Site: www.jeltron.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Rajesh H. Kamatam<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Toshiba AC<br />
VF Drivers, Toshiba PLC, Toshiba Soft Starters,<br />
ARD, SCR Power Controller<br />
JOHNSON LIFTS PVT. LTD.<br />
NO. 1, EAST MAIN ROAD,<br />
ANNA NAGAR, WESTERN EXTENSION<br />
CHENNAI - 600 101<br />
Telephone: 044 26152200<br />
Fax Number:+91 44 2615 1614<br />
E-Mail: vj@johnsonliftsltd.com<br />
Web Site: www.johnsonliftsltd.com<br />
Contact: Mr. V. Jagannathan, Executive Director<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Manufacturers of <strong>Elevator</strong>s of various capacity -<br />
Passenger Lifts, Good Lifts, Passenger cum<br />
Bed Lifts, Gearless Type & Escalators.<br />
KAMAL ENTERPRISE<br />
C-1/A-3, G.I.D.C. ODHAV<br />
AHMEDABAD - 382415, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 79 2287 0800<br />
Fax Number: +91 79 2287 2273<br />
E-Mail: info@kamalelevatorgear.com<br />
Web Site: www.kamalelevatorgear.com<br />
Contact: Manoj Panchal<br />
Cell Phone: +91 99250 76725<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Design,<br />
Manufacture & Supply of all types <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Traction Machines<br />
KINETEK<br />
STREET NO.1 ANMOL NAGAR,<br />
NEAR KISAN COLD STORE<br />
HOSHIARPUR, PUNJAB<br />
146001 INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 93562.9437<br />
Fax Number: +91 98152.94375<br />
E-Mail: nasvinder.singh@kinetekinc.com<br />
Web Site: www.kinetekinc.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Nashvinder Singh<br />
Engineering Contact: Nashvinder Singh<br />
Sales Office(s): Punjab, <strong>India</strong><br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: traction and<br />
hydraulic elevator controls, complete elevator and<br />
escalator packages, VVVF or direct line escalator<br />
controls, monitoring and dispatching systems,<br />
microprossor boards, automatic rescue devices,<br />
and peripherials.<br />
KONDAIA ENGG.<br />
CO. PVT. LTD.<br />
POLLACHI ROAD, COIMBATORE - 641032, TN<br />
Telephone: 0091 422 2611966, 0091 9965518845<br />
Fax Number: +91 422 2611966 (Tele-Fax)<br />
E-Mail: kondaiahari@gmail.com<br />
Web Site: www.indiamart.com/kondaia/<br />
Contact: Mr. S. Balaji<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Manufacturers of <strong>Elevator</strong> Guide Rails,<br />
Machines and Cabins.<br />
KRISHNA ENTERPRISES<br />
16, BRIJWASI<br />
INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, SONAWALA ROAD, OPP.<br />
UDYOG BHAVAN, GOREGAON (EAST)<br />
MUMBAI - 400 063<br />
Telephone: +91 22 2686 0470 (Tele-Fax)<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 2686 1962 (Tele-Fax)<br />
E-Mail: info@krishnaentps.com<br />
Web Site: www.krishnaentps.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Brijesh C. Bhindora<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Push<br />
Buttons, Car Operating Panels & Floor Operating<br />
Panels Glass COP & HOP, ‘K’ Type & other type<br />
Door Operator & Door Set (MS & SS), ‘O’ type<br />
Door Operator & Door Set (MS&SS), LCD Display<br />
for <strong>Elevator</strong>, RFID Smart <strong>Elevator</strong> Operating<br />
Panel, Door Safety Sensor (TELCO), Fan Grills<br />
and all other spares and accessories.<br />
LARSEN & TOUBRO<br />
Control & Automation<br />
Division<br />
A-600, TTC INDUSTRIAL AREA,<br />
SHIL-MAHAPE ROAD<br />
NAVI MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA, 400710 INDIA<br />
Telephone: 022-67226200<br />
Toll-Free: 1800-233-5858 and 1800-200-5858<br />
Fax Number: 022-27783032<br />
E-Mail: cpcmtech@LNTEBG.com<br />
Web Site: www.larsentoubro.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Sanjeev Madhavan<br />
madhavans@LNTEBG.com Ext:455<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Pankaj Shah<br />
shahpankaj@LNTEBG.com Ext:471<br />
Sales Office(s): Mumbai (Tel: 022-67051191<br />
Fax: 022-67051463); New Delhi (Tel: 011-41419523<br />
Fax: 011-41419600); Chennai (Tel: 044-28462050<br />
Fax: 044-28462102); Kolkatta (Tel: 033-22828418<br />
Fax: 033-22827587); Baroda (Tel: 0265-6613618<br />
Fax: 0265-2336184); Pune (Tel: 020-56033409<br />
Fax: 020-26124910); Bangalore (Tel: 080-25020342<br />
Fax: 080-25583613); Hyderabad (Tel: 040-66720319<br />
Fax: 040-23242356)
Products Manufactured/Supplied: AC/ DC<br />
Drives, Soft Starters, Servo Motion Control<br />
Products, PLCs and HMI, Engineered Panels<br />
LERCH BATES PVT. LTD.<br />
2, AJANTA, 11TH FLOOR,<br />
75, COLABA ROAD<br />
MUMBAI - 400 005<br />
Telephone: 0091 22 22153740<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 2215 3726<br />
E-Mail: pervin.dasgupta@in.lerchbates.com<br />
Web Site: www.lerchbates.com<br />
Contact: Ms. Pravin Das Gupta<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Global<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Consulting Firm - New Construction<br />
Design, Modernisation Evaluations, Maintenance<br />
Audits & Condition Assessments, Client Oriented<br />
Maintenance Contracts.<br />
LIFT SYSTEMS INDIA<br />
PVT. LTD.<br />
1311, NAVJIVAN<br />
COMMERCIAL BUILDING,<br />
LAMINGTON ROAD<br />
MUMBAI - 400 008<br />
Telephone: 0091 22 23073073<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 2308 0025<br />
E-Mail: sales@liftsystems.co.in<br />
Web Site: www.liftsystems.co.in<br />
Contact: Mr. S.M. Hajela<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Hydraulics<br />
Components for Lift - Power Unit, Piston, Car<br />
Frame & Accessories for all types of lifts, Cabin<br />
Door Drive, Landing Door Mechanism, Door Panels<br />
& Frames required for Automatic Doors for Lifts.<br />
LIFTING ITALIA S.R.L.<br />
– VERTICO S.R.L.<br />
VIA CADUTI DEL LAVORO 16-20<br />
BOGOLESE SORBOLO, PR<br />
43058 ITALY<br />
Telephone: +39 0521 695311<br />
Fax Number: +39 0521695381<br />
E-Mail: info@liftingitalia.it<br />
Web Site: www.verticogroup.it; www.liftingitalia.it<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Angelo Vanelli<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Gianpaolo Tonelli<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Passenger<br />
lifts, either traction electric or hydraulic, including<br />
MRL, with roping 1:1 or 2:1, cargo lifts, home lifts,<br />
with reduced pit and lower headroom, car and car<br />
frames for modernization, including scenic lifts<br />
Company Statement: Lifting Italia is part of the<br />
Vertico group of companies. Our management<br />
has an experience of more than 25 years in the<br />
lift business. Contact us for all your needs about<br />
elevator products; we will help you to solve your<br />
problems.<br />
LM LIFTMATERIAL GMBH<br />
GEWERBESTR. 1, LANDSHAM<br />
D-85652 PLIENING<br />
(NEAR MUNICH), GERMANY<br />
Telephone: (49) 89-9099790<br />
Fax Number: (49) 89-9043143<br />
E-Mail: info@lm-liftmaterial.de<br />
Web Site: www.lm-liftmaterial.de<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Stephen Kretzschmar<br />
Engineering Contact: Franz Watzke - Ext. 90997920<br />
Sales Offices: LM LIFTMATERIAL GmbH,<br />
Gewerbestr. 1, Landsham, D-85652 Pliening -<br />
GERMANY, Sales Director,<br />
Mr. Stephan Kretzchmar.<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Machineroomless rope traction lifts with drive in<br />
the shaft head and in the shaft pit, rope traction<br />
lifts for drive locations on top, down at the side,<br />
and on top at the side of the shaft, rope traction<br />
lifts with integrated machine room, modular<br />
hydraulic lifts with cantilevered car sling, hydraulic<br />
lifts with cylinder under or beside the cabin, twin<br />
piston or pulling piston drive system, panoramic<br />
lifts, hospital lifts, special execution lifts, drive<br />
system for rope traction and hydraulic lifts,<br />
automatic doors, manual doors and folding doors,<br />
cabins for passenger lifts, panoramic lifts and<br />
goods-lifts, car frames, safety gears, overspeed<br />
governors and buffers, ropes, rope pulleys and<br />
accessories, guide rails, controllers and speed<br />
regulations, photocells, safe screens, push button<br />
units and electro-magnetic cams, sundries.<br />
M.A.N Industries<br />
5A/107, MITTAL ESTATE,<br />
MAROL, SAKINAKA,<br />
ANDHERI (E),<br />
MUMBAI-400059, INDIA<br />
Telephone: 022-42110100<br />
Fax Number: 022-28500996<br />
Mobile: +91-9821162247<br />
E-Mail: sales@drivesautomation.com<br />
Web Site: www.drivesautomation.com<br />
Contact: Manoj Tekriwal<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Yaskawa AC<br />
Drives, DC Drives, Servo Drives, Servo Motors,<br />
Electric Motors, Geared Motors, Gear boxes,<br />
PLC, UPS<br />
MAGIL<br />
CORPORATION<br />
500 OAKWOOD ROAD<br />
LAKE ZURICH, IL 60047 USA<br />
Telephone: (847) 550-0530<br />
Fax Number: (847) 550-0528<br />
E-Mail: machines@magilcorp.com<br />
Web Site: www.magilcorp.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Joe Salzburg Ext: 115<br />
Engineering Contact: Pete Giannis Ext: 108<br />
Sales Office(s): Gilbert Voisin<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: NEWS! Magil<br />
Corporation introduces the NEW “Blue MAG”<br />
machine for the MRL and Renovation market.<br />
Magil Corporation is a leader and an Innovator<br />
in the elevator industry. Products include<br />
Synchronous Traction Gearless Machines,<br />
VVVF, AC Motors, Encoders; Traction Gears,<br />
Submersible Hydraulic Motors, HomeLift, Door<br />
Locks (swing doors) and high strength Wire Rope<br />
and Fixtures. Magil Corporation, is the most<br />
comprehensive provider of <strong>Elevator</strong>/Lift systems<br />
today. Magil offers product and engineering<br />
solutions for low-rise, mid and high-rise buildings;<br />
while providing expertise in rotating electrical<br />
equipment; geared and gearless machines and<br />
motors. Magil Corporation’s market is<br />
international.<br />
MARK ELEKTRIKS<br />
PLOT. NO. 15, GULTEKDI,<br />
INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, PUNE – 411 037<br />
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA<br />
Telephone: + 91-020-24268499,<br />
+ 91-020-24275379<br />
Tele/Fax Number: + 91-020-66016311<br />
E-Mail: markelektriks@vsnl.net,<br />
sales@markelektriks.com<br />
Web Site: www.markelektriks.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. R.W. Purandare<br />
Engineering Contact: Ms. Akshara Maladkar<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Gearless<br />
motors (PMSM), Special purpose AC motors, DC<br />
motors, Eddy current drives, Permanent magnet<br />
synchronous motors, Energy efficient motors<br />
MAROONE STAINLESS<br />
M-30, STREET NO. 8, APIA,<br />
NEW ROHTAK ROAD<br />
NEW DELHI - 110 005<br />
Telephone: 0091 9818144650<br />
Fax Number: + 91 11 43507984<br />
E-Mail: info@maroone.in<br />
Web Site: www.maroone.in<br />
Contact: Mr. Sanjeev<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Stainless Steel Designer Sheets - N8 Mirror,<br />
Hair Line & N4, Vib (Vibration), Titanium Coated,<br />
Etched Sheet.<br />
MARUTI ELEVATOR<br />
C-1/24 G.I.D.C ESTATE<br />
NARODA, AHMEDABAD<br />
GUJARAT-INDIA 382330<br />
Telephone: 0091-079-22821429<br />
Fax Number: 0091-079-2821429<br />
E-Mail: info@marutielevator.com<br />
Web Site: www.marutielevator.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Bipin Patel<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Manoj Patel<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: AC-1, AC-2<br />
and V3f geared lift machines, Electric Motors,<br />
Brakes, Safety Gears, Governors, Gate Locks,<br />
Door Operator, Deflactor pulley, Main drive<br />
Sheaves, Car & Counterweight frames, Guide<br />
Shoes, Retiring Cam & Striker, Replacement Parts<br />
for OTIS, Guide Rails, Cages, Brackets, Doors.<br />
MATRIX ENGINEERING<br />
DIAMOND I. E., ESTATE NO. 2,<br />
UNIT NO. 3, KETKIPADA ROAD,<br />
OFF WESTERN EXPRESS HIGHWAY NO. 8<br />
DAHISAR (EAST),<br />
MUMBAI – 400068, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 22 2848 1603<br />
Telefax: +91 22 2848 3220<br />
E-Mail: esquire23363@gmail.com<br />
Web Site: www.esquireelevatorparts.net<br />
Contact: Mr. Jayesh Patel<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Automatic Door Systems Imported From Turkey.<br />
MATTEX<br />
5079, BHANDUP INDL. ESTATE<br />
L.B.S. MARG, BHANDUP (WEST),<br />
MUMBAI 400078<br />
Telephone: 02232972130<br />
Mobile: 9322292675<br />
E-Mail: mattex@vsnl.net, anto@mattexpower.com<br />
Web Site: www.mattexpower.com<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Mattex<br />
manufactures a full range of elevator passenger<br />
safety and information products to the <strong>India</strong>n<br />
market. Our products are LED dotmatrix displays,<br />
LCD graphic, segment and dotmatrix displays with<br />
any communication types like parallel, serial and<br />
can. We also manufacture emergency light and<br />
LED lights for lift cabin.<br />
MAYR ANTRIEBTECHNIK<br />
EICHENSTRASSE 1<br />
D-MAUERSTETTEN, GERMANY D-87665<br />
Telephone: (49) 8341-8040<br />
Fax Number: (49) 8341-804421<br />
E-Mail: info@mayr.de<br />
Web Site: www.mayr.de<br />
Marketing Contact: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Hans Eberle<br />
Engineering Contact: M. SC. Dipl.-Ing. (FH)<br />
Bernd Merk<br />
Sales Offices: USA (201) 445-7210,<br />
France 03/21729191, Italy 049-8791020,<br />
UK 01535/663900, Switzerland 052/6740870,<br />
Singapore 0065/65601230,<br />
China 0086/51258917562<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Safety<br />
brakes for passenger lifts, hoists, goods elevators,<br />
escalators as well as shaft couplings and torque<br />
limiters.<br />
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MESSUNG SYSTEMS<br />
PVT. LTD.<br />
EMERALD HOUSE,<br />
EL-3, J BLOCK<br />
MIDC, BHOSARI, PUNE - 411 026, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 20 2710 2000<br />
Fax Number: +91 20 2710 2100<br />
E-Mail: marketing@mspl.messung.com<br />
Web Site: www.messung.com<br />
Contact: Mr. K.T. Chougule<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: V3F Drives,<br />
Programmable Logic Controller, Remote I/O<br />
Systems, HMI<br />
MONTANARI GIULIO & C. SRL<br />
VIA BULGARIA 39<br />
41100 MODENA, ITALY<br />
Telephone: (39) 059-453611<br />
Fax Number: (39) 059-315890<br />
E-Mail: montanari@montanari-giulio.com<br />
Web Site: www.montanari-giulio.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Alessandra Bezzi<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Stefano Bertoni<br />
Sales Offices: Mr. Marcello Bellei<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Lift Gears<br />
for Goods and Passengers, Gearless, Safety<br />
Devices (Speed Governors & Tension Devices,<br />
Instantaneous and Progressive Safety Gears,<br />
One way and Bi-Directional), Mechanical lift<br />
accessories, Frequency controllers<br />
MONTEFERRO<br />
S.P.A.<br />
VIA COMO, 11<br />
21020 MONVALLE (VARESE)<br />
Telephone: +39 0332 798879<br />
Fax Number: +39 0332 971016<br />
E-Mail: customer.service@monteferro.it<br />
Web Site: www.monteferro.it<br />
<strong>India</strong> Contact: Mr Kumar<br />
Mobile Number: +919739982517<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr Kumar<br />
(kumar@monteferro.it); Mr Marco Bodio<br />
(marco.bodio@monteferro.it)<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Standard<br />
elevator guide rails for application below two<br />
metres per second and for average load capacity;<br />
high-speed elevator guide rails for usage in high<br />
load, high frequency, high speed and special<br />
applications; matched high speed elevator guide<br />
rails that Monteferro have a set standard for the<br />
highest speed elevator market segment; Fish<br />
plates - standard, double thick, T-plates, minimum<br />
clearance seismic; Clips - sliding clips, forged<br />
clips, sliding clamp, T-clips; Accessories - clip kits,<br />
anchor bolt kits, shim kits.<br />
ORIENT WIRE ROPES<br />
30-B, INDUSTRIAL AREA,<br />
SANWER ROAD<br />
INDORE, MADHYAPRADESH<br />
452 015, INDIA<br />
Telephone: 0091 731 2721912, 2720456<br />
Fax Number: 0091 731 2721364<br />
E-Mail: (A) mail@orientwireropes.com<br />
(B) orientwireropes@dataone.in<br />
Web Site: www.orientwireropes.com<br />
Marketing Contact: 09406853459<br />
Engineering Contact: 09826047187<br />
Sales Office(s): 0091 731 2721912<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
1) Steel Wire Ropes 2) Steel Wire Rope's Sling<br />
OTIS ELEVATOR<br />
COMPANY<br />
[INDIA] LIMITED<br />
HEAD OFFICE AND WESTERN<br />
REGION MUMBAI OPERATIONS<br />
94<br />
ELEVATOR WORLD <strong>India</strong> • 4th Quarter 2010 •<br />
9TH FLOOR, MAGNUS TOWERS, MINDSPACE,<br />
LINK ROAD, MALAD [WEST]<br />
MUMBAI 400 064<br />
Telephone: [022] 2844 9700 / 66795151<br />
Fax Number: [022] 2844 9791 / 9793<br />
E-Mail: response@otis.com<br />
Web Site: www.otis.com<br />
Sales Office(s): Eastern Region: [033] 2288 2220 /<br />
9724, Fax: [033] 2288 4270; Northern Region:<br />
[011] 4606 9000 / 4606 9100, Fax: [011] 460<br />
69111; Southern Region: [080] 4031 4500,<br />
Fax: [011] 2211 1191; Western Region<br />
Area Operations: [020] 2539 9034-40,<br />
Fax: [020] 2539 9033<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Design,<br />
manufacture and installation of a complete range<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong>s, Escalators and Trav-o-lators.<br />
Maintenance service and Modernization of<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong>s, Escalators and Trav-o-lators.<br />
PEELLE<br />
195 SANDALWOOD PKWY W.,<br />
BRAMPTON, ONTARIO, CANADA, L7A 1J6<br />
Telephone: 905-846-4545<br />
Fax Number: 905-846-2161<br />
E-Mail: exportsales@peelledoor.com<br />
Web Site: www.peelledoor.com<br />
Sales Contact: Jose Vilchez<br />
Engineering Contact: Frank Leo<br />
Sales Offices: United States (800) 645-1056;<br />
International (800)787-5020<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Bi-parting<br />
and Slide-up Freight <strong>Elevator</strong> Hoistway Doors,<br />
Car Door (Gates), Motorized and manual,<br />
Freight <strong>Elevator</strong> Car (Cab) Enclosures, Channel<br />
Iron Entrance Frame/Sill assemblies, Wiring<br />
Materials and <strong>World</strong> Wide Installation. Materials<br />
to Motorize and/or Modernize the Existing Freight<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> equipment of any manufacturer. Center<br />
opening doors specifically designed for freight<br />
elevator applications.<br />
PEPPERL + FUCHS<br />
(INDIA) PVT. LTD<br />
B, PLOT NO. 10, 3RD MAIN, 1ST STAGE,<br />
PEENYA INDL. ESTATE BANGALORE - 560 058<br />
Telephone: 0091 80 28378030, 28395585<br />
Fax Number: +91 80 2837 8031<br />
E-Mail: fa-info@in-pepperl-fuchs.com<br />
Web Site: www.pepperl-fuchs.com<br />
Contact: Ms. Deepika Arora<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Inductive<br />
Sensor, Photoelectric Sensors, Capacitive and<br />
Magnetic Sensors, Ultrasonic Sensor, Positioners,<br />
Distance Measurement Units, Data Transmission<br />
Light Beam System, Vision Sensor and Solutions,<br />
Sensor for Door, Gates and <strong>Elevator</strong>s, Safety<br />
Sensor and Control Units, Incremental and Absolute<br />
Rotary Encoders, Position Encoding System - WCS,<br />
Identification System: RFID, BAR CODE, DATAMATRIX,<br />
AS - Interface Solution, Counters, Tachometers,<br />
Speed Monitor, Converter, Displays.<br />
PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT<br />
TECHNOLOGIES<br />
BOX 400, 4 LING STREET<br />
MARLBOROUGH, NEW HAMPSHIRE 03455 USA<br />
Telephone: (603) 876-9990<br />
Fax Number: (603) 876-9995<br />
E-Mail: lorsbachgp@monad.net<br />
Web Site: www.pmtvib.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Gregory P. Lorsbach<br />
Engineering Contact: Gregory P. Lorsbach<br />
Sales Offices: Jude M. Wright,<br />
wrightjm@pmtvib.com<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: EVA-625<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> & Escalator Vibration Analysis System;<br />
EVA Vibration Analysis Tools Software;<br />
IMD-1 Escalator Step/Skirt Performance Index<br />
Measurement Device; MMC-1 Multi-Measurement<br />
Data Collector; ETCH01 Tachometer Module.<br />
PREMIUM ENERGY<br />
TRANSMISSION LTD.<br />
PB 5, MUMBAI -<br />
PUNE ROAD, CHINCHWAD, PUNE - 411019,<br />
INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 20 66314112<br />
Fax Number: +91 20 27450287<br />
E-Mail: rao.s.n@petltd.com<br />
Web Site: www.premiumtransmission.com<br />
Contact: Mr. S.N. Rao<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Manufacturers of complete assembly of elevator<br />
machine, elevator gear box/geared motor for lift<br />
door opening/escalator/luggage conveyor, etc.<br />
PRISMA DSA INDUSTRIES<br />
(INDIA) PVT. LTD.<br />
A-20, CROSS ROAD “B”, MIDC,<br />
ANDHERI EAST<br />
MUMBAI 400 093<br />
Telephone: +91 22 67429700 / 701<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 29209159<br />
E-Mail: info@prismadsa.com,<br />
marketing@prismadsa.com,<br />
sales@prismadsa.com<br />
Web Site: www.prismadsa.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Ashok Subhedar<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: <strong>Elevator</strong><br />
Controllers and allied products, Fabrication<br />
Services - CNC Fabrication, Water Jet Cutting<br />
Systems & Services.<br />
RASSEGNE SPA - LIFT<br />
VIA VARESINA 76<br />
MILANO, 20156 - ITALY<br />
Fax Number: +39 02 48550479<br />
Telephone: +39 02485501<br />
E-Mail: lift@fieramilano.it<br />
Web Site: www.liftitalia.com/ita.html<br />
Marketing Contact/Sales: Costantino Cutroneo,<br />
EXT +39 048550324<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: International<br />
Exhibition of elevators, components, accessories,<br />
trade publications and services<br />
M/s REVATHI ENTERPRISES<br />
F 104, MADHUBAN, NEAR MTNL<br />
BLDG AND DAHISAR TOLL POST. WESTERN<br />
EXPRESS HIGHWAY, DAHISAR (EAST),<br />
MUMBAI 400068, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 22 28972184, 3184<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 28978643<br />
E-Mail: hctawde@gmail.com; hct@revathi.com<br />
Web Site: www.revathienterprises.com<br />
Contact: Hemant Tawde<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: <strong>Elevator</strong>s<br />
Cars, Doors, Frames and Precision Fabricated<br />
Assembies using CNC laser technology.<br />
SAVERA INDIA RIDING<br />
SYSTEMS CO. PVT. LTD.<br />
PLOT NO. D-22, TALOJA, MIDC INDUSTRIAL<br />
AREA, TALOJA -410208, DISTRICT RAIGAD<br />
MAHARASHTRA, INDIA<br />
Telephone: 0091 22 27402300/01<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 2740 2302<br />
E-Mail: a.pawar@saveraindia.com<br />
Web Site: www.saveragroup.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Ajay Pawar<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: “Super”<br />
Guiderails that can be used in lifts with speeds<br />
between 0 - 1.6 m/sec. machined.
SCHAEFER GMBH<br />
WINTERLINGER STR. 4<br />
72488 SIGMARINGEN GERMANY<br />
Telephone: (49) 7571-722-22<br />
Fax Number: (49) 7571-722-99<br />
E-Mail: info@ws-schaefer.de<br />
Web Site: www.ws-schaefer.de<br />
Marketing Contact: Mr. Michael Gubisch,<br />
Managing Director<br />
Engineering Contact: Mr. Michael Gubisch,<br />
Managing Director<br />
Sales Offices: Mrs. Ilona Hanke<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Push Buttons<br />
and/or Push Button Stations; Signal Fixtures;<br />
Voice Synthesizers; Intercom Systems; Access<br />
Control Systems; Lift Info Systems<br />
SCHMERSAL<br />
INDIA PVT. LTD.<br />
7TH FLOOR, VATIKA TRIANGLE<br />
BLOCK A, SUSHANT LOK PHASE 1<br />
MEHRAULI - GURGAON ROAD<br />
GURGAON - 122002, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 124 4342300<br />
Fax Number: +91 124 4342333<br />
E-Mail: info-in@schmersal.com<br />
Web Site: www.schmersal.in<br />
Contact: A.S. Senthil Kumar<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Door<br />
Contacts with Positive Breaks, Magnetic Reed<br />
Switches, Door Locks, Position Switches, Floor<br />
Switches, Position Systems.<br />
SEMATIC ITALIA S.P.A.<br />
VIA ZAPPA COMM.FRANCESCO, 5<br />
OSIO, SOTTO (BERGAMO)<br />
24046 ITALY<br />
Telephone: +39-035-4815100<br />
Fax Number: +39-035-4815199<br />
E-Mail: infosem@sematic.com<br />
Web Site: www.sematic.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Dr. Ing. Marcello Personeni<br />
Engineering Contact: Dr. Ing. Roberto Zappa<br />
Sales Office(s): sales@sematic.com<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Automatic<br />
entrances for elevators. Operators, full glass<br />
entrances, framed glass entrances specifically<br />
designed for panoramic installations, round doors<br />
are also available. Last Product Lines developed:<br />
entrances for modernization and for inclined<br />
elevators. Entrances are fire rated, vandal<br />
resistant, for marine application, for saline or dusty<br />
atmospheres or exposed to adverse weather<br />
conditions with high humidity and falling water.<br />
SETTIMA<br />
MECCANICA<br />
VIA BERLINGUER 1<br />
SETTIMA (PC) 29020 ITALIA<br />
Telephone: +390523 557623<br />
Fax Number: +390523 557256<br />
E-Mail: info@settima.it<br />
Web Site: www.settima.it<br />
Marketing Contact: Ferraresi Simone<br />
Engineering Contact: Cagnani Pierpaolo<br />
Sales Office(s): Ferraresi Simone<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Screw pumps<br />
SHANGHAI BST<br />
ELECTRIC CO., LTD<br />
DA-MAIWAN INDUSTRIAL<br />
ZONE,HANGTOU,NANHUI,<br />
SHANGHAI,CHINA<br />
SHANGHAI 201316 CHINA<br />
Telephone: 86-21-58222286<br />
Fax Number: 86-21-58221353<br />
E-Mail: export@shbst.com<br />
Web Site: www.shbst.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Ms. Shelley Zhou<br />
Engineering Contact: Ms. Xiaodi Zhu<br />
Sales Office(s): International Business Dept.<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Shanghai<br />
BST has the multi-processing capability for<br />
electrical, mechanical, electronical, plastic, cable<br />
products. BST is specialized in manufacturing of<br />
elevator and escalator electrical components,<br />
which includes: Car operation panel, Landing<br />
fixtures, Push button, PCBA, Hoistway fixtures,<br />
Control system, Cable, Cable harness etc.<br />
SHARP ENGINEERS<br />
552’A’ ROAD,<br />
CROSS ROAD 12, GIDC,<br />
KATHWADA<br />
AHMEDABAD, INDIA<br />
Telephone: 0091 79 22901711<br />
Fax Number: +91 79 22901716<br />
E-Mail: info@sharpengineers.com<br />
Web Site: www.sharpengineers.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Mitul Patel<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Machines & Spares.<br />
SHREE RAMDEV<br />
STEELS PVT. LTD.<br />
REGISTERED OFFICE<br />
E-2/9, BHARAT NAGAR, GRANT ROAD<br />
MUMBAI - 400 007, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91-22-2307 9214/6639 4734<br />
Fax Number: +91-22-2241 2758<br />
E-Mail: abishek@ramdev.org<br />
Web Site: www.shreeramdevmetalmart.com<br />
Contact: Mr. Abishek Purohit<br />
Sales Office: 85/87, C. P. Tank Road,<br />
Mumbai-400 004<br />
Telephone: +91-22-6659 5062/ 6639 3595<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: We take the<br />
pleasure to introduce ourselves as one the largest<br />
Manufacturer of No. 4 & No. 8 Finish Stainless<br />
Steel Sheets.<br />
SKYLINE<br />
INDIARECRUIT.COM<br />
PVT. LTD.<br />
44, DECCAN COURT,<br />
259-SV ROAD, BANDRA WEST<br />
MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA 400050 INDIA<br />
Telephone: (+91 22) 2655 8076<br />
Fax Number: (+91 22) 2651 4750<br />
E-Mail: elevators@indiarecruit.com<br />
Web Site: www.elevator-jobs.com<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied:<br />
Recruitment of <strong>Elevator</strong> Trained Personnel<br />
TAK CONSULTING<br />
PVT. LTD.<br />
303, GALLERIA,<br />
HIRANANDANI GARDENS, POWAI<br />
MUMBAI - 400 076<br />
Telephone: +91 22 2570 7498 / 3263 8551<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 2570 7499<br />
E-Mail: tak.mathews@takconsulting.net<br />
Web Site: www.takconsulting.net<br />
Contact: Mr. Tak Mathews<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Design,<br />
Project, Service, Modernization & Traffic Analysis<br />
Consultants for <strong>Elevator</strong>s, Escalators and<br />
Moving Walks.<br />
TL JONES INDIA PVT LTD<br />
202 HYDE PARK<br />
SAKI VIHAR ROAD, ANDHERI-EAST<br />
MUMBAI 400 072 INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 22 4215 0700/01/02/03<br />
Fax Number: +91 22 4200 0789<br />
E-Mail: info@tljones.com<br />
Web Site: www.tljones.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Dinesh Musalekar,<br />
Tel +91 22 6526 0345 / 6<br />
Engineering Contact: Rajesh Dharne,<br />
Tel +91 22 6526 0345 / 6<br />
Sales Office(s): Mumbai (Tel: +91 22 6526 0345 / 6);<br />
New Delhi (Tel: +91 1 2553 7775);<br />
Chennai (Tel: +91 44 4308 1447)<br />
Also: Singapore, Christchurch, Shanghai,<br />
Guangzhou, Beijing, Chongqing, Dubai, Tokyo,<br />
London, New York.<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: TL Jones<br />
<strong>India</strong> supplies a full range of elevator passenger<br />
safety and information products to the <strong>India</strong>n<br />
market. This includes world leading infrared door<br />
safety edge brands Microscan and<br />
Panachrome, plus E-Motive brand elevator<br />
multimedia & TFT displays, emergency<br />
communications systems, annunciators, gongs,<br />
LED lights, photo sensor switches, lift monitoring<br />
systems and various accessory products.<br />
TECHNÍSCHE AKADEMÍE<br />
HEÍLBRONN E.V<br />
THE TECHNÍCAL ACADEMY<br />
OF HEÍLBRONN E. V.<br />
MAX-PLANCK-STRAßE 39<br />
74081 HEÍLBRONN, GERMANY<br />
Telephone: +49 (0) 7131 / 56 80 63<br />
Fax Number: +49 (0) 7131 / 56 80 65<br />
Web Site: www.hs-heilbronn.de/TAH/EnglishTAH<br />
E-Mail: tah@hs-heilbronn.de<br />
Contact: Prof. Dr. G. Clauß<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: TAH offers a<br />
broad and permanently updated spectrum of<br />
specialized training, seminars and conferences of<br />
varied duration focused on technology areas and<br />
business management. Due to the ongoing<br />
globalization, a variety of courses have been<br />
introduced to include the specific needs in<br />
language and correspondence in an international<br />
environment.<br />
TECNO DOORS PVT. LTD.<br />
PLOT NO. L-1<br />
SIPCOT IND. PARK SRIPERUMBUDUR<br />
MAMBAKKAM & PONDUR ‘A’ VILLAGE<br />
SRIPERUMBUDUR TALUK,<br />
KANCHEEPURAM DIST. 602106<br />
TAMIL NADU, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 (0) 44 2716 8013<br />
Fax Number: +91 (0) 44 2716 8012<br />
E-Mail: commercial.in@fermator.com<br />
Web Site: www.fermator.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Krishnan Ramanarayan<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Automatic<br />
Doors for Passenger and Goods Lifts<br />
UT LIMITED<br />
14, PRINCEP STREET<br />
KOLKATA – 700 072<br />
E-Mail: mails@utlift.in<br />
VIRGO<br />
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#132, 1ST FLOOR, 5TH CROSS,<br />
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BANGALORE - 560 008, INDIA<br />
Telephone: +91 80 2556 7028/29, 4149 3996/97<br />
Tele-Fax Number: +91 80 2556 7028/29<br />
E-Mail: info@virgo-comm.com,<br />
anitha@virgo-comm.com,<br />
raghu@virgo-comm.com,<br />
thomas@virgo-comm.com<br />
Web Site: www.virgo-comm.com,<br />
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Products Manufactured/Supplied: Organizers of<br />
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Web Site: www.elevatorworldindia.com<br />
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& Mr. G. Raghu<br />
Sales Office(s): Mr. Thomas T. Abraham<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Publishers of<br />
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WITTUR<br />
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WIEDENZHAUSEN, GERMANY 85259<br />
Web Site: www.wittur.com<br />
Marketing Contact: see website<br />
(“Contact us” section)<br />
Engineering Contact: see website<br />
(“Contact us” section)<br />
Sales Office(s): see website (“Contact us” section)<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: see website<br />
(“Product navigator” section)<br />
WURTEC, INCORPORATED<br />
6200 BRENT DRIVE<br />
TOLEDO, OHIO 43611<br />
Telephone: (419) 726-1066<br />
Toll-Free: 1-800-837-1066<br />
Telephone: (419) 729-5764<br />
E-Mail: sales@wurtec.com<br />
Web Site: www.wurtec.com<br />
Marketing Contact: Julie Kreienkamp<br />
Engineering Contact: Steven Wurth<br />
Products Manufactured/Supplied: Guide Rail<br />
Install/Align Tools; False Cars; Roping and<br />
Hoisting Equipment; ADA Phone Systems;<br />
Oil Filtering Systems; Safety and Electrical<br />
Equipment; Power & Hand Tools; Test &<br />
Measuring Equipment; Material Handling<br />
& General Purpose Tools; Hydraulic Tools;<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> Components<br />
Advertisers Index<br />
AFAG Messen und<br />
Ausstellungen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />
Bharat Bijlee Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Blain Hydraulics Gmbh . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
Canny Group Co., Ltd . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />
Chr. Mayr GmbH + Co. KG. . . . . . . 19<br />
Concord <strong>Elevator</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85<br />
EEST - <strong>Elevator</strong> &<br />
Escalator Safety Trust . . . . . . . . . 46<br />
Elecon Engineering Co Ltd . . . . . . 27<br />
<strong>Elevator</strong> <strong>World</strong> . . . . . . . . . . 4, 6, 68, 96,<br />
<strong>Cover</strong> 3<br />
Esquire Engineering Co. . . . . . . . . . 23<br />
ETA Melco Mitsubishi. . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />
EXCELLA Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />
Expert Equipments Pvt. Ltd. . . . . . . 64<br />
Formula Systems Ltd . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />
Fuji Electric <strong>India</strong> Private Ltd.. . . . . 75<br />
Gefran <strong>India</strong> Pvt. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
Hitachi Lift <strong>India</strong> Pvt. Ltd. . . . . . . . . 43<br />
Hydro-Pneumatic Teckniks . . . . . . . 74<br />
Jeltron Systems (<strong>India</strong>) Pvt. Ltd. . . . 45<br />
Johnson Lifts Private Limited . . . . . . 5<br />
Kamal Enterprises<br />
(Maxton Group) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
Kinetek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
Lenzi <strong>Elevator</strong>s <strong>India</strong> Pvt Ltd. . . . . . 59<br />
Lift Systems (<strong>India</strong>) Pvt. Ltd . . . . . . . 79<br />
M.A.N Industries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />
Mark Elektriks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87<br />
Matrix Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />
Monteferro SPA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1<br />
Orient Wire Ropes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
Otis <strong>Elevator</strong> Co. (I) Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
Physical Measurement<br />
Technologies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69<br />
Sematic Italia S.P.A. . . . . . . . . <strong>Cover</strong> 4<br />
Shanghai BST Electric Co., Ltd. . . . 41<br />
Shree Ramdev Steels Pvt. Ltd. . . . . 11<br />
Skyline <strong>India</strong>recruit.com Pvt Ltd . . 63<br />
Suzhou International<br />
Expo Center Co., Ltd . . . . . . . . . 55<br />
Tak Consulting Private Limited. . . . 83<br />
Tecnolama S.A. . . . . . . . . . . . <strong>Cover</strong> 2<br />
The Peelle Company Ltd. . . . . . . . 61<br />
Vertico, srl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86<br />
Virgo Communications<br />
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Wittur S.p.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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