Where there are tall buildings there are also tall elevators. Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Tower, designed by Chicago-based Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, will be the tallest building in the world ...

Supertall buildings call for creative vertical transportation strategies. Hitachi Ltd. and its Hitachi Elevator Co. Ltd. division have annouced that they will build and install 95 elevators—including ...

How do you design a new type of elevator without installing it in an existing building? It’s a chicken/egg question that engineers have long struggled with—even using abandoned mine shafts to test new ...

Everything is big with New York's Empire State Building, so upgrading the 20th- century elevators running up and down its 102 floors without disrupting thousands of office workers, visitors and ...

* 60% reduction in moving masses for an elevator with a travel height of 500 meters * 15% reduction in energy consumption for an elevator with a travel height of 500 meters * When elevator travel ...

A new report by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) investigates the potential for rope-less and multidirectional elevator cabins for high-rise buildings. The technology runs on a ...