Chicago elevator incident: Lift carrying passengers plunges more than 80 floors as hoist rope breaks

An elevator inside Chicago’s former Hancock building dropped 84 floors before trapping six people inside, local news outlets reported. Rescuers arrived shortly after the fall early Friday morning to cut a hole in the building’s wall and free those inside. The accident unfolded at in the 875 North Michigan Avenue building, formerly known as the John Hancock Center and
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EARLY POPULATION Before any thought is given to the elevators in a building, a thorough and detailed study must be made of how people will arrive at the building, occupy that building, and move about the building. Occupancy is an obvious prerequisite to the design and size of the building itself. It must be expected
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Coroner: 38-year-old father dies in elevator fall in downtown Lexington building A 38-year-old man fell down an elevator shaft to his death Thursday in a building under construction in downtown Lexington, according to the Fayette County coroner. Travis Collins fell 14 to 16 feet at the work site at about 1:30 p.m., said Coroner Gary
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Schindler forms robotics research collaboration with Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Today Schindler announced the debut of its breakthrough Robotics Installation System for Elevators (R.I.S.E), paving the way for greater automation and digitalization in the elevator industry. With its autonomous and self-climbing robot, this prototype solution allows the safe and high-quality installation of
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Schindler Group, the second-largest shareholder of Hyundai Elevator, has officially filed for an investor state dispute settlement against the Korean government seeking US$300 million in compensation for losses over its approval of paid-in capital increase of the Korean lift maker from 2013 to 2015. According to the Ministry of Justice on Oct. 15, Schindler has
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Elevatoring is the analysis of the requirements of vertical transportation of people and materials in a building, under all operating conditions. Such transportation requirements may be studied from a compatibility aspect, as in an office building from a function aspect, as in a hospital or from a merchandising point of view, in a department store.
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HYDRAULIC ELEVATORS A third major type of elevator in use today is a modern version of the hydraulic elevator. Most hydraulics are direct-plunger-driven from below (the cylinder extending into the ground as high as the elevator rises), and the operating fluid is oil moved by high- speed pumps rather than water under pressure see the
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GEARED TRACTION MACHINES As the name implies, the geared traction elevator machine utilizes a reduction gear with a high-speed motor to drive the traction sheave. A high-speed ac or dc motor drives a worm and gear reduction unit, which in turn drives the hoisting sheave, the net result being the slow sheave speed and high
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Gearless Elevator Traction Description The preceding brief discussion of early elevator history introduced the traction-type elevator. The first high-rise application of this type of elevator was in the Beaver Building in New York City in 1903, followed by such notable installations as the Singer Building (demolished in 1972) and the Woolworth Building. These elevators were
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TRACTION ELEVATORS Description: Up until about 1903, either drum-type elevator machines, wherein the rope was wound on a cylindrical drum, or the hydraulic-type elevator (the direct-plunger hydraulic or the roped hydraulic machine) was the principal means of hoisting force. Both had severe rise limitations: the drum type, in the size of the drum; and the hydraulic
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