IoT’s Role

Sep 3, 2024 | elevatorworld.com | Colin Craney |Bülent Yılmaz |Lee Gray |IoT’s Role

photo courtesy of Paris 2024On 7 August, Day 12 of the Paris 2024 summer Olympics, Great Britain reached a milestone of 1,000 medals in Olympic modern games history, according to the official stats. According to UK Sport, British and Northern Irish athletes have competed at every single Olympic Games since 1896, when the modern Olympic Games first took place in Athens, and the country’s first Olympic champion in 1896 was Launceston Elliott, who won the one-handed lift in weightlifting.

Sep 3, 2024 | elevatorworld.com | Madeleine Olausson |IoT’s Role |Vikram Mehta |Thomas Salter

submitted by Access BDDAccess BDD, in conjunction with one of its North American business partners — 101 Mobility — helped a New Jersey family continue to live in their home by installing a Flow X curved stairlift. Robert Anderson had been finding the stairs increasingly challenging, and his wife, Judith, noticed that he was becoming weaker due to muscle wastage.

Sep 3, 2024 | elevatorworld.com | Thomas Salter |Madeleine Olausson |Lindsay Fletcher |IoT’s Role

The U.K.’s largest event for the built environment, UK Construction Week (UKCW) London made a welcome return to ExCeL London last week with a string of exclusive launches, a star-studded line-up of speakers, international pavilions from across the globe and a host of new features.

Sep 3, 2024 | elevatorworld.com | Angie Baldwin |IoT’s Role |Vikram Mehta |Madeleine Olausson

The survival of a 1927 specification and tender for an electric goods lift, prepared by Smith, Major and Stevens, Ltd. for the Atlas Works (Shrewsbury), provides a unique opportunity to examine vertical-transportation (VT) industry business practices in the late 1920s. Part one of this article (1927 Smith, Major & Stevens Specification & Tender (Part 1)) offered an overview of the history of Smith, Major and Stevens from its founding in the early 1800s to the 1920s.

Sep 3, 2024 | elevatorworld.com | Lee Gray |Thomas Salter |Angie Baldwin |IoT’s Role

Someone once said something along the lines of “Leadership isn’t about having all the answers; it’s about having the best questions.” So, pondering on this a bit recently, I decided to carve up a company into different silos and think about what good (and tough) questions might be for each of the silos. There are some great models available around which to build my question set, one of the best to my mind being the old (not current) Business Excellence Model.