Weight reduction has been the key aim of the nine-year development of the patented KONE UltraRope system, says Johannes de Jong, the company's head of technology for major projects. As buildings get ...

China may be quick on the path to constructing the world’s newest tallest building ever, but should they succeed, their reign is probably going to be fairly short-lived—and all because of an elevator.

Elevator and design consultants are lauding a new elevator system from KONE Corp. that drastically reduces the weight of the hoisting cables—the bane of tall-building experts. The patented system, ...

Otis Elevator's quest to carry people up skyscrapers twice as tall as the Empire State Building harkens back to a pivotal innovation by its founder: ensuring that riders won't plummet back to Earth if ...

Skyscrapers will be able to soar to greater heights with help from plastic in the latest lift technology developed by Kone Corp., an elevator and escalator maker based in Helsinki. Kone put a ...

In the future, after your 40 minute journey between Washington DC and New York, you might be able to hop on an elevator that not only goes up and down, but also sideways, and between buildings. German ...

The days of vertical elevators may soon be behind us. A rope-free elevator system that can travel both vertically and horizontally is being tested in a 246m tower in Rottweil, Germany. As existing ...

The first Space Needle Skyliner elevator was unveiled on May 23. It is a double-decker elevator and features floor-to-ceiling glass for improved city views. It is the first of its kind to exist in ...