Elevator World

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP TOP-50 TOWERS LIST FOR CTBUH 50TH ANNIVERSARY thyssenkrupp released its Top-50 Buildings List in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s (CTBUH) Annual Conference, being held through October 30 at the World Congress Center in Chicago. During the event, MULTI CEO Michael Cesarz and Head of the Research & Innovation Center Markus Jetter planned to discuss “The Third Dimension of People Transportation” and “Lift and the City: How Elevators Change and Reinvent the Shape of Cities,” respectively. thyssenkrupp states it has “played an instrumental role in creating elevator systems that have empowered architects and developers to create awe-inspiring buildings,” providing as examples the 71 elevators — including the fastest in the Western Hemisphere — and 12 escalators at the 1,776-ft-tall One World Trade Center in NYC, and the mor