Elevatori Magazine
The Elevatori magazine, established in 1972, is one of the leading international journals in the vertical transportation industry.
It discusses techniques, standardisation, association activities, culture and events.
Elevatori has been bilingual in Italian and English since 1989.
In this issue 4/2010

Without false modesty. If there is something we do not lack here in Elevatori, these are ideas. This time - in the function of being the official gazette of the IAEE (International Association of Elevator Engineers) and of the more than twenty-year long friendship and reciprocal arrangements - we thought that it was the moment to create an award, able to even reinforce our relationship. This is why we created the “Elevatori High Tech Award”. The award is given to the best paper presented at the Elevcon congress, the international congress on vertical transportation technology, organised by IAEE since 1986.
The first “Elevatori High Tech Award” was awarded on 3 June 2010, on the occasion of the Elevcon 2010 Lucerne gala dinner (see the report on the Elevcon in Topical Subjects). The winner was Adrian Godwin and his futuristic project “Skytrak”.
His idea is a circular transportation project offering architects a new “degree of freedom” for building and services shapes and configurations.
“Skytrak” offers all the advantages of multiple cabins travelling in one shaft without the increased mechanical complexity of transferring cabins horizontally or on and off tracks. The complete paper is in the Techniques column.
The “Elevatori HighTech Award” was born to start a tradition. A tradition meant to become a long lasting one and that Elevatori is going to represent on the occasion of the next Elevcon events. The first award showed to be a success but also a difficult task for the jury (John Inglis, IAEE; Karl Weinberger, Schindler; Matteo Volpe and Fabio Liberali, Elevatori), because of the very high quality of the Lucerne presentations in the whole. But here in Elevatori we like hard challenges.
Regarding the present issue of our magazine a few highlights. Apart from the Elevcon, the rest of the Topical Subjects column has a European key. We report on the activities of EFESME (Brussels assembly and seminar) and the ELA/EEA (Berlin general meeting). Finally, a study on the trends of the European residential housing crisis.
In Techniques, apart from the “Skytrak”, we continue to deal with the lift energy consumption issue. Here we present the field study carried out by Vittorio Mazzoni on 11 lifts, representing a good sample of the Italian existing installations.
Last but not least, in Standards, Laws & Regulations, Giovanni Varisco starts a new article series dedicated to the harmonised standards within the EU Product Directives.

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