Is 2,000 feet per minute enough?

Elevator World

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 88-95

  Barker, Frederick ^a,b,c  

^a Otis Elevator Company   (United States)

^b National Interest Review Committee   (United States)

^c Cncl Tall Buildings Urban Habitat ^*  (United States)

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EID: 5544283360     PISSN: 00136158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. McNeill, A., 1995 A THEME ADDRESS: "The BLEND OF INNOVATION AND TRADITION IN FUTURE CONSTRUCTION PRACTICE", Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat, Fifth World Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2. Fortune, J.W., 1995 MEGA HIGH-RISE ELEVATORS: THEY COULD BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH, Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress, Council on Tall Building and Urban Habitat, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
3. Peilli, C., 1995 A THEME ADDRESS: "COSMIC PILLARS", Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Fifth World Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands
4. Credit for the "Mother Nature" analogy is given to William S. Lewis, formerly with Jaros Baum & Bolles Consulting Engineers and Otis Diversified Systems.
5. Engineering News-Record, 1983. HOW TALL?, The McGraw-Hill Construction Weekly, New York, N. Y., November 1983, pp. 44-55.
6. U.S. Department of Justice, 1991 APPENDIX A TO PART 36 - STANDARDS FOR ACCESSIBLE DESIGN, ADA ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES FOR BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES, FEDERAL REGISTER, VOL. 56, NO. 144, July 26, 1995.
7. Norma Brasileira Registrada, 1983 ASSOCIACAO BRASILEIRA DE NORMAS TECHNICAS, CALCULO DO TRAFEGO NOS ELEVADORES, NBR5665, April 1983.
8. The Port System, designed by Mr. Leo Port, an Australian Engineer, was patented in the 1960's and installed in two buildings in Sydney, Ausstralia.
9. Basis was Internal Correspondence by J. Kendall, Otis Elevator Company, January 10, 1994, and an Internal report by J.W. Fuller, J. Ruiz, and M. Kurisko of United Technologies Research Center entitied CONTROL OF PRESSURE COMFORT AND MOTION IN ULTRA-HIGH SPEED ELEVATORS, April 1992.
10. Based on a report by P.L. Lavrich of United Technologies Research Center, T. Derwinski of Otis Elevator Company, and W.M. Presz, Jr. of Western New England College entitled AERO-DYNAMIC NOISE AND VIBRATION SOURCES FOR HIGH-SPEED ELEVATOR CABS, presented at Noise-Con 93 in Williamsburg, Virginia, May 3-5, 1993.
11. ASME-A17.1, 1993 SAFETY CODE FOR ELEVATORS AND ESCALATORS, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, New York.