I apologize but I just couldn’t swing a show today. Between work and home, there were just too many irons in the fire so to speak and sleep needed to take priority over the show today.
Next week we’ll have our prize pack giveaway and we’ll get back on track. Have a great week everyone and have a Happy Halloween.
Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-21 #177
Nice short show today everyone. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks and now that the crew I work with is on the mend I feel as if I’m starting to catch the bug that seems to have hit our office. Hopefully it won’t go full circle. Next week is our prize pack giveaway, this time we’re giving away $100 Visa Gift card. This is my way of saying thanks for supporting the show. (Pictured is a photo of the Elevator Constructors from 1942. Get your own framed picture and at the same time support the EESF. $5 bucks from each sale goes back to the Elevator Escalator Safety Foundation.)
News Links:
Elevatorman Stories – San Diego
10 Year Anniversary of Man Trapped In Elevator for 41 Hours
Board talks YHS Elevator – School fixed up with Stimulus Money
Eagle Elevator Offers Package to Fix Top Seven Elevator Violations
Hong Kong apartment sells for $57 million
Canadian’s deal with accessibility issue
Parcells Hall elevator near completion
Power Efficiency bolsters sales force, management team
Take a look at America’s Strangest Homes For Sale
Space Elevator Games Beaming Competition Set – Nov 2nd to 6th
Unapologetically Mundane – Terror on the elevator
LaserMotive works with REI on Space Elevator
After 2 months elevator soon to be fixed
Elevator installment for Shenzehen Metro Line No. 3 completed
Man escapes smoke filled elevator
New regulations and funding mean California takes lead position
Otis Elevator Donates To Ronald McDonald House
City parking garage hits snag
Hot Springs landmark received upgade
KONE 3Q Net Profit Plus 24%
KONE wins major maintenance contract for Stockholm metro
Otis wins contract for landmark development in Seoul
UTC 3Q profit down 17 percent
Ottawa Stair Editorial
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Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-14 #176
Another busy week at work as our shop has the flu bug going around which means double duty for a few of us here so remember to wash your hand’s everyone and as often as possible. I’m pretty sure that I’m catching it as well as I’m tired and feel the onslaught of being tired and having a sore throat. Another week filled with article’s everyone. You’ll enjoy the one written by Jim Collet, from Elevator Man Stories. I think it’s important to remember those who we worked with who may have passed on. Jim does an excellent job at doing this. Also on the program today a story covering what I believe to be the worst elevator mine accident I’ve every read about, in which 26 miners in China where killed. All I can say I’m glad that I live in the USA where codes and regulations are there to protect workers and the general public. (Pictured: Forty-one Cooper Square, in NY, is being developed so that the elevator only stops at floors 1, 5 and 8. With the intent to make students use the stairs more often. I suspect a lawsuit addressing ADA will soon be in the news.)
News Links:
A Different Kind of Larry
7 Sickened Near OC Federal Building Elevator
A sheltered life by design, without TV on the elevator
Space Elevator Official Poster
Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?
Chinese mine elevator plunges workers to their deaths
Fulton Public Library’s elevator project continues
Half Baked Idea – Liquid Only Counterweight for Elevator, no motor required….
Hospitals, Healthcare Providers award bid to Otis
Alliance Elevator Consultants – What’s that grinding noise?
JIA’s central corridor getting $9 million makeover
Can you change the direction of an escalator without a key?
Project to take elevator down
Shabbat Elevator ban is height of controversy
Camden to reopen escalator station
The big exercise boost
Boarding the Chinese Economic Elevator
Elevators being installed in more homes
Hydraulic Residential Elevator
Space Elevator Games are on!
Jobs for Filipino Elevator Project Manager Abroad
Space Elevator and Lunar Industrialization Conference set for December
Student Ignites Elevator Door
This would keep people off the escalators!
Crazy building with crazier elevator service
Freight Elevators now allow bicycles on them in NY - Bike Access Law?
Student Ignites Elevator Door
Escalator mishap injures 13 people at Blues Game
How to avoid catching the swine flu
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Click Here to download ERS-2009-10-07 #175
I’m not sure where global warming is occurring or not but here in Chicago we seem unaffected by it. It’s October 7th and its windy and chilly. I just hope that winter doesn’t hit with a vengeance. This is the first show of the month and we’ll cover the calendar of events and news of the week. I was surprised at the number of stories I found online today. One story with a tragic ending involved a man in a motorized wheel chair who reportedly died when he drove into an elevator shaft and fell eight stories. As well as this accident we had another escalator handrail slider who is in serious condition after falling over the side of the unit. Okay, note to self and anyone else who might be reading this. Sticky escalator hand rails not so slippery, keep both feet on step, hold on to handrail and watch step when getting off. Support the EESF at www.eesf.org and perhaps people like this will be getting an education from their kids who have attended and learned from the Safety Rider Program!
Calendar Of Events:
NAESA Calendar
NAEC Calendar
NAVTP Calendar
EIG SC Calendar
CEA Calendar
EAF Calendar
ECNY Calendar
CECA Calendar
EESF Calendar
Elevator U Calendar
MESA Calendar
NCEIG Calendar
Sponsors/Listener Links:
ElevatorShack.com
Elevator Man Stories Blog
Elevator Radio Show Facebook Page – Become a Fan!
ElevatorBob.com
News Links:
A Witness Program for Elevators – NY
Cowboys Stadium Elevator
Delivery man recounts elevator nightmare
Funny Space Elevator Video
Eagle Elevator Installs Systems for the Uniform Elevator Key, FL – Interesting
Elevator and Escalator “Cruise Control”
Elevator or the stairs? In Israel, Rabbis Weigh In
Homework versus Escalator…on purpose or not?
Local Jobs Lost in Keighley as jobs move overseas
RS Elevator Acquired by KONE in LA
Lighthouse Plaza residents protest delay in repair
Mall patrons get trapped in elevator
Man in serious condition after falling over escalator
Reportlinker Adds World Elevators Market Report
Smoke, odor at Hays Elevator caused by overheated motor
Space Elevator Games one kilometer tether finally ready
Work to begin on fixing elevator for handicapped in Stroudsburg
See even firefighters like elevators
Boy gets toes trapped in escalator
Demolition photos of Yankee Stadium – Lighting & Escalator Removal
Dunn Elevator Traps TA – Read the comments….very interesting!
Detroit man dies when his motorized wheelchair plunges 8 floors down elevator shaft
Interesting Article On Elevator Construction Project at Community College
High Rise Life: Elevator Etiquette
Hmmmm….Elevatorrules.com – Someone has a funny side and too much time on their hands!
LuLu.com Presents All Kinds of Elevator Books
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