Elevator World

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com VANCOUVER HOUSE LANDS TOP CTBUH AWARD AND MORE Vancouver House, a 49-story residential tower in Vancouver, Canada, boasting TKE elevators that tie those at Calgary's Telus Sky for fastest in western Canada at 1,600 ft/min, received the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Best Tall Building Worldwide Award at the CTBUH 2021 Tall + Urban Innovation Conference held virtually on May 18-20. GUNN Consultants consulted on the vertical-transportation system, which includes 17 passenger and two freight elevators, for client Westbank Corp. Dialog designed custom cab interiors for the project, which includes two dedicated elevators for bicyclists on Granville Bridge. Bjarke Ingels Group is behind the innovative design that forms a triangle at the base and gradually transitions to a rectangle as it ascends. The skyscraper sits on a narrow, triangular site where Granville Bridg