Elevator World

Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com CORONAVIRUS DELAYS CHICAGO OBSERVATORY CONSTRUCTION Because it involves putting people in close quarters on elevators, including the tallest exterior glass elevator in North America, the US$185-million plan to build an observatory atop Aon Center, Chicago’s third-tallest skyscraper at 1,136 ft., has been delayed by coronavirus, the Chicago Tribune reports. Property owner 601W and tourist attraction operator Legends originally planned to start construction on Sky Summit this fall and open it in 2022. That has been pushed back nearly a year, with opening now planned in 2023. According to Aon Center General Manager Matthew Amato, the project is temporarily halted “in part to provide more time for a potential treatment or cure for coronavirus, and to see if any aspects need to be redesigned.” In addition to the exterior glass elevator, on the drawing board are a 9,000-ft2 pavilion and