United Technologies, Hanjin Group to team up on sustainability

""Across the UTC, all of our products convert energy to useful work, and new designs are much more efficient than traditional ones. For example, Otis elevators that regenerate electric power when loads descend and operate with one quarter of the power otherwise needed. "Or...

KONE wins a major order for Shanghai International Finance Centre

""We are very pleased to have won an order for the Shanghai IFC building, which will surely become a beacon of Shanghai's thriving economy," Pekka Kemppainen, KONE Area Director for Asia-Pacific. "We are happy to work with Sun Hung Kai Properties Group on this order, which...

Underfunding Leaves Many with Little Less than Shoestrings

"Jeannie Riggs lines her balcony South of Market with cactus to deter vandals from climbing up and breaking into her apartment. Leslie Clark, who uses a wheelchair and lives on the eighth floor of a Tenderloin building, says he gets stranded when the elevators break down."