MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC BUILDING NEW TRAINING CENTER IN JAPAN
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC BUILDING NEW TRAINING CENTER IN JAPAN
Mitsubishi Electric is significantly ramping up training for installation technicians by building a new, 2,182-m2training center at its main factory in Inazawa, Japan. The company is investing approximately US$8.67 million in the facility, which will have 11 shafts and eight elevators for hands-on training, as well as a hazard simulator. Citing increasing global demand for elevators and escalators, the company aims to increase the number of new installation technicians in Japan to 1,000 and installation supervisors outside of Japan to 350 by March 2020. The center is expected to start operation in October 2018.
TALLEST RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN BIRMINGHAM ENVISIONED
The trio of buildings comprising phase one of developer Nikal's Exchange Square in the works in Birmingham, U.K., could get a significantly taller neighbor in the form of a 46-story structure that, if built, would be the tallest residential building in the city,Construction Enquirer reports. Exchange Square's current tallest building is 27 stories. The 46-story structure would be part of phase two, which has more than doubled its number of homes to 565, including in an adjoining, seven-story building. Nikal is working with Sir Robert McAlpine on the project, intended to be "dramatic and architecturally stunning."
RESIDENTIAL SKYSCRAPER NEARS COMPLETION IN NYC’S TRIBECA
111 Murray Street, a champagne flute-shaped skyscraper designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox in New York City’s (NYC) Tribeca neighborhood, is on track for a 2018 completion, having just received its glassy crown, New York YIMBY reports. Containing approximately 160 condominiums and ground-level retail, the structure stands 58 stories and 800 ft. Developed by Fisher Brothers, New Valley and the Witkoff Group, it joins similarly scaled projects nearby including 56 Leonard Street and 30 Park Place, though the residential skyscraper boom is expected to soon shift to the Financial District.
