University of Maryland Elevator Modernization

a US$1.7-billion operating budget, and secures US$500 million annually in external research funding. It is also one of the top 10 highest-rated Washington, D.C.-area employers. Quality Elevator was awarded a project that required extensive engineering and cooperation with numerous parties for the elevator modernization of the university’s Biology-Psychology Building. Contributors to this project included Hollister-Whitney/ GAL, Motion Control Engineering and Innovation Industries, all coordinated by Quality Elevator. The project consisted of designing and renovating two basement traction elevators originally installed in 1971. The university was looking to move forward with the most efficient green installation available, which was to replace these machines with AC

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Opposite page: Completed project

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• University of Maryland

• AC permanent-magnet basement traction machines

• New controllers

• Overhead deflector sheave

• Original controllers

July 2015 • ELEVATOR WORLD 95