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www.elevatorworld.com• July 2015
Last year, Quality Elevator Co. installed the first AC permanent-magnet basement traction machine at
the University of Maryland, College Park. The university is located on 1,250 acres of rolling land on the
Baltimore-Washington, D.C. corridor. It is the state’s flagship university and one of the nation’s preeminent
public-research universities. A global leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, the university is
home to more than 37,000 students, 9,000 faculty and staff and 250 academic programs. The institution has
Quality Elevator collaborates with other industry companies to renovate
traction elevators in the busy Biology-Psychology Building.
by Jack Higgs
University of Maryland
Elevator Modernization
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