UOMaryland

July 2015 • ELEVATOR WORLD

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

Opposite page: Completed project

This page, clockwise from top left:

• University of Maryland

• AC permanent-magnet basement

traction machines

• New controllers

• Overhead deflector sheave

• Original controllers

Continued