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The TK Elevator Test Tower, an elevator test tower in Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. An elevator test tower is a structure usually 100 to over 200 metres (300 feet to over 600 feet) tall that is designed to evaluate the stress and fatigue limits of specific elevator cars in a controlled environment.
The only lift-testing tower in Britain, and one of only two in Europe, it was granted Grade II listed building status on 30 October 1997, making it the youngest listed building in the UK at the time. The building's small, obround shaped windows were a design motif of the Express Lift Company, whose lift control panels featured control buttons ...
The H1 Tower is an elevator testing tower in Guangzhou, China, owned by Hitachi. At 273.8 m (898 ft) it is the tallest elevator testing tower in the world. Including the 15 m (49 ft) deep basement, the overall height of the tower measures 288.8 m (948 ft). [1] [2] The structure includes 15 elevator test shafts, totaling 2.2 km (1.4 mi) in length.
Emlak Konut Elevator (EKA) Test Tower [28] Emlak Konut Elevator Konya, Turkey 141 ft (43 m) 2022 The tower has 4 elevator shafts that tests different elevator applications. 29 ThyssenKrupp Elevator (Dover) Test Tower [29] (former) TK Elevator, Dover Corporation: Horn Lake, Mississippi, United States 138 ft (42 m) 1964 The tower has 14 elevator ...
It stands 246 m (807 ft) tall and was built to test the company's MULTI elevator system. At 232 m (761 ft), the tower contains Germany's tallest observation deck . [ 1 ] It was completed in 2017 and was the tallest elevator test tower in the world then, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] as well as the second-largest elevator test chamber after a former mine shaft ...
The test tower was built in 1966 and has a height equivalent of 18-stories. There are three shafts in the tower, two of them are to test high-rise elevators, and one of them is to test safety features on the elevator (Freefall, Emergency Brakes, etc). The top floor of the test tower was a conference space for the company to have meetings.
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The Mitsubishi Electric-owned Solae Test Tower (173 m) in Inazawa City, Japan, is the world's 4th tallest elevator testing tower after Hyundai elevator test tower at Icheon plant (205 m) South Korea, the Kone Tytyri test tower (235 m) and the Rottweil Test Tower (246 m).