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Mitsubishi supplied all of the tower's 149 elevators, [59] including three high-speed models capable of traveling 1,080 meters (3,540 ft) per minute (64.8 kilometers (40.3 mi) per hour). [60] When they were installed (2014), they were the world's fastest single-deck elevators (18 meters per second (40 mph)) and double-deck elevators (10 meters ...
KONE High-Rise Test Tower (Underground) [1] Kone: Tytyri, Finland: 1,148 ft (350 m) 1997 One of Kone's major achievements in elevator technology was tested at this facility. 1 H1 Tower [2] Hitachi: Guangzhou, China: 897 ft (273 m) 2020 Became the tallest elevator test tower when completed in January 2020 2 Jauhar Test Tower [3] Otis: Shanghai ...
The tower is 173 metres (568 ft). [1] When completed in 2007, it was the world's tallest elevator test tower. Since that time, the record has been broken by the Hyundai Eizan Tower (205 meters) in 2009, the Hitachi G1 Tower (213 meters) in 2010 and the Kunshan Test Tower in China (235 meters). [2]
The building's high-speed elevators, manufactured by Toshiba of Japan, held the record for the fastest in the world at the time of completion. The elevators of Taipei 101 that transport passengers from the 5th to the 89th floor in 37 seconds (attaining 60.6 km/h (37.7 mph)) set speed records.
This exceeded the top speed Shanghai Tower's elevators could deliver which was a top speed of 20.5 m/s (67 ft/s), [28] [29] making the lifts within the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre the world's fastest. In September 2019, the elevator received a Guinness World Record title as the world's fastest. [30]
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 used by Kone.
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Tower East is designed to have 95 above-ground and 3 underground floors, and 17 high-speed elevators will be installed there (JP. Kocher). According to the company Potok, which is the builder of the tower, it used grade B90 concrete which is twice as strong as regular concrete and will allow the skyscraper to withstand a direct hit of an aircraft.