Lack of Elevator Techs Creates Problems in San Francisco by Elevator World published on 2017-08-18T19:59:30Z Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. This week’s news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: http://www.elevatorbooks.com LACK OF ELEVATOR TECHS CREATES PROBLEMS IN SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco’s construction boom has resulted in so much work for elevator technicians that there are not enough to handle an estimated US$71 million in elevator and escalator repairs needed by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni), the San Francisco Examiner reports. Muni approved the funds in August as part of a multibillion-dollar, 20-year capital-improvement plan. Muni operates 52 units, including 44 in stations. Repair and expansion of vertical-transportation systems at various stations, including Powell, Van Ness and Forest Hill, are needed as units are frequently out of service. As of August, at least one elevator was out of service for 50 out of the last 61 days, according to Muni data. NEW SITE SERVICE SOFTWARE DIRECTOR OF SALES Site Service Software has hired Erin Cain as director of Sales. Cain comes with more than five years of experience in managing teams, increasing product sales and applying expertise in data-driven/long-term business planning. A graduate of Arizona State University, she was most recently a sales representative for Paycom, a Brooklyn, New York, technology company. NEW RENDERINGS OF VIÑOLY-DESIGNED RITZ CARLTON IN NYC By 2021, a 40-story, 580-ft.-tall Ritz Carlton hotel designed by Rafael Viñoly should be complete at 1185 Broadway in Manhattan’s NoMad (north of Madison Square Park) neighborhood, New York YIMBY reports. Fresh renderings show the property, set to contain 164 large hotel rooms starting on the eighth floor, amenities that include two ballrooms and first-floor retail. Although it is only a few blocks from the Empire State Building, the hotel is expected to command a prominent spot on the skyline as its only, comparable immediate neighbor is the 476-ft.-tall Virgin Hotel a block away. Flag Luxury Properties is the developer, and construction is expected to start in 2018. DIGIPARA FOCUSES ON CAD PRODUCTIVITY Industry building-information-modeling (BIM) software provider DigiPara' theme at Interlift will be "Elevators. BIM. Automation." It has updated its Liftdesigner product to what it calls its "2018" edition. In addition to its typical use of drawing automation through enterprise resource planning systems, it is now also possible to load and reuse computer-aided-design (CAD) models from common CAD programs with it. Users can also export their CAD data as 3D BIM models. The 3D CAD files can come from SolidWorks, PTC Creo and Autodesk Inventor. Manufacturers can provide their entire elevator as a 3D BIM model to architects. Image courtesy of sfexaminer.com: http://www.sfexaminer.com/muni-construction-boom-gobbles-technicians-delays-elevator-rebuilds/ Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes│Google Play | SoundCloud│Stitcher│TuneIn Genre Business