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World's highest elevator test tower

New Shanghai skyscraper set to become world's highest elevator test tower

11 May 2016 | 7 comments

One of the world's biggestelevator manufacturers has unveiled plans to build a 270-metre-high skyscraper in Shanghai that will be dedicated to testing lifts.

Billed to become the tallest above-ground test tower ever built, the skyscraper will provide research and development facilities forOtis, the company behind the elevators in the world's highest building, the 828-metre Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

The brand – which is also providing lifts for the new 599-metre Ping An Finance Centre in Shenzhen and 555-metre Lotte World Tower in Seoul – plans to use the build to test new technologies.

It claims the building will allow it to deliver "higher efficiency and smaller footprints, as well as industry-leading safety, comfort and convenience for passengers".

Otis also designed elevators for the world's highest building, the 828-metre Burj Khalifa in Dubai























Otis was founded in the 19th century by the inventor of the safety elevator, Elisha Graves Otis, and today maintains over 2 million elevators and escalators worldwide.

"As the industry leader that introduced safe elevator technology, this is a strong example of how we are investing to accelerate innovation and technology development for our next generation elevators and service," said company president Philippe Delpech.

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Elevator towers are typically around 100 metres tall, but theincreasing construction of skyscrapers around the world has created a need for much taller test facilities.

Among the tallest examples already built are
the 213-metre Hitachi G1 Tower










and 173-metre-high Solae tower, both in Japan, and the 205-metre Hyundai Asan Tower in South Korea.

These facilities are likely to continue to grow, as experts are hailing 2016 as the beginning of the megatall skyscraper era.


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