The Fire, Buildings and City Planning Departments are writing rules to govern what are called occupant-evacuation elevators — cars that can, in special circumstances, be used to move people down in an emergency. [...]
Experts who have spent years studying building evacuations believe that approach has become outmoded and is in itself potentially dangerous as extremely tall skyscrapers increasingly pierce the New York skyline.
— nytimes.com
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About time.
Just talked to a relative tonight who is an engineer with Schindler, says they are pressurizing cabs now due to speed.... anything is possible and this is a logical.
That's big news.
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