Put the Spring Back in your Elevator!
As with your vehicle, home, or work space, a tune-up in the Spring is always recommended with having a vertical transportation device. By scheduling a routine elevator maintenance visit, providing a general Spring clean-up should be quick and easy! With these tips below, it will help maintain the life, comfort, and reliability of your elevator,…
Kencor Elevator Systems Featured in Elevator World.
Kencor, Inc. was recently featured in one of the world’s most leading elevator industry magazines this past March: Elevator World! Shedding some spotlight on the successes of Kencor, it delves deeper into the business practices and growth Kencor has experienced since being founded by Rick Kennedy in 1981. It explains our customer strength, areas of…
Are your Elevators Ready for Winter?
Preventative elevator maintenance is always the cornerstone of continuous operation and long life span of your elevators. Natural causes such as weather can have many adverse effects on safe operation. It is increasingly important for building owners and property managers to be aware of how cold weather can affect your elevators. It’s important to be…
Proprietary Equipment and What It Means to You
Kencor, Inc. Elevator Systems continually strives to provide our customers educational resources to help them stay informed with their elevator maintenance, repair, and installation needs. We feel it is of utmost importance to understand your elevator equipment as to enable multiple maintenance providers and frequent accessibility to replaceable parts, which allows for fewer elevator inoperability…
Elevators 101
Do you have an elevator in your building? Ever need to make a service call and have uncertainties of how to explain the problem or what are the common terms of your elevator? Well you’re in luck! We have listed a few common terms related to your elevator so in the event you need some…
Exploring Elevator Aesthetics
Submitted by Kencor Elevator Systems, Inc. What we have in mind when designing an elevator is providing the passengers safe and reliable transportation to their destinations. During the construction of many building designs there is rarely a second thought to any innovation while constructing the transportation within the building. The elevator is treated as a…
John Dodds Elected to the NAEC Board of Directors
Kencor, Inc. Elevator Systems is celebrating the achievements and honoring one of their own, John Dodds, who was elected to the NAEC Board of Directors on September 20, 2016 at the fall convention in Montreal. John will serve a 3-year term on the board for the industry as a Director. John Dodds, Chief Operating Officer…
Transforming America: One High-Rise at a Time
For most city-dwellers, the elevator is an unremarkable machine that inspires none of the passion or interest that Americans afford trains, jets, and even bicycles. Without the elevator, there could be no downtown skyscrapers or residential high-rises, and city life as we know it would be impossible (Neyfakh, 2014). It is argued that the elevator…
9 Elevator Facts You Didn’t Know!
Elevator music was first introduced to elevators in the 1920’s. Its main purpose was to calm fearful passengers who were using an elevator for the first time. There are over 24 elevators are the historic Roman Colosseum build in 80 AD. The elevators were operated manually by over 200 slaves. Spain has the most elevators…
Innovations in Elevator Technology
When people think about transportation infrastructure, they tend to think of roads, bridges, and railways. However, vertical transportation is becoming increasingly important as cities expand as there have been several technological innovations in recent years. Technology and the Elevator Button New technology and advancement in particular that is changing the elevator industry in buildings is…