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SPOTLIGHT REPORT

Sky bridges, Test Towers and

Innovations: thyssenkrupp Elevator sets

the Tech Trends and Highlights for 2020

• New innovations lead 2020 is knocking on the door. What will it the transportation routes of the futureinstead
the way, including sky bring for the technologies that disrupt - or of a mere architectural connection. For
bridges which revolutionize even - revolutionize industries? “Que será?”,as example, rather than holding the function of
the famous song goes, for indeed, the future
a pedestrian bridge between skyscrapers,
space as we know it and is hard to predict. Sometimes, there are these areas will instead be turned into living
smart technologies that exceptions. spaces at exciting heights. These areas will
mean elevators can be Such is the case for thyssenkrupp Elevator, include swimming pools, event spaces,
fixed, even before whose research engineers have not only meeting rooms or even a sky bar. As a cross-
they are broken developed smart innovations for next year but connection with many functions, they also
• These innovations, have also prepared for the future. You could pave the way for our horizontally moving
rope less system, MULTI,” comments Markus
alongside tower running, say that they have looked into the crystal ball Jetter, Head of Research & Innovation Center
“flying carpets” for city and discovered some exciting trends and Rottweil at thyssenkrupp Elevator. thyssenkrupp
centers and the world’s key highlights for 2020. A snapshot of these is Elevator funds an 18-month research project,
captured below:
first rope less elevator for “Skybridges: Bringing the Horizontal into the
skyscrapers makes for an • Sky bridges: One Vertical Realm,” which will culminate
in the publication of a Council on
exciting year ahead of the main trends Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
for 2020 will be the Technical Guide on the topic,
further development with richly-detailed narratives and
and increasing use technical drawings, as well as
of what has been historical overviews and future
named ‘sky bridges’ speculations about skybridges’
as an architectural potential.
element. No longer just
a connection between • At the Expo 2020 in Dubai, MULTI
two buildings at lofty will be presented as an important
heights, but instead a innovation at the German pavilion,
useful area and living starting in October.MULTI is the
space. “Sky bridges are world’s first rope less elevator

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