Lift Report

Ami Lustig (ESL – Eng. S. Lustig Consulting Engineers Ltd., Tel-Aviv, Israel)

David Ben-Gurion International Airport (BGA) situated 20 km (12 miles) southeast of Tel Aviv and 50 km (31 miles) from Jerusalem, is the largest international airport in Israel. The airport’s 3-letter IATA airport code is TLV. The old terminal (Terminal 1) and runways built by the administration of the British Mandate of Palestine from 1935 to 1937 as part of a broad plan to lay down airports in Mandate-time (pre-State) Israel. Since then, the terminal building was constantly extended by the Israel Airports Authority.

MEEES – Dubai, March 14th to 17th, 2005

Dubai – Arabia – thousand and one night: these pictures come to mind if one thinks of the place. Unheard things happen without any doubt presently in Dubai: investment pours into the place with side effect for the whole Middle East. Sky scrapers sprout off the soil quite similar to the construction boom in Shanghai; motorways with eight lanes plough the dry desert while left and right of it new construction lots have already been allocated for start up. The apartments in the new towers viewing the blue-green sea are sold out before braking soil, identical with the emission of new shares on the Dubai stock exchange being over drafted ten to twenty times.

AFAG Messen und Ausstellungen GmbH

In recent weeks there has been an accumulation of registrations from Southern European countries for the coming interlift 2005. Elevator companies from Italy, Spain, Turkey and Greece will be achieving the largest national representations. The Chinese participation in Hall 3 will have grown considerably in comparison to interlift 03, much more than originally planned at the beginning of this year. As a result this exhibition hall is practically fully booked. In addition a very big delegation of visitors is expected from China.