International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong

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Hong Kong's gigantic International Commerce Centre (ICC) boasts some of Schindler's most impressive products, including 40 "double deck" elevators, and 18 high-speed ones. These are needed to cope with traffic in the tower, which stretches almost half a kilometre into the sky.

The ICC is a project of superlatives. One of the four tallest structures in the world, it contains 83 elevators and 41 escalators. Taken together, its elevator shafts stretch more than 14 kilometres, and the double-decks speeding up and down the tower reach velocities of 9 m/s.

Unusually for a skyscraper, the ICC has a flat top, which means elevators will literally reach the roof. The longest run for a double-deck elevator is an impressive 396m, but one service/fire-fighter elevator has a staggering 474m run – almost the entire height of the vast tower, which stretches to 484m, with 118 floors.

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Reference Projects

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Begovaya Tower, Moscow
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