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The French city of Marseille is reviving itself, and Schindler is to provide 20 elevators for a new high-rise designed by star architect, Zaha Mohammed Hadid.
By 2009, Schindler 7000s will be shuttling passengers to the top of Marseille's highest building – a new 145-metre tower, which is to become the headquarters of container shipping giant, CMA-CGM.
The high-rise is located in the business quarter of the city, once blighted by crime and decay, but now the site of one of Europe's largest urban re-developments.
France's fastest
Schindler is providing 15 high-rise elevators - which will be among France's fastest, capable of speeds of seven m/s – as well as five Schindler 5400s.
"Success here will significantly increase our profile for future high-rise projects in France," says François Reuter, a member of the project team, which includes Schindler Paris, R&D, and of course the Top Range Division (TRD) in Ebikon.
TRD project leader, Marco Ferroni, said this project was unusual in that Schindler had been in direct contact with the architects and builders at a very early stage. Usually such discussions take place through an elevator consultant.
Specifications
As a consequence, the team had been able to make suggestions about elevator specifications. Ferroni added that he had permanent access to the client's server and so can look at plans and make suggestions.
"This makes contact with the client much easier and faster. Also I don't feel like I'm simply delivering components. I am responsible for systems and part of a complex planning and building process."
Members of the Schindler team have been attending on-site meetings since October, and the first "jump lifts" (which deliver materials) are scheduled for installation in November 2007.
Destination control
Schindler is to provide 15 Schindler 7000s in total, including ten passenger, two freight, one restaurant and two panorama elevators. Of the additional five Schindler 5400s, two will be for passengers, one for disabled people, and two for freight. All will be equipped with the Miconic 10 destination control and Schindler's ID access system.
Iraqi-born Zaha Mohammed Hadid is one the world's top architects. She won the 2004 Pritzker Prize (considered the "Nobel prize" of architecture), and most recently designed the Cincinnati Art Centre, the first contemporary museum designed by a woman, and a building for BMW in Leipzig, Germany.
Reference Projects
Heron Tower, London
Begovaya Tower, Moscow
ICC, Hong Kong
Federation Tower, Moscow
CMA-CGM Tower, Marseille
WTC3 Beijing
Begovaya Tower, Moscow
ICC, Hong Kong
Federation Tower, Moscow
CMA-CGM Tower, Marseille
WTC3 Beijing
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