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Stay on Corporate siteKONE Corporation, press release, October 4,
2012
KONE has won an order to supply 52 elevators and 21 escalators to
South Beach, a new 150,000 m2 mixed use eco-quarter development in
downtown Singapore.
The scheme will house almost 50,000 m2 of lettable office
space and a 651 bedroom designer hotel. There will be a
total of 190 premier residential apartments and almost 8,000
m2 of retail space. A members only club will be
accommodated within a 2,700 m2 area.
The project also includes the conservation of four historic
buildings and two striking towers standing at 45 and 34 storeys
each. The complex will feature lush planting and sky gardens and is
scheduled for completion in 2015.
KONE was involved in the early stages of the project planning and
created a customized People Flow(TM) solution to meet the needs of
the various building types and user groups. The high-rise buildings
will have 31 KONE MiniSpace(TM) elevators, of which six will travel
at speeds of 8.0 m/s. The office tower will feature the KONE
Polaris(TM) hybrid destination control system, which will reduce
waiting times for office workers with the use of artificial
intelligence.
An additional 21 KONE MonoSpace® machine-room-less elevators will
be delivered to South Beach, of which three are scenic models. The
elevators come equipped with regenerative drives which will reduce
up to 35 percent of an elevator's total energy consumption, by
supplying the regenerated electrical energy back to the building's
power network. The penthouse apartments in the high rises will have
five small home lifts to improve accessibility for people with
impaired mobility. The order also includes 16 KONE TravelMaster(TM)
and five KONE TransitMaster(TM) escalators, which will help create
optimal retail flow in the shopping area.
"We are happy to provide our innovative and customized People Flow
solutions in this project design which continues the Singaporean
ideal of the 'city in a garden'," says Noud Veeger, EVP and Area
Director of KONE Asia Pacific and Middle East. South Beach has been
designed by architects Foster + Partners and the hotel interior by
Philippe Starck . The site is jointly developed by City
Developments Limited (CDL) and IOI Group.
The order was booked in the third quarter of 2012.
For further information, please contact:
Anne Korkiakoski, EVP, Marketing & Communications, KONE
Corporation, tel. +358 204 75 4775
About KONE
KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator
industry. The company has been committed to understanding the needs
of its customers for the past century, providing industry-leading
elevators, escalators and automatic building doors as well as
innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance. The
company's objective is to offer the best People Flow® experience by
developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move
smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in
an increasingly urbanizing environment. In 2011, KONE had annual
net sales of EUR 5.2 billion and on average 35,000 employees. KONE
class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in
Finland.
www.kone.com