Otis to supply 263 lifts to KAFD
01 April 2012
OTIS Elevator Company Saudi Arabia has won six contracts to supply and install 263 elevators, including 10 double-deck elevators, and 90 escalators, in various buildings in the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
An affiliate of Otis Elevator Company, a unit of United Technologies Corp, it will install the units in buildings which include two of the tallest structures in the district, the KAFD World Trade Centre and GCC Bank headquarters.
Otis will install 25 elevators and eight escalators in the KAFD World Trade Centre and 30 elevators and four escalators in the GCC Bank headquarters.
Double-deck elevators can save up to 40 per cent of the space required by conventional elevators, the company said.
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