Nick Gretsuk

Every story about tall buildings starts with the same problem. In 1852, in a bedstead factory up in Yonkers, a mechanic named Elisha Otis needed to hoist heavy loads to an upper floor, and he was tired of worrying about the rope letting go. Elisha Otis demonstrating his safety brake at the New York Crystal Palace, 1854. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. It started with a rope that wasn't allowed to fail What Otis built was a spring loaded safety brake. The second the rope went slack, a set...

Your tenants judge your building 1,800 times a year — once per elevator ride. The elevator cab is the one room in your building everyone enters — every floor, every day. It's your building's daily handshake… and it's the room most owners never actually design. Vertice changes that. We turn elevator cab modernizations into a fluid, on-time, on-budget process — interiors, weight & elevator load-compliance, and ADA cab specs — so the most-used room in your building finally makes the right...

A photorealistic, engineered cab-rendering program for elevator consultants and architects — see the exact cab, built to real dimensions and Code, before a single panel is cut.