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TK Elevator GmbH

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Member Since: 2010

Member Offices: Essen

With customers in over 100 countries served by more than 50,000 employees, thyssenkrupp Elevator achieved sales of around €8 billion in the fiscal year 2018/2019. Over 1,000 locations around the world provide an extensive network that guarantees closeness to customers. After building its position as one of the world’s leading elevator companies in a mere 40 years’ time, thyssenkrupp Elevator became an independent company in August 2020. The company’s most important business line is its service business, with approximately 1.4 million units under maintenance and over 24,000 service technicians globally. The product portfolio covers commodity elevators for residential and commercial buildings to cutting-edge, highly customized solutions for state-of-the-art skyscrapers – such as One World Trade Center in New York. In addition, it also consists of escalators and moving walks, passenger boarding bridges, stair and platform lifts, as well as tailored service solutions such as MAX, the industry’s first cloud-based digitally enhanced maintenance solution – thus covering a broad spectrum of urban mobility.

Fields of Expertise

Materials / Products / Systems Supplier; Vertical Transportation Consultant; Vertical Transportation Supplier

Membership details

Membership Level

Gold

Member Since

2010

Member Offices

Essen

Buildings

Rank	Name	Height
1	One World Trade Center	541.3 m / 1,776 ft
2	Ostankino Tower	540 m / 1,772 ft
3	Shanghai World Financial Center	492 m / 1,614 ft
4	PIF Tower	385 m / 1,263 ft
5	Lakhta Center	377 m / 1,237 ft
6	Federation Tower	373.7 m / 1,226 ft
7	Mercury City Tower	338.8 m / 1,112 ft
8	Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower	328.6 m / 1,078 ft
9	50 Hudson Yards	308.2 m / 1,011 ft
10	Comcast Center	296.7 m / 974 ft

Awards

Award of Excellence: Lakhta Center

Best Tall Building 400 meters and above 2021

Ctbuh Leaders

Markus Jetter

CTBUH Skybridges Research Project Steering Committee, 2018 – Present

Stuttgart

Building Completions Timeline

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Videos

01 June 2018

Occupant Interior Transportation Routes Using MULTI

As part of the ongoing CTBUH research project, "A Study on the Design Possibilities Enabled by Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators", students created hypothetical projects that utilize...

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Research

30 January 2020

From “Tech Miracle” to Evolutionary Change

The potential of ropeless elevators to change the way we experience urban space has been addressed by two research projects conducted by CTBUH and funded...

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Research

17 October 2016

New Approaches for Efficient People Transportation in Both Dimensions – Vertically and Horizontally

The trend of growing cities with permanently increasing populations will require new and visionary solutions for mobility in urban areas. Moving people as we are...

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Associated companies

Formerly Named

Formerly Named

Rank	Name	City	Completion	Height
1	Sky Mile Tower	Tokyo	-	1700 m / 5,577 ft
2	One World Trade Center	New York City	2014	541 m / 1,776 ft
3	Ostankino Tower	Moscow	1967	540 m / 1,772 ft
4	Federation Tower Spire	Moscow	-	506 m / 1,660 ft
5	Shanghai World Financial Center	Shanghai	2008	492 m / 1,614 ft
6	PIF Tower	Riyadh	2020	385 m / 1,263 ft
7	Lakhta Center	St. Petersburg	2019	377 m / 1,237 ft
8	Federation Tower	Moscow	2016	374 m / 1,226 ft
9	Mercury City Tower	Moscow	2013	339 m / 1,112 ft
10	Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower	Hanoi	2012	329 m / 1,078 ft
11	Waterview Tower	Chicago	-	319 m / 1,047 ft
12	50 Hudson Yards	New York City	2022	308 m / 1,011 ft
13	Comcast Center	Philadelphia	2008	297 m / 974 ft
14	One Tower	Balneario Camboriu	2022	280 m / 919 ft
15	Eight Spruce Street	New York City	2011	265 m / 870 ft
16	Zhongshan Thyssenkrupp Elevator Laboratory Tower	Zhongshan	2018	248 m / 814 ft
17	181 Fremont	San Francisco	2018	247 m / 810 ft
18	Aufzugstestturm	Rottweil	2017	246 m / 807 ft
19	Evolution Tower	Moscow	2015	246 m / 807 ft
20	FKI Tower	Seoul	2013	246 m / 805 ft
21	Federation Tower - Zapad Tower	Moscow	2008	243 m / 796 ft
22	55 Hudson Yards	New York City	2018	237 m / 779 ft
23	Infinity Coast Tower	Balneario Camboriu	2019	235 m / 770 ft
24	ÏCE Condominiums at York Centre 2	Toronto	2015	234 m / 768 ft
25	Harbour Plaza Residences East	Toronto	2017	233 m / 764 ft
26	Time Warner Center North Tower	New York City	2004	228 m / 749 ft
26	Time Warner Center South Tower	New York City	2004	228 m / 749 ft
28	RSA Battle House Tower	Mobile	2007	227 m / 745 ft
29	Harbour Plaza Residences West	Toronto	2017	224 m / 735 ft
30	MARQUE Sukhumvit	Bangkok	2017	223 m / 730 ft
31	Shangri-La Hotel Toronto	Toronto	2012	214 m / 702 ft
32	Golden Tower	Jeddah	2018	205 m / 673 ft
33	ÏCE Condominiums at York Centre 1	Toronto	2014	202 m / 664 ft
34	RBC Centre	Toronto	2009	185 m / 607 ft
35	ECB - European Central Bank	Frankfurt am Main	2014	184 m / 603 ft
36	250 West 55th Street	New York City	2013	183 m / 602 ft
37	Marina City I	Chicago	1964	179 m / 588 ft
37	Marina City II	Chicago	1964	179 m / 588 ft
39	IQ-Quarter Tower 2	Moscow	2016	178 m / 582 ft
40	Lodha Primero	Mumbai	2014	177 m / 581 ft
41	D2 Tower	Courbevoie	2014	171 m / 561 ft
42	Concordia Corporate	Nova Lima	2018	170 m / 556 ft
43	Grattacielo Intesa Sanpaolo	Turin	2015	166 m / 545 ft
44	Império das Ondas	Balneario Camboriu	2016	165 m / 541 ft
45	The Encore	New York City	2016	163 m / 533 ft
46	Foshan Opera Tower	Foshan	-	160 m / 525 ft
47	The Uptown Residences	Toronto	2011	158 m / 518 ft
48	Three Hundred	Toronto	2014	158 m / 518 ft
49	Helicon	San Pedro Garza García	2012	156 m / 512 ft
50	Dubai Frame	Dubai	2018	150 m / 492 ft
51	33 Arch Street	Boston	2004	149 m / 489 ft
52	One Park Tower	Mississauga	2008	142 m / 466 ft
53	Panorama Tower	Leipzig	1971	142 m / 466 ft
54	IQ-Quarter Tower 1	Moscow	2015	141 m / 463 ft
55	480 Washington Boulevard	Jersey City	2004	141 m / 461 ft
56	Rosewood Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	2013	140 m / 460 ft
57	Leader Tower	St. Petersburg	2012	140 m / 459 ft
58	WTorre Morumbi	São Paulo	2015	140 m / 459 ft
59	East Side Tower	Berlin	2021	140 m / 459 ft
60	Camargo Corporate North Tower	São Paulo	2015	139 m / 456 ft
60	Camargo Corporate South Tower	São Paulo	2016	139 m / 456 ft
62	Nextower	Frankfurt am Main	2009	136 m / 446 ft
63	Rochaverá Corporate Tower C	São Paulo	2012	134 m / 440 ft
64	Residence Inn New York Manhattan/Times Square	New York City	2006	133 m / 437 ft
65	Shirley Ryan AbilityLab	Chicago	2016	132 m / 431 ft
66	Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza	Houston	2007	131 m / 430 ft
67	Ocean Two Condominiums I	Sunny Isles Beach	2001	130 m / 426 ft
67	Ocean Two Condominiums II	Sunny Isles Beach	2001	130 m / 426 ft
69	Torre Z	São Paulo	2014	129 m / 422 ft
70	IQC Test Tower	Vinings	2021	128 m / 420 ft
71	B32	São Paulo	2020	126 m / 412 ft
72	Fifty South Sixth	Minneapolis	2001	123 m / 404 ft
73	Solistice	Mississauga	2008	121 m / 397 ft
74	Henninger Turm	Frankfurt am Main	1961	120 m / 394 ft
75	Nicholas Residences	Toronto	2014	117 m / 384 ft
76	The Milan Condominium	New York City	2005	116 m / 381 ft
77	RAK Tower	Ras al Khaimah	2014	114 m / 373 ft
78	Sede Localiza Hertz	Belo Horizonte	2017	113 m / 371 ft
79	K2 at K Station	Chicago	2013	112 m / 366 ft
80	Platinum XO	Toronto	2008	111 m / 364 ft
81	Ellipse West	Toronto	2004	110 m / 361 ft
82	Amorepacific Headquarters	Seoul	2017	110 m / 361 ft
83	SkyLight Tower A	Moscow	2012	109 m / 358 ft
83	SkyLight Tower B	Moscow	2012	109 m / 358 ft
85	10 Bellair	Toronto	2003	108 m / 353 ft
86	Three Alliance Center	Atlanta	2017	107 m / 351 ft
87	SLS Puerto Madero Torre 1	Buenos Aires	2019	105 m / 344 ft
87	SLS Puerto Madero Torre 2	Buenos Aires	2019	105 m / 344 ft
89	Hesperia Tower	L'Hospitalet de Llobregat	2006	105 m / 344 ft
90	35xv	New York City	2016	102 m / 334 ft
91	Kollhoff Tower	Berlin	1999	101 m / 331 ft
92	Radio City South	Toronto	2005	101 m / 331 ft
93	Edifício São Luís Gonzaga	São Paulo	2000	101 m / 331 ft
94	300 West 6th Street	Austin	2002	100 m / 328 ft
95	Jumeirah Frankfurt Hotel	Frankfurt am Main	2009	99 m / 325 ft
96	Millennium Tower	Amsterdam	2004	98 m / 320 ft
97	Dreischeibenhaus	Düsseldorf	1960	95 m / 311 ft
98	BS Design Corporate Towers	Fortaleza	2019	91 m / 299 ft
99	Transamerica Tower	Toronto	2004	90 m / 295 ft
100	The Residence of Avondale, South Tower	Toronto	2004	84 m / 276 ft
101	IQ-Quarter Tower 3	Moscow	2015	84 m / 274 ft
102	The Bernardin	Chicago	2005	83 m / 272 ft
103	NEO Bankside Building C	London	2013	83 m / 271 ft
104	The Residence of Avondale, North Tower	Toronto	2004	81 m / 266 ft
105	Mirante Lagoa Nova	Natal	2015	81 m / 265 ft
106	Rica Forum Hotel	Stavanger	2001	80 m / 262 ft
107	Svyatogor 1	Chelyabinsk	2008	79 m / 259 ft
108	Svyatogor 2	Chelyabinsk	2008	76 m / 249 ft
109	Pointe 400	St. Louis	1967	66 m / 216 ft
110	Scheepvaart en Transport College	Rotterdam	2005	65 m / 214 ft
111	NEO Bankside Building B	London	2011	61 m / 200 ft
112	Seattle Central Library	Seattle	2004	60 m / 196 ft
113	JNBY Headquarters Building C2	Hangzhou	2019	45 m / 148 ft
113	JNBY Headquarters Building D1-5	Hangzhou	2019	45 m / 148 ft
115	JNBY Headquarters Building E	Hangzhou	2019	42 m / 139 ft
116	NEO Bankside Building A	London	2011	41 m / 135 ft
116	NEO Bankside Building D	London	2012	41 m / 135 ft
118	JNBY Headquarters Building A1-2	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
118	JNBY Headquarters Building A3-4	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
118	JNBY Headquarters Building A5	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
118	JNBY Headquarters Building B1	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
118	JNBY Headquarters Building B2-3	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
118	JNBY Headquarters Building C1	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
118	JNBY Headquarters Building D6	Hangzhou	2019	38 m / 125 ft
125	The Forest	Asuncion	2021	- m / - ft
126	Campus Sud des Métiers	Nice	2021	- m / - ft
127	Business Headquarters (BHQ)	Vinings	2021	- m / - ft

Statistics

150 m+ Buildings

300 m+ Buildings

Average Building Age*

15 Years

Most Common Function*

Office (36%), 43 Buildings

Most Common Material*

Concrete (71%), 75 Buildings

* Based on 150 m+ buildings currently in the database.

Function
Material

Total: 121 Buildings for which a function has been assigned.

Total: 105 Buildings for which a material has been assigned.

*Based on 121 Completed & Under Construction Buildings

Building Completions Timeline

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01 June 2018 | Venice

Occupant Interior Transportation Routes Using MULTI

As part of the ongoing CTBUH research project, "A Study on the Design Possibilities Enabled by Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators", students created hypothetical projects that utilize...

31 May 2018 | Chicago

Liberating the Elevator from Ropes

MULTI – the world’s first and only rope-less, sideways-moving elevator – ushers in the end of the 160-year reign of rope-dependent elevators, harnessing the power...

30 October 2017 | Sydney

CTBUH Research: Design Possibilities Enabled by Rope-Less, Non-Vertical Elevators

During the CTBUH 2017 International Conference, held in Sydney, delegates who visited the CTBUH research booth were presented with an introductory video of questions being...

16 March 2017 | Chicago

Building Tall Skyscraper Lecture Series: How High Can We Go?

Thursday, March 16, 2017. Chicago, United States of America. Hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the first lecture of the series Building Tall...

16 March 2017 | Chicago

How High Can We Go? (Highlight)

Thursday, March 16, 2017. Chicago, United States of America. Hosted in collaboration with the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the first event in the Building Tall lecture...

18 October 2016 | Shenzhen

CTBUH 2016 China Conference - Panel,"Tall Buildings and Context: How High Can We Go and Why Should We?"

Tuesday, October 18, 2016. Shenzhen, China. Ron Klemencic, Magnusson Klemencic Associates; Karl Almstead, Turner Construction Company; Andrew Nicholson, CBRE; Jon Pickard, Pickard Chilton; Ian Smith,...

17 October 2016 | Shenzhen

The State of the Art (Technologies) Q&A

Monday, October 17, 2016. Shenzhen, China. David Malott, Kohn Pedersen Fox; Wai Ming (Thomas) Tsang, Fing An Financial Centre; Karl-Ott Schoellkopf, Thyssenkrupp, answer questions at...

17 October 2016 | Shenzhen

New Approaches for Efficient People Transportation in Both Dimensions – Vertically and Horizontally

The trend of growing cities with permanently increasing populations will require new and visionary solutions for mobility in urban areas. Moving people as we are...

27 October 2015 | New York City

2015 New York Conference - Session 4d - Q&A

Markus Jetter & Stefan Gerstenmeyer, thyssenkrupp; Shelley Finnigan, ArcelorMittal; John Mizon, Schindler, answer questions at the end of 2015 New York Conference Session 4d: Technological...

27 October 2015 | New York City

A Next Generation Vertical Transportation System

The world’s first rope-free passenger elevator system for high-rise applications enables the building industry to face the challenges of global urbanization. This presentation presents the...

Research

30 January 2020

From “Tech Miracle” to Evolutionary Change

Michael Cesarz, MULTI thyssenkrupp Elevator

The potential of ropeless elevators to change the way we experience urban space has been addressed by two research projects conducted by CTBUH and funded...

17 October 2016

New Approaches for Efficient People Transportation in Both Dimensions – Vertically and Horizontally

Karl-Otto Schoellkopf & Joerg Mueller, thyssenkrupp Elevator

The trend of growing cities with permanently increasing populations will require new and visionary solutions for mobility in urban areas. Moving people as we are...

26 October 2015

A Next Generation Vertical Transportation System

Markus Jetter & Stefan Gerstenmeyer, ThyssenKrupp

The world’s first rope-free passenger elevator system for high-rise applications enables the building industry to face the challenges of global urbanization. MULTI represents the realization...

16 September 2014

Energy-Efficient Elevator Solutions for High-Rise Buildings

Patrick Bass, ThyssenKrupp

Maximizing capacity with smart and energy-efficient elevator solutions for the high-rise buildings of the world’s inaugural metropolitan century.

CTBUH Initiatives Involving thyssenkrupp

CTBUH Earmarks $85,000 to Support Research & Academic Programs

06 November 2018

During the CTBUH 2018 Middle East Conference, awards were conferred in relation to five CTBUH Research and Academic programs that will produce a number of important future outputs.