KONE Corporation,
press release, July 30, 2018
KONE, a global leader in the elevator
and escalator industry, has won an order for the Caleido mixed-use
property in Madrid, Spain. The development covers over 70,000
square meters of floor space and includes a 36-story high-rise to
complement the four existing towers on the site.
Caleido will become Spain's first
educational tower, housing the Instituto de Empresa (IE) university
campus. Beneath it, a lower building that forms an inverted T, will
feature a Quirón Salud medical clinic specialized in preventive
medicine and sports, as well as commercial premises, restaurants
and large green zones.
KONE will equip the development with 18
KONE MiniSpace(TM) high-rise elevators traveling at maximum speeds
of up to 6 meters per second, 24 KONE MonoSpace® machine room-less
elevators, four KONE TranSys(TM) heavy-duty service elevators, and
four KONE TravelMaster(TM) 110 escalators.
KONE will also provide its advanced
people flow solutions to enable students, teachers, medical staff,
and visitors to move around the site smoothly, safely and
efficiently. These include the KONE Destination control system,
which optimizes elevator performance to minimize waiting times and
maximize convenience for building users. KONE Access will integrate
the buildings' doors seamlessly with the elevator system for secure
and efficient access management, and KONE InfoScreens will offer a
quick an easy way to deliver multimedia and web-based information
and guidance in the buildings.
"Caleido will be a melting-pot of
knowledge, culture, technology, health and leisure, gathering a
diverse mix of people and interests. Catering for their varied
needs for moving around the buildings efficiently and securely
requires careful planning. We are very excited to put the best of
our advanced technology to work to do just this!" says Pierre
Liautaud, executive vice president, KONE South Europe, Middle East
and Africa.
KONE will maintain the equipment in the
buildings with its intelligent KONE 24/7 Connected Services. KONE
24/7 Connected Services uses the IBM Internet of Things (IoT)
platform and other advanced technologies to improve equipment
performance, reliability and safety. It enables vast amounts of
data gathered by sensors connected to the elevators to be
monitored, analyzed and displayed in real time, leading to less
equipment downtime, fewer faults, and detailed information on
maintenance work.
The developer of Caleido is Espacio
Caleido, a joint venture between Inmobiliaria Espacio and Megaworld
Corporation. The architects are Fenwick & Iribarren and
Serrano-Suñer. The project is expected to be completed at the end
of 2020.
KONE booked the order in the second
quarter of 2018.
For further
information, please contact:
Hanna Rutanen, Senior Manager,
Communications, KONE Corporation, tel. +358 41 5071361. media@kone.com
Read
more:
About the Caleido project on the
following websites:
About KONE 24/7 Connected Services on
the campaign site: http://machineconversations.kone.com/
Previous press
releases are available at
http://www.kone.com/en/news-and-insights/releases/
including:
About
KONE
At KONE, our mission is to improve the
flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and
escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and
automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and
modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life
cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's
journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter
buildings. In 2017, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 8.9 billion,
and at the end of the year over 55,000 employees. KONE class B
shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.