Supertall buildings call for creative vertical transportation strategies. Hitachi Ltd. and its Hitachi Elevator Co. Ltd. division have annouced that they will build and install 95 elevators—including ...

More: Learn how to survive a plummeting elevator. We live in a vertical world. Despite suburban sprawl, most of Earth's population is packed into cities that have nowhere to go but up. With ...

The Burj Khalifa, which stands at 828 meters tall, is the tallest building in the world and is owned by Emaar Properties, the Dubai real estate development company founded by Mohamed Alabbar, an ...