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  2. List of tallest educational buildings - Wikipedia

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    School City Country Height (m) Height (ft) Floors Year District Notes Source 1 Main Building: Lomonosov Moscow State University: Moscow: Russia: 240 m 787 ft 36 1953 Ramenki: The tallest educational-use building in the world. [1] 2 Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower: Multiple Tokyo: Japan: 204 m 668 ft 50 2008 Nishi-Shinjuku: 17th-tallest Tokyo building ...

  3. Escalator school - Wikipedia

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    An escalator school (エスカレーター学校, esukareitā gakkō) [1] (also esukareitā kō (エスカレーター校) and esukareita kō (エスカレータ校)) [2] is an educational school that offers education from elementary or middle (or even from the kindergarten) until university.

  4. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    The invention of the elevator was a precondition for the invention of skyscrapers, given that most people would not (or could not) climb more than a few flights of stairs at a time. The elevators in a skyscraper are not simply a necessary utility like running water and electricity, but are in fact closely related to the design of the whole ...

  5. List of visionary tall buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of buildings and other structures that have been envisioned. The X-Seed 4000 is one of the tallest structures ever conceived. Shown in this image is the Burj Khalifa (828 m (2,717 ft)), tallest structure in the world at the time of completion in 2010 to this year (2025), and the X-Seed 4000 project (4,000 m (13,000 ft)).

  6. List of elevator test towers - Wikipedia

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    Height Year completed Remarks KONE High-Rise Test Tower (Underground) [1] Kone: Tytyri, Finland: 1,148 ft (350 m) 1997 One of Kone's major achievements in elevator technology was tested at this facility. 1 H1 Tower [2] Hitachi: Guangzhou, China: 897 ft (273 m) 2020 Became the tallest elevator test tower when completed in January 2020 2 Jauhar ...

  7. Lift Upgrading Programme - Wikipedia

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    Prevent closing of elevator doors when passengers approach, stand near or at the door edge, even from a flat angle. 2.5 cm from elevator cabin. 3.0 cm from elevator lobby. 50 cm for door horizontal sensing. 1.8 m for door vertical sensing. Should not fail if any fail-safe related to safety device fails.

  8. Mechanical floor - Wikipedia

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    Because they use up valuable floor area (just like elevator shafts), engineers try to minimize the number of mechanical floors while allowing for sufficient redundancy in the services they provide. As a rule of thumb, skyscrapers require a mechanical floor for every 10 tenant floors (10%), although this percentage can vary widely (see examples ...

  9. Lift slab construction - Wikipedia

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    The building located at 2150 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, CA (or First Savings Building) is one example of lift slab construction utilized in the Bay Area in the mid-twentieth century. Built in 1969, the First Savings Building utilizes lift slab construction to support the fourteen story height of the building. [ 5 ]