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Old Posted Jan 23, 2022, 11:41 PM
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Originally Posted by The North One View Post
What is the point of this? besides granting the ability to make even more ridiculous designs that modern architecture seems to love so much.
Do you know how much space elevators take up in modern skyscrapers?
But besides that, there are capacity and speed improvements because a single elevator car no longer takes up an entire elevator shaft and can now share it with several elevator cars.
Thyssenkrupp (at least when they still owned their elevator division) also claimed energy savings because of it.
also from you " What is the point of this? *Inserts completely valid point of this system* "
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