The Saint Paul Condo Blog

The Pointe of St Paul is more than half way complete with the elevator modernization, and I must say, they turned out great!  The run at about 450 feet per second, compared to 300fps with the old ones (these will give City Walk's elevators a run for their money!).  The company working on the modernization estimates that all three will be up and running by July.

There was a little bit of a tough spot when the building was running one old elevator and one new one.  As a resident of the Pointe, it was hell.  It was like we really only had one elevator, as both would respond to hall calls, regardless if the other elevator car has already been there.  But the pain was worth it, with the two new elevators, it's like we have our old three back.  The new ones "learn" the behavior of the building, and will adjust where they park.  Are old ones where on a program that called the car idling the longest (not the closest).  Also, with the new elevators, they recalculate which car can get to the call fastest 7 times a second.  The old system had a one track mind.