![]() ![]() The city also performs what's known as random "audit" inspections. And she said the Department of Buildings inspects every new elevator and modernization of an elevator in the entire city. "We do audits, we do go back out there and we do keep track of the ones that don't do it, because if they don't do it we file an enforcement action against them."īut Frydland said the city's eleven inspectors do perform other independent reviews of downtown elevators if people complain to 311. "It's not an honor system because they have to certify it, they have to do the annual inspection and they have to send us a report," explained Frydland. It's all to cut taxpayer spending and increase efficiency. It's called the Annual Inspection Certification Program, and includes several hundred high rises, all of the ones in the central business district, and others which may qualify outside of downtown. One of them failed, the other six were perfectly fine, the elevator came to a controlled stop a few floors below." So each one of the ropes can hold the elevator on its own, but there are seven ropes. "These elevators have a log of redundant features for safety. "The summary says that all the safety mechanisms that were supposed to work, worked," said Judy Frydland, Commissioner of the Department of Buildings. A hole had to be cut through a wall because the express elevator doesn't have an exit on each floor. Instead, the report says there was a "gradual lowering" from the 20th floor to the 11th floor before all six passengers were safely rescued. The I-Team obtained the final report, which says one of seven steel hoist ropes "broke," but that there was no "plunge" from the 95th floor. The initial accounts were unsettling widespread reports that Elevator Two at 875 North Michigan Avenue, formerly the Hancock Center, had "plunged" 84 floors in November of 2018. The I-Team learned what inspectors said really happened the night an elevator rope broke in the 100-story iconic skyscraper. The I-Team learned what inspectors said really happened the night an elevator rope broke in the 100-story iconic skyscraper.ĬHICAGO (WLS) - You may have been on one of those speedy elevators in the building formerly known as the John Hancock Center. ![]()
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