WHO WE ARE

The International Association of Elevator Engineers, IAEE as established on the 20th February 1986 in Nice, France, during the first General Assembly.

The rapid growth of the building industry and associated technologies demands parallel growth in the field of vertical transportation. Both the freight and passenger elevator industry need qualified engineers in the field whose knowledge keeps pace with technological and scientific developments.

The International Association of Elevator Engineers (IAEE) will provide a forum for the exchange of information and experience vital for training and education.

IAEE OFFICIAL MEMBERS

IAEE OFFICIALS

John Inglis OAM
IAEE President Emeritus, Australia
John Inglis OAM has been involved in all aspects of the lift industry for eighty years, his technical training was carried out at Sydney Technical College.  He has been a member of the Australian Elevator Association Technical committee for over thirty years and during the same period has been a member ot the Standards Australia ME/4 committee for Lifts. John Inglis is chairman of several sub-committees for the lift standards and also represents Australia on the ISO TC178 committee and WG-4 and WG-6. Since 1986 he has been a member of IAEE and during recent years he has been a member of the Executive Board of IAEE and regional coordinator for the Pacific region, in October 1998 he was appointed Chairman of IAEE. John Inglis has presented paper at all ELEVCON congresses since 1988 and in recent years has concentrated on the evolution of aspects of the lift industry.

Dr. Albert So
Executive Committee Member & Scientific Advisor
Albert So obtained BSc(Eng), MPhil and PhD, all in electrical engineering from The University of Hong Kong.  He had been with the HK Government, City University of Hong Kong, and Johnson Controls (Asia) and is now Director of Asian Institute of Built Environment, and Honorary Visiting Professor of the School of Arts, Science and Technology of University of Northampton in the area of elevator engineering.  Dr. So is one founder of IAEE (HK-China Branch).  Since 1996, he has been a member of the Board of Executives of IAEE and since 1998, he has been appointed the Scientific Advisor of IAEE.  He is a Chartered Engineer of the U.K. and a fellow of various institutions, including CIBSE, IMechE and SOE.  His main interests are in the research of traffic analysis and energy saving drives and has published over 40 papers in journals and conference proceedings.

Bob Nicholson ( Seattle , USA)
Executive Committee Member

Bob Nicholson is the founder of Architectural Elevator Consulting, LLC (AEC). Bob is a 30-year veteran of the architectural services industry and award-winning specialist in elevator modernization, he serves as President and Lead Consultant for the firm.

Sefa Targit
Executive Committee Member & Chairman of IAEE Turkey Branch. Vice President – MAKFED Turkish Machinery Federation
He is graduated from the Division of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University.  After graduation in 1982, he worked as the mechanical installations engineer in various construction projects and in 1992, he joined Asray and thus, the manufacturers side of the Lift Industry. He is currently a shareholder and the General Manager of ASRAY. Mr. Targıt was the president of AYSAD (Turkish Elevator and Escalator Association) between 2006 and 2016. He has worked in Industrial associations for many years. Mr. Targit has been elected as the president of SEDEFED (Federation of Industrial Associations of Turkey) for the 2013 and 2016 period.

As of 2017, he is a member of :
·   TURKONFED (Turkish Enterprise and Business Confederation) Board of Directors; Vice President.
·   SEDEFED (Federation of Industrial Associations Turkey) Board of Directors;
·   MAKFED (Turkish Machinery Federation) Board of Directors;
·   TOBB (Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey) Machinery Assemble;
·   IAEE (The International Association of Elevator Engineers) Executive Committee;
·   MMO (Chamber of Mechanical Engineers, Turkey);

IAEE Regional Coordinators 

Mr. Stephen H.S. Kuok
Chairman of IAEE (HK-China Branch)
H S Kuok has been a member of the IAEE since 1991 and is a founder-member of the IAEE (HK Branch).  In 1993, he was elected as the Steering Committee Member of the Branch.  He is currently the Chairman and the Hong Kong Regional Coordinator of the IAEE (HK-China Branch).  Moreover, he is the President of the Lift and Escalator Contractors Association (LECA), the Vice President of the Hong Kong Federation of Electrical and Mechanical Contractors Limited (HKFEMC), a member of the Lift and Escalator Safety Advisory Committee as well as the Examination Committee of EMSD, HK SAR Government for registration of lift engineers and escalator engineers.  Mr. Kuok was a graduate in Electrical Engineering and has been a Registered Lift and Escalator Engineer and Contractor in Hong Kong since early 70’s.  He joined the Chevalier Group in 1972 and is currently the Co-Chairman and Managing Director of Chevalier International Holdings Limited.  Mr. Kuok is devoted to encourage higher professional standards by delivering papers in global elevator conferences.

IAEE HK China Branch
Mr. Stephen H.S. Kuok
and Dr. Albert P.T.So
Fax ++852 27951014;
Fax ++ 852 2788 4698,
E-mail; alberttpso@gmail.com

IAEE Turkey
Mr. Sefa Targit
E-mail: stargit@asray.com

 

Mr. Tak Mathews – India
TAK Mathews, principal consultant with TAK Consulting, has close to 3 decades experience in the construction and vertical transportation industry. His exposure extends to all aspects of the vertical transportation industry covering projects and construction, service and modernization and planning and sales of elevators and escalators. Mathews is a representative on the P-4 panel of the ET25 committee constituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards for rewriting the Elevator & Escalators Codes. He is the Convener of the Panel for Installation of Lifts and Escalators, CED 46:P16 of the National Building Codes of India. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers (FIE). Mathews has done his engineering from the University of Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), MBA from the Birla Institute of Technology (India). He is also an alumnus of IMD, Lausanne (Switzerland).
Mathews is the founder Editor of Elevator World India and the co-founder of the Elevator & Escalator Safety Trust (EEST), a nonprofit entity set up with the objective of training users on safe practices while using elevators, escalators and moving walks.

 

IAEE Australia
Mr. John Inglis
Mobile ++ 61 2 414845911
E-mail: john@amron.com.au

In Memorandum

Eng. Ami Lustig

Engineer Ami Lustig was born in Israel in 1950, and it was clear from the age of six – when he would accompany his father Simcha to the office of ESL, the leading elevator consultants in Israel – which his future lay in the elevator industry!

After graduating from the engineering faculty of Tel Aviv University in 1977, he joined ESL full time, and over the years he became involved in the most prestigious projects both in Israel and internationally.

Ami was also an active member of the ISO/TC178 Plenary Committee on Lifts, Escalators and Moving Walks, as well as several ISO working groups, Standards Institution of Israel committees and chairman of the Intelligent Building International Steering Committee.  During this time, he published a great number of papers of various aspects of vertical transportation technologies.

In 1985 Ami also played a pivotal role in the establishment of IAEE – the International Association of Elevator Engineers, which aimed to define vertical transportation engineering as a specialized profession, promoting scientific and technological expertise specific to the industry.  From 2000, he served as chairman of IAEE’s congress Elevcon, and in 2014 Ami was appointed president of IAEE.

One of Ami’s greatest professional contributions was to create a blueprint for the integration of the vertical transportation systems within the broader concept and design of the architect’s vision.

Ami was beloved and respected both personally and professionally. Ami passed away in November 2021 and is survived by his wife of forty-five years, two children and two grandchildren.

 

Mr. Joseph Stier

International Association of Elevator Engineers and its accompanying congress Elevcon.  Since 1986 it has served the vertical transportation industry, holding international events every two years.

Joseph was a man of many and various gifts.  His father Oscar was a painter, and although Joseph showed talent as a young man, he preferred to play chess, collect stamps and even playing bass guitar in a rock band while he was at university, where he was studying math and physics.

However, after graduating, he was drawn to the world of advertising where he could develop his unique combination of persuasion and pragmatism.  He went on to establish the leading exhibition company in Israel, creating original events for many industries and professions which continue to this day.

Always looking to challenge himself, Joseph conceived the innovative idea of an association and congress specifically representing elevator engineers.  He sought out the most prominent personalities in the field, gathered them together and launched this revolutionary concept.  No longer would vertical transportation be relegated to a second-class engineering subset.  Hundreds of specialists joined the Association, coming together to share their knowledge and experience.

Other events have copied Elevcon, but the pioneer was Joseph Stier, who will be very much missed. His son Gil intends to continue his father’s legacy, and looks forward to the international co-operation which Joseph nurtured and enjoyed.