This is an update about our past and more recent activities and developments in research and innovation to generate new knowledge in the area of lift/escalator and related technologies.

In 2011 the University of Northampton, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Lifts Group and the Lift and Escalator Industry Association (LEIA) started a conference series, the annual Symposium on Lift and Escalator Technologies. This international conference, together with associated events and activities, is managed by The Lift and Escalator Symposium Educational Trust.

The aim is to advance research, innovation and education in lifts and escalator and related technologies.

The conference is currently in its 14th edition and has grown to become an important discussion forum which every year brings together over 130 industrial and academic experts from within the field of vertical transportation engineering. The symposium papers are published in the conference proceedings, which

are indexed in Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed technical literature.

The papers are also available on-line on the resources pages of the symposium website.