LES brings together experts across the world from the field of vertical transportation. Speakers include industry experts, academics and post graduate students. All the abstracts for this year are listed on the next pages with some fascinating topics.

It is great to see new faces stepping up to present a paper.

The two-day event offers a unique opportunity for delegates to meet with and learn from leading experts from around the world – so far we have attendees from Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Spain, Turkey and the USA.

Our keynote speaker is Ruth Jones, Chief Executive of CIBSE. Her vision for CIBSE is a modern, exemplary, professional engineering institution that can respond to the needs of the building services community and she is passionate about collaboration.