<p><span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 24px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;">Repair and replacement of existing elevators and elevator equipment in various buildings base wide. The work includes HVAC, Plumbing, Fire Protection, Electrical and General Construction as required by current building and elevator codes. New finishes shall be provided within the elevator cabs and doorways.</span></p>
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<div class="magnify"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Renaissance&nbsp;villas&nbsp;such as&nbsp;Villa Rotonda&nbsp;near&nbsp;Vicenza&nbsp;were an inspiration for many later mansions, especially during the&nbsp;industrialisation.</span></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Following the fall of Rome the practice of building unfortified villas ceased. Today, the oldest inhabited mansions around the world usually began their existence as fortified&nbsp;castles&nbsp;in the&nbsp;middle ages. As social conditions slowly changed and stabilised&nbsp;fortifications&nbsp;were able to be reduced, and over the centuries gave way to comfort. It became fashionable and possible for homes to be beautiful rather than grim and forbidding allowing for the development of the modern mansion.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">In British English a&nbsp;<strong>mansion block</strong>&nbsp;refers to a block of flats or&nbsp;apartments&nbsp;designed for the appearance of grandeur. In many parts of Asia, including Hong Kong and Japan, the word mansion also refers to a block of apartments.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">In Europe, from the 15th century onwards, a combination of politics and advancements in modern weaponry negated the need for the aristocracy to live in fortified castles. As a result, many were transformed into mansions without defences or demolished and rebuilt in a more modern, undefended style. Due to intermarriage and primogeniture inheritance amongst the aristocracy, it became common for one noble to often own several country houses. These would be visited rotationally throughout the year as their owner pursued the social and sporting circuit from country home to country home.&nbsp;Many owners of a country house would also own a town mansion in their country's capital city. These town mansions were referred to as 'houses' in London, hotels in Paris and palaces in most European cities elsewhere. It might be noted that sometimes the house of a clergyman was called a "mansion house"</span></p>
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