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During the 2007 Holiday season, McLaren engineered a one-story, temporary structure that was used as a holiday display facility. Bank of America helped shoppers ring in the season by erecting a 3,500-square-foot gift-box-shaped structure on 36th Street and Fifth Avenue to serve to as the platform for the bank’s promotion of its BankAmericard brand.

McLaren Engineering Group was hired by PRG-Scenic Technologies of New Windsor, NY, to engineer a new mechanized sculpture for Harrah’s Atlantic City casino.

Blue Man Group opened its newest production on June 6, 2007 at Universal Studios in Orlando. McLaren’s New York and Orlando offices collaborated to provide structural engineering services, evaluating overhead rigging and the stage assembly for the production in a converted production studio building. McLaren also visited the site before and during construction, and evaluated fall protection supports for the construction.

McLaren Engineering’s latest exciting project can be seen on MTV’s newest reality show. “Band in a Bubble” began airing Thursday May 24th. For 20 days “Cartel,” an up-and-coming band from Georgia, lived inside a 2,000-square-foot transparent bubble on Hudson River Park's Pier 54 in New York City. While in the bubble, the band wrote and recorded their latest album, which they performed live on the pier June 12th.

On July 6, Beyoncè will start the North American leg of her 2007 world tour. McLaren’s engineering is prominently featured during her high-energy performance.

McLaren Engineering Group worked in conjunction with Tait Towers on the major concert staging effects. McLaren engineers helped develop the one-of-a-kind hydraulic platform lift, and evaluated the main performance platforms, rolling band risers, and rolling and pantograph stair units.