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City Center Mall, Mixed-Use Retail and Residential Facilities

September 3, 2008 - 12:56pm — J. Castellano
City Center Mall, White Plains, NY
Project Overview: 
The City Center Mall project is a mixed-use high-rise retail and residential facility at the former Macy's Department Store in downtown White Plains, New York. Three 35-story residential buildings were also designed at this location encompassing 727,900 square feet. A municipal parking garage was included providing both below and above grade parking, and a garage core encompassing 767,000 square feet.
McLaren's Role: 
McLaren provided foundation and structural design for retail areas, loading docks, and below-grade parking. Within the retail space are the White Plains Performing Arts Center and a multiplex cinema with an IMAX Theater. The PAC includes a 400-seat theater with stadium seating, overhead pipe grids and catwalks, and mezzanine for storage, lighting and lobby. McLaren was involved with design of sloped raker beams and light gage framing that supports stadium seating; reinforcement of existing steel framing to support new theater loads; structural support for box booms, lighting equipment, and other theater features; and coordination with architect and theater consultant on layout and structural requirements for theater features.
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Foundation Engineering
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Structural Engineering
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Construction Administration
Location: 
White Plains, NY
Client: 
Cappelli Development Group
Project Type: 
Structural Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
2001-2003
Construction Cost: 
300,000,000
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Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel and Convention Center

September 3, 2008 - 12:38pm — J. Castellano
Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore
Project Overview: 
McLaren was chosen to provide engineering services for the Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor Hotel and Convention Center. The Hotel was designed and constructed in two separate phases. The original phase consisted of a 12-story hotel tower and a one-story steel frame low-rise that housed the convention facilities. The second phase consisted of another 12-story hotel tower and a two-story concrete frame low-rise that housed additional convention facilities in both phases.
McLaren's Role: 
Phase I required long clear spans to accommodate large meeting rooms and banquet facilities. Phase II required a framed ballroom floor, which necessitated heavy post-tensioned concrete beams and floor slabs to accommodate impact loads produced by ballroom activities (dancing). In addition, Phase II employed the use of post-tensioned concrete transfer girders, which clear spanned the ballroom and supported the hotel tower above. Hotel towers for both Phases were constructed from post-tensioned concrete flat plates supported on reinforced concrete columns and shear walls. The lower levels (street level) are reinforced concrete flat plates.
Service: 
Structural and Foundation Engineering
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Schematic Design
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Design Development
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Construction Documents
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Construction Administration
Location: 
Baltimore, Maryland
Client: 
Cochran, Stephenson & Donkervoet, Inc.
Project Type: 
Structural Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
N/A
Construction Cost: 
N/A

Charles Center Place Residential Housing

September 3, 2008 - 12:29pm — J. Castellano
Charles Center Place, Baltimore
Project Overview: 
Park Charles is a 32-story irregular-shaped building that contains five levels of underground parking (160,000 s.f.), five levels of office facilities (151,000 s.f.), 21 stories of residential housing (340,000 s.f.), and a mechanical penthouse totaling approximately 651,000 square feet of mixed-use space. It is bound on all sides by existing construction; Mies van der Rohe’s One Charles Center and The Fidelity Building on the east, Liberty Street on the west, Charles Center Plaza on the south, and Two Charles Center on the north.
McLaren's Role: 
McLaren provided design of the structural systems of the building, including foundations; pressure injected piles and auger cast piles; sheeting and shoring; concrete foundation walls; and the superstructure. The firm was also involved with design of reinforced concrete flat plate on the office levels, two-way post-tensioned slab on the residental levels, and exterior wall support.
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Structural and Foundation Engineering
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Schematic Design
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Design Development
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Construction Documents
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Construction Administration
Location: 
Baltimore, Maryland
Client: 
Shelter Development Corporation
Project Type: 
Structural Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
N/A
Construction Cost: 
N/A
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Wynn Casino, Las Vegas - Special Structures

August 27, 2008 - 11:45am — J. Castellano
Wynn Casino Las Vegas
Project Overview: 
The new Wynn Las Vegas Hotel and Casino contains striking architectural features, some of which McLaren helped design. A public space centerpiece features an atrium with eighteen unique, colorful “parasol” styled hanging elements. These elements rise and lower very slowly to create an ever-changing visual effect highlighted by sunlight through a large, adjacent glass wall. Another notable feature is a large porte cochere at the north side of the building.
McLaren's Role: 
McLaren provided structural engineering services for the framing and overhead rigging schemes of the parasol elements, and for the curved polycarbonate lighting panels with its steel framing that surround the chandelier at the north porte cochere. McLaren engineers worked closely with the contractor to develop the fabrication and construction techniques and conducted a shop visit to view the fabrication progress.
Service: 
Structural Engineering (Special Structures)
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Fabrication Inspection
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Complex 3D Analytical Modeling
Location: 
Las Vegas, NV
Client: 
Wynn Las Vegas
Project Type: 
Special Structure Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
2004-2005
Construction Cost: 
N/A
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Stevens Institute of Technology

August 27, 2008 - 8:42am — J. Castellano
Stevens Institute of Technology
Project Overview: 
McLaren provided structural engineering services associated with the design of a new six-story academic building spanning 90,000 square feet. The new School of Technology Management was constructed using a moment-resisting steel framing system designed to resist both gravity and lateral forces. The floor deck consists of lightweight concrete slab over galvanized metal deck supported by composite steel beams and girders.
McLaren's Role: 
As structural engineer, McLaren was provided structural engineering and design of the steel framing and concrete floor deck.
Service: 
Structural Engineering
Location: 
Hoboken, NJ
Client: 
Stevens Institute of Technology
Project Type: 
Educational Building Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
2000-2003
Construction Cost: 
24,000,000
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