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Columbus Center Parking Garage

August 12, 2008 - 11:25am — mmase
Columbus Center Parking Garage
Project Overview: 
The Columbus Center Parking Garage is a seven-level, 207,000 square foot double helix parking garage that provides parking for approximately 640 cars. The elevated ramps and parking areas are constructed using one-way post-tensioned concrete slabs that are supported on post-tensioned concrete beams. The skin of the garage was designed to look like the building adjacent to the Christopher Columbus Center (creating an appearance of horizontal floors, not ramps).
McLaren's Role: 
The most challenging aspect of McLaren’s role involved coordinating a deep foundation system around existing concrete tie-backs that are used to support an existing bulkhead on the east side of the project. Since the existing tie-backs supported a bulkhead that was owned by Baltimore City, McLaren had to provide access at the grade level of the garage for construction equipment to be able to access and repair the tie-backs, if necessary. In addition to the existing tie-back system, the utilities had to be re-routed through the site to ensure that all required elements would fit.
Service: 
Structural Design
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Foundation Design
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Preliminary Design
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Final Design
Location: 
Baltimore, Maryland
Client: 
The Cordish Company
Project Type: 
Structural Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
2002-2003
Construction Cost: 
9,000,000
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Carlos Mosely Music Pavilion

August 12, 2008 - 11:02am — mmase
Carlos Mosely Music Pavilion
Project Overview: 
McLaren was retained to design the pavilion for the summer concert tour of the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera. This portable music pavilion features a fabric superstructure and hydraulically deployed articulated masts. The stage platform is constructed of orthotropic aluminum extrusion, and is also hydraulically deployed. The structure can be erected or dismantled in five hours.
McLaren's Role: 
McLaren provided structural and mechanical engineering services in the design of this special structure.
Service: 
Structural Design Services
Service: 
Mechanical Engineering
Location: 
New York, NY
Client: 
FTL Associates/FTL Happold
Project Type: 
Structural and Mechanical Design
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
2001
Construction Cost: 
3,000,000
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164 Kent Avenue, Waterfront Towers Design

August 12, 2008 - 10:22am — mmase
High-rise at 164 Kent Ave. (construction)
Project Overview: 
McLaren provided the foundation design and structural design of high-rise and low-rise structures for 164 Kent Avenue, a residential development on the Brooklyn waterfront. The project consists of two primary components, an inland block and a waterfront block, and will be completed in three phases. Phase 1 involves the development of the inland block which will include a 29 story residential tower with 218,356 square feet of town homes and condominiums. The waterfront block will be developed in Phases 2 and 3 and will consist of two residential towers with town homes at their base and condominiums on the remaining floors, as well as a parking garage.
McLaren's Role: 
One of the project’s highlights was to supervise wind tunnel testing of the tower models to determine design pressures for the structural and façade designs. Following the testing, McLaren designed the tower’s building frames for both strength and serviceability. McLaren also prepared early Foundation Bid Package.
Service: 
Building Structure Design
Service: 
Foundation Design
Service: 
Foundation Bid Package Preparation
Location: 
Brooklyn, NY
Client: 
RD Management
Project Type: 
Structural Engineering
Role: 
Prime
Contract Period: 
2005-2007
Construction Cost: 
500,000,000 (Est.)
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Bayonne Golf Club Clubhouse

August 3, 2008 - 10:46pm — mmase
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Project Overview: 
Situated on a former landfill site that borders the Upper New York Bay, the Bayonne Golf Club will feature an 18-hole golf course and two-story steel framed clubhouse. McLaren is providing the foundation design and structural design of the clubhouse that will have a total floor area of 35,000 square feet and will include a 12 foot basement level. The clubhouse showcases an 80 foot high round lighthouse structure that will be integrated into the design of the building. Foundation design services included the design of a mat foundation slab which mitigated the potential for differential settling due to the processed dredge material and organic fill present on the clubhouse site.
McLaren's Role: 
McLaren provided a comparative analysis of alternate framing schemes, assistance in developing the details for the façade system, which is autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC), and design of mat foundations. McLaren designed the clubhouse to be sufficiently stiff to prevent the formation of differentiated settlement cracks. Final construction documents and specifications were also prepared, while construction administration services were performed.
Service: 
Structuring
Service: 
Metal Testing
Service: 
Housing
Service: 
Architecture
Location: 
Bayonne, NJ
Client: 
Bergstol
Project Type: 
Structural redesign
Role: 
Sub-consultant
Contract Period: 
2005-2008
Construction Cost: 
19,000,000
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