Entertainment Engineering Firm
With a reputation for visionary entertainment engineering and design, McLaren offers a unique blend of imaginative artistry and cutting-edge technical capabilities. For over 40 years, our firm has been leading the entertainment industry with expert structural engineers, mechanical engineers and entertainment specialists.
We have helped create some of the best productions, events, concerts, displays, staging and entertainment facilities worldwide. Working with the biggest names in the business, our iconic work has revolutionized the audience experience with never-before-seen feats of engineering.
Our Arts + Entertainment Services
- Live Entertainment Engineering
- Entertainment Facility Structural Engineering
- Rigging, Staging & Show Action Machinery
- Architectural Theming
- Theme Park Engineering
- Signage & Displays
Live Entertainment Engineering
McLaren is behind some of the most epic concert stages, Broadway shows, aerial performances and pop-up events. Our live entertainment engineering is best known for never-before-seen production designs that utilize innovative staging, unique mechanized effects, and the design of mind-blowing, custom structures. As a result, audience experience around the globe has soared to new heights.
Entertainment Facility Structural Engineering
McLaren’s entertainment and structural engineers possess a distinct eye for aesthetics, user interface and a specialized understanding of the full building life-cycle. Our expert team is skilled in all aspects of structural design, engineering, inspection and construction engineering services. The hundreds of entertainment facilities in our portfolio include awe-inspiring structural design of theaters, event spaces, entertainment venues, museums, performing art centers, hotels, casinos and aquariums.
Rigging, Staging + Show Action Machinery
From Broadway productions and live performances, to iconic concert tours for artists like Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga, our entertainment engineers have been collaborating with clients to create adrenaline pumping shows worldwide. With a blend of ultramodern technical capabilities and creative artistic insight, McLaren has produced custom rigging, staging, kinetic elements and show action machinery for the biggest projects in the industry.
Architectural Theming
We are experts at creating interactive themed experiences to engage and dazzle audiences. As a result, McLaren has been turning larger-than-life concepts into stunning reality. The process of engineering in a creative space challenges our entertainment engineers and staff to push technical limits without compromising safety or aesthetics. We redefine boundaries to provide advanced functionality, service and design—all while honoring our clients’ vision.
Theme Park Engineering
Today’s patrons demand a fully immersive theme parks with rides, attractions, concession stands and event spaces. From concept and design, to continuous support through fabrication and installation, our multi-disciplinary team meticulously engineers parks to magnify the guest experience. McLaren specializes in ride show engineering, theming engineering, show staging, facility engineering, technical design and mechanical engineering to create some of the world’s most iconic attractions from Orlando to Macau.
- Themed Environment Engineering
- Show Action Equipment
- Animatronics
- Queuing & Line Systems
- Facilities, Marine & Site Engineering
- Machinery Design & Engineering
- Amusement Rides & Devices
Signage + Displays
From fully immersive displays to LED signage and custom exhibits, we provide clients with cutting-edge design, entertainment engineering and expertise. Our team offers innovative solutions to engage audiences and viewers with superior project specific systems of every size, shape and complexity. McLaren specializes in modular assemblies, as well as custom, moving video displays that change position and form.
- Video Signage & Billboards
- Video Walls
- Museum, Aquarium and Zoo - Exhibits & Displays
- Public Space and Office - Exhibits & Displays
- Temporary Structures
- Rigging
- Mechanized Displays
Featured Entertainment Projects
McLaren’s entertainment engineering team has successfully undertaken hundreds of innovative projects for clients worldwide. From NYC to Asia, and everywhere in between, our work spans from over-the-top production design to masterfully engineered structures. Discover some of our most iconic entertainment work.
SPECIALISTS
structural, mechanical + entertainment
TEAM CONTACT
William Gorlin, PE, SE
Vice President – Entertainment
William Gorlin is the driving force behind the firm’s flourishing entertainment division. Through his 35-year career, he has engineered and overseen thousands of projects. His expertise spans show action equipment, stage sets, theatrical rigging, entertainment venues, roller coasters and architectural theming.
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Construction Engineering
Ranging from temporary shoring, cranes and rigging needed to fly an event, or a renovation of a historic theater or a new state-of-the-art experience, McLaren’s construction engineering services include specialty structural engineering, etc.
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Structural Engineering
Services encompass all aspects of structural inspection, consultation, design, and engineering for over 6000 structures including new construction, renovations and restorations, additions, specialty structures and signage.
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Marine Engineering
Whether it is inspecting a pier for an upcoming waterfront concert series, or creating a floating immersive experience, or developing a ferry service landing for crowd control and access. McLaren’s Marine Engineering team knows the code to get the job done right.
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Survey + Mapping
Geomatics lays a central role in the planning of any type of site or structure. Our high-tech services include lidar/laser scanning, core wall survey, drone mapping, construction surveys, boundary, and topographic surveys.
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