High Rise Building Engineering
Engineering the Skyline
Building high rise structures (over 15 stories) presents unique challenges, such as managing wind and seismic forces, ensuring stability and safety at great heights, and optimizing vertical transportation systems. Our expertise in these areas allows us to address these complexities with confidence, utilizing cutting-edge technologies and best practices in structural engineering.
Tailored Structural Solutions for High Rise Projects
With a proven track record of successfully completing high rise projects, McLaren specializes in delivering premier structural engineering services for new construction projects, serving clients nationwide from commercial development in NYC to sky-high hotels in Maryland to mixed-use residential in Kansas City. Our seasoned team offers a comprehensive range of services, including full design capabilities and load rating. In seismic-prone areas, our engineers employ base isolators, shear walls, and damping systems to counteract lateral forces from earthquakes, ensuring robustness and occupant safety.
Combining Innovation, Safety, and Aesthetics in High Rise Design
By utilizing cutting-edge technologies and best practices, our structures team is an industry leader, committed to delivering robust, cost-effective, and aesthetically pleasing high rise buildings that meet the highest standards of performance and safety.
High Rise New Construction
Experience + Expertise
Insight Into
Wind-Induced Vibrations + Lateral Building Drift
Brad Fallon, PE
Senior Associate
…To assess a building’s response to wind loads, we consider factors like its shape, height, and location. We work in our digital analysis environment to predict likely wind scenarios the building might encounter during it’s lifespan and use the behavior we observe in the modeling environment to propose economical lateral stability systems that minimize the risk to these building systems and occupant discomfort.
