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New Ferry Services Considered for Hudson County
The Hudson County Division of Planning is conducting a study of six different proposals to add ferry service to and from the area in order to alleviate the county’s congested roads and trains. Potential sites include Newark Bay in Bayonne, the Bayfront redevelopment site on the Hackensack River in Jersey City, South Harrison (which sits upon the Passaic River), South Kearny (mostly on the Hackensack River), and locations on the Hudson River in Hoboken and West New York.
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Specifying Columns in Computer Analysis + Design of Steel Frames
A new thought-provoking whitepaper by Muangsangop Seniwongse, Ph.D., P.E., CPEng, M.ASCE, Lead Technical Marine Specialist at McLaren has been published by ASCE rethinking the specification of fixed-base and/or pinned-base columns in computer analysis and the design of steel frames.
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McLaren Entrepreneur of the Year
Over the years, his out-of-the-box thinking, passion for innovation, and technical excellence quickly launched a well-diversified and ever-growing engineering giant.
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Civil Engineering Entrepreneur of the Year Award Goes to Malcolm McLaren
“I started McLaren Engineering Group when I was 25 years old with a slide rule in one hand and a shovel in the other,” said McLaren. “Four decades later… I am very pleased that this spirit has been captured by our next generation of leaders at McLaren.”
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What a Post-COVID World Means for Construction & Engineering
Post-COVID Healthcare Facilities: Re-engineering Space – President of McLaren Engineering Group, Jeremy Billig, says facilities must become more flexible if they are going to handle wild swings in patient volume.
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McLaren President + VP Both Inducted Into The Moles
McLaren Engineering Group, the full-service engineering firm, announced today that company President, Jeremy Billig, PE and Marine Division Vice President, Stephen Famularo, PE were both admitted as new members to The Moles, a prestigious nationwide organization composed of select leaders at the forefront of the heavy construction industry.
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Health Construction Speeds Need to Pick Up Post-COVID-19, CO Panelists Say
The coronavirus pandemic caused massive upheaval and strain on the healthcare industry, with hospitals around New York City scrambling to open up temporary spaces to deal with the surge of COVID-19 patients.
Organizations have started to rethink future designs of healthcare facilities to better equip them to handle potential future pandemics. And one thing seems clear, timelines for construction projects need to quicken.
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NYC Healthcare Engineering Post COVID
Jeremy Billig, PEPresident COVID-19 accelerated the trending move to bring high-quality healthcare from hospitals directly to underserved parts of the community and into patient homes. As such, it hurried the adaptation of emerging technology and interoperability initiatives like telehealth. The pandemic also solidified the necessity of trends like community based-outpatient models of value healthcare and […]
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Monumental Stairs Vibration Serviceability
Monumental stairs are a major architectural feature in high-end designs of all types of commercial, institutional, and residential/mixed-use developments. As designers continue to push the envelope of material properties, producing ever-more beautifully complex, slender, and awe-inspiring forms, the tendency of these forms to resonate (or vibrate) in response to human activity, is becoming an increasing concern. As a result, mitigation of vibration issues has become a primary driver of the structural design of stair systems in many cases.
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Public Review and Comment Period Open for Grassy Point Road Bridge in Haverstraw
McLaren is working on the federally funded $2 million project that will completely replace the existing bridge with a modern structure capable of carrying all legal loads. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, project plans are available for public review online.
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