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A leading full-service engineering firm renowned for our trusted, high quality, and innovative approach to solving complex challenges.
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Theaters + Performing Arts Centers

McLaren’s entertainment engineers possess a distinct eye for aesthetics, user interface, and a specialized understanding of the full building life-cycle. Our expert multidisciplinary team specializes in all aspects of structural design, engineering, inspection, theatrical rigging, show elements, and theming with hundreds of theaters, stages, and performing arts centers (PAC) in our portfolio.

A unique blend of imaginative artistry and cutting-edge technical capabilities enable our structural and mechanical engineers to support performance spaces off all sizes from pop-up stages and Broadway shows, to iconic stadium concerts.

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Theater + Performing Arts Center
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Bill Gorlin, McLaren's Vice President of Entertainment Engineering, as a guest on the StageLync Podcast

How Math, Science, and Engineering Bring Broadway Shows to Life, A Podcast

"There was a lot of theater construction in the 1920s, right after World War I ended, and people were thrilled at the time. There was money, and many theaters were constructed all over the country...Flash forward to the modern era, and it’s a real challenge to keep shows relevant to a modern audience in these old antique theaters...We’ve developed methods for gathering information from these old theaters and working with the owners or productions to find ways around the limitations or to incrementally increase them."

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