Langan Jersey City Experience

Langan provides an integrated mix of engineering and environmental consulting services in support of land development projects, corporate real estate portfolios, and the energy industry. Our clients include developers, property owners, public agencies, corporations, institutions, and energy companies around the world.  Founded in 1970, Langan employs over 1,300 professionals in its Parsippany, NJ headquarters and among 36 regional offices.

Langan is a key player in the renaissance of Jersey City. We are a go-to consultant for a variety of developers, architects, and other design/construction partners who count on Langan for expertise and knowledge related to the complex permitting processes and challenging subsurface conditions that impact any project in Jersey City.  Langan has completed over 800 project in Jersey City since 1970.

Hudson Greene (77 Hudson Street)

OVERVIEW
Langan provided a full range of design and engineering services for the construction of two 48-story residential towers at the core of Jersey City's Colgate Waterfront Redevelopment Area. This joint venture development features retail space, 900 luxury residential units, and a rooftop garden on top of a 10-story parking deck.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Clients
K. Hovnanian Companies
Equity Residential Properties

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Environmental
Traffic & Transportation
Landscape Architecture

Architect
CetraRuddy


Hudson Exchange West

OVERVIEW
Hudson Exchange West is an 18-acre neighborhood development project that will introduce new residential buildings, outdoor park areas, transportation access, and retail amenities to the downtown waterfront community of Jersey City.

Langan is providing geotechnical engineering services during the design development and construction development phases. Our scope of work includes a site specific seismic study, site coordination, subsurface investigation, geotechnical engineering report, and construction controlled inspections for the deep foundation installation and load tests.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Forest City Enterprises

Service
Geotechnical

Architect
Perkins Eastman

Strategic Partners
WSP (Phase IA)
McNamara Salvia Structural Engineers (Phase 1B)


Washington First Plaza

OVERVIEW
Langan provided landscape, site/civil engineering, and urban design services for the residential redevelopment on a brownfield site in downtown Jersey City. The project features a linear urban park, streetscape and a roof terrace in conjunction with a 33-story multi-use tower. A common materials palette of brick, granite and steel is utilized throughout the project that lends a Lower Manhattan ambiance to the designed spaces.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
The Athena Group, LLC

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Environmental
Geotechnical

Architect
SLCE Architects


One Journal Square

OVERVIEW
Langan is providing geotechnical, site/civil, and traffic engineering, planning, and surveying services for a proposed mixed-use development in the Journal Square section of Jersey City. The development will consist of two high-rise towers measuring 46 and 69 stories over a 10-floor podium and will include 1,725 residential apartments, approximately 89,000 SF of retail, 127,000 SF of office space, and 78,000 SF of amenities space. The development is adjacent to the Journal Square PATH Station.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Kushner Companies

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Traffic & Transportation
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Woods Bagot


30 Journal Square

OVERVIEW
Langan is providing site/civil and traffic engineering, planning and surveying services for a proposed mixed-use development at 30 Journal Square in Jersey City. The 1,022,362-GSF development will incorporate the historic Jersey Journal building and consist of a 72-story residential tower with a 10-story podium with space for retail, office, and parking.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Kushner Companies

Services
Site/Civil
Traffic & Transportation
Natural Resources & Permitting
Traditional Surveying

Architect
Morris Adjmi Architects


New Jersey City University – University Place

OVERVIEW
Based off the original master plan from 2005, University Place will be a $350-million education-based, mixed-use community featuring academic, dormitories and residential buildings, retail, and public plazas. The new development will be situated on 22 acres between Route 440 and West Side Avenue and divided into roughly 6 blocks. Langan provided a full range of services to implement the project’s infrastructure and is in the process of coordinating with municipal agencies and finalizing the site engineering design. The infrastructure design will involve new utilities and stormwater management. As the project continues, Langan will design the streetscape finishes, including street tree plantings, unit paving, decorative lighting and site amenities.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
New Jersey City University

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Surveying/Geospatial
Landscape Architecture

Architects
Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects
Studio Hillier
Feinberg & Associates
Niles Bolton Associates

Strategic Partner
Claremont Properties and The Hampshire Companies (Joint Venture)


New Jersey City University – West Side Village

OVERVIEW
Langan is providing a variety of engineering and consulting services for the West Side Village student dormitory building.  The approximately 100,000-SF, 425-bed dormitory will be located on the New Jersey City University West Campus and will be one of two buildings being constructed that will mark the start of vertical construction on the West Campus.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Ambling University Development Group

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
Niles Bolton Associates


Goya Foods Headquarters

OVERVIEW
The new headquarters consists of an approximately 615,000-SF warehouse on a 40-acre site. Langan provided site/civil, geotechnical, surveying, traffic engineering, landscape architecture, and natural resources permitting services. Our multi-disciplined approach greatly simplified a complex development process, thereby bringing great value to Goya. Additionally, Langan recommended a concrete modulus column subgrade improvement program, which was designed to support a high slab loading with a minimal settlement tolerance. This solution saved approximately $8 million as compared to a standard deep pile foundation.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Goya 75th Urban Renewal Co., LLC

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Traffic & Transportation
Traditional Surveying
Landscape Architecture
Natural Resources & Permitting

Strategic Partners
Rockefeller Development Group
RC Andersen


DMAVA Park and Hudson River Walkway

OVERVIEW
DMAVA Park and Hudson River Walkway is a public waterfront park offering sweeping views of Lower Manhattan and the New York Harbor, as well as the home of the historic Colgate Clock. This project responded to the environmental, historical, and recreational challenges of the property, specifically the movement of goods and cargo nearby and the historic migrations of people through nearby Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Langan designed this project for the NJDEP, including 1,600 linear feet of waterfront walkways, a bulkhead and waterfront esplanade, a timber boardwalk, and a three-acre park along the Morris Canal Basin, across from Liberty State Park. Our sensitive approach to preservation and ecologically-based engineering helped interpret and magnify this history while reconnecting Jersey City to its waterfront.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
New Jersey Department of Property Management and Construction

Services
Landscape Architecture
Environmental
Natural Resources & Permitting
Geotechnical


Colgate-Palmolive Waterfront

OVERVIEW
Langan provided waterfront, geotechnical, site/civil, traffic, and environmental engineering, and landscape architecture services for the redevelopment of Colgate Center, which formerly served as the main Colgate-Palmolive production facility for more than 150 years. The project involved the construction of 1,100 LF of anchored sheet pile bulkhead, a box culvert manifold, new relieving platform, and a world class promenade with sweeping views of Lower Manhattan.
AWARDS
2000 ACEC NJ Engineering Excellence Award

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Colgate-Palmolive Company

Services
Waterfront & Marine
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Environmental
Traffic & Transportation
Landscape Architecture


New Jersey 9.11 Memorial

OVERVIEW
Langan provided civil, geotechnical, and environmental engineering, as well as survey and permitting services, to support the New Jersey September 11th Memorial Design Competition Winner, "Empty Sky." The memorial consists of two 30-foot-high, 208-foot-long brushed stainless steel walls and a 16-foot-wide paved path, remembering the 741 people from New Jersey who were lost.
AWARDS
2004 NJ American Institute of Architects, Honor Award
2006 NY NOW People's Choice Award

Location
Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ

Clients
NJ Dept. of the Treasury
NJ State Council on the Arts

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental
Traditional Surveying


Liberty Science Center

OVERVIEW
Langan was the consultant for the 196,000-SF Liberty Science Center originally constructed in 1993. We were once again retained for the 2007 expansion, which included a new 94,000-SF, three-story west wing.

AWARDS
Grand Award for Engineering Excellence from the New Jersey Consulting Engineering Council

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
New Jersey Economic Development Authority

Services
Site/Civil
Environmental
Natural Resources & Permitting


Kulik Park Esplanade

OVERVIEW
Langan was presented with highly unusual challenges in tackling the restoration of a failed 800-foot-long steel bulkhead for the Kulik Park Esplanade adjacent to the Schwab Building on the Hudson River waterfront. Langan’s preload program stabilized the sheeting to support the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway that was subsequently built.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Mack-Cali Realty

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture


95 Greene Street

OVERVIEW
The project at 95 Greene Street featured the conversion of the old Colgate ‘G-block’ in downtown Jersey City, New Jersey, into an attractive commercial building with “modern” standards. Langan designed an attractive streetscape in accordance with the Colgate Master Plan Design Guidelines and provided boundary and topographic services. The urban streetscape consisted of irrigated trees in grated planting beds, “historic waterfront” style streetlights, and granite paver patterned sidewalks. Langan also designed an attractive terrace along the facade, consisting of central steps framed by a wide ramp on one side and a public seating area on the other. Planter columns were spaced to match the building’s architecture. Langan site/civil engineers designed utility services to upgrade the building to its current-day requirements.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
SJP Properties

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial


Harborside Financial Center

OVERVIEW
The Harborside Financial Center includes 6.4-million SF of office, retail and structured parking facilities located along the Hudson River waterfront. Langan has been responsible for the geotechnical, site/civil and landscape design of approximately 4 million-SF of Harborside. Langan also designed nearly one-half mile of waterfront walkway on an existing pier as well as 700 feet of a new two-level promenade.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Mack-Cali Realty

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture


Harborside Promenade

OVERVIEW
The Harborside Promenade is 700 feet long and consists of a bi-level structure, with upper and lower walkways separated by a 30-inch vertical distance and a combined span 32 feet in width. The upper walkway is a concrete deck on concrete-filled steel pipe piles and is finished with decorative concrete pavers for an “urban” feel. The lower walkway is timber decking for a more “marine” experience atop wood pilings.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Mack-Cali Realty

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical


Schwab Building/Plaza 10 Harborside

OVERVIEW
Mack-Cali has fully leased this 18-story building, with upwards of 500,000 SF of Class A Commercial office space, to Charles Schwab. Langan successfully resolved unique geotechnical engineering challenges by using an unusual foundation system, over 100 feet deep, consisting of 225-ton concrete-filled steel pipe piles and grouted rock-anchor tendons to counter wind-generated uplift forces. Langan provided full geotechnical engineering services during both design and construction phases, and also site/structural engineering services for adjacent park furnishings consisting of bleacher and bench seating, retaining walls, cheek-walls, free-standing walls, stairwells and steps.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Mack-Cali Realty

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Traditional Surveying


Plaza 4A Harborside

OVERVIEW
Langan provided full site/civil engineering and landscape architectural design for this significant downtown Jersey City project near the Hudson River Waterfront. This was the first of a series of major building projects at Harborside by Mack-Cali, and the ten-story building serves primarily as a parking garage for 1,500 spaces on the lower seven floors, thereby clearing the way for high-rise commercial office towers in previously existing commuter parking lots.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Mack-Cali Realty

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial


Plaza 5 Harborside

OVERVIEW
Mack-Cali’s towering 35-story Plaza 5 Harborside has approximately 1 million SF of Class A Commercial space plus an additional 6 stories of garage parking to accommodate 1,283 spaces. Langan provided geotechnical engineering, site/civil engineering, surveying and a range of related services including landscape architecture, railroad (LRT) settlement monitoring and construction inspection. Special challenges were presented in the form of a deep foundation system consisting of both 200-ton concrete-filled steel pipe piles and 9-foot diameter concrete caissons socketed into bedrock to offset tower wind loads.

Location
Jersey City, NJ

Client
Mack-Cali Realty

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial


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