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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 1,200 professionals in its Parsippany, NJ headquarters and among 28 regional offices nationwide.

Delamar Hotel

OVERVIEW
Langan provided multidisciplinary land development services for Delamar Hotel, a boutique hotel overlooking Trout Brook and located near Blue Back Square. The building includes over 100 guest rooms, a banquet facility, a restaurant, and outdoor seating and amenities. This Public Private Partnership project required detailed design elements during the entitlement process and extensive coordination with the town. Langan provided the site and landscape design, conducted a subsurface exploration, and developed an extensive stormwater management system to address the development on the existing pervious lot. The drainage system incorporates both water quality and quantity control measures, allowing it to meter flows from the development and polish stormwater before discharging to Trout Brook.

Location
West Hartford, CT

Client
The Matos Group

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial
Environmental
Traffic & Transportation


Hotel Palomar

OVERVIEW
Langan provided full site/civil engineering and permitting services for the renovation of two historic structures in Philadelphia. We performed a detailed topographic survey of the property to aid in maintaining and creating efficient access into the building from street. Existing site features were preserved to maintain the character of the surrounding area.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying

Architect
Gensler


Hotel Monaco

OVERVIEW
Langan provided full site/civil engineering and permitting services for the renovation of the landmark Lafayette Building, located in the prestigious Old City historic district, into a four-star Kimpton Monaco Hotel, restaurant and roof-top lounge. Langan landscape architects designed a rooftop garden featuring a large central planter with seating that serves as banquette seating and supports lush plantings.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying


The Logan Hotel

OVERVIEW
Langan provided full site/civil engineering, landscape architecture, and permitting services for renovations to the Logan Hotel. The space was redeveloped as a new four-star hotel, including a restaurant and rooftop lounge. Langan provided comprehensive planning, design and construction phase services for the hotels courtyard gardens, sidewalk café and outdoor patio area. Langan also coordinated with the Parkway streetscape design, the streetscape and the street level planters for the hotel.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
BLT Architects

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial

Architect
BLT Architects


Williams Lake Resort Community

OVERVIEW
The Williams Lake Resort project is a complete redevelopment of the former Williams Lake Hotel. Situated on 779 acres, the sustainable resort includes the Williams Lake Hotel and Spa, wellness and recreational areas, five residential villages, a clubhouse, and a historic interpretive center. The Hotel and Spa is on track to achieve LEED certification. Langan provided site/civil engineering and due diligence for the project, which was split into three main phases: Progress Plan Submission, Bulk Subdivision and Site Plan Approval, and Construction Documents and Construction Support. Langan coordinated with various local and federal agencies to obtain permits and approval for this extensive project.

Location
Rosendale, NY

Client
Hudson River Valley Resorts, LLC

Service
Site/Civil

Architect
Hart Howerton


Fair Lawn Promenade

OVERVIEW
A brownfield site, once owned by Kodak on Route 208, was in need of environmental cleanup and redevelopment. Langan provided landscape architecture services for the mixed-use development designed on 10 acres of unusable land. The main entrance to the site from Route 208 is designed as a gateway featuring low decorative knee walls adorned with decorative lighting and accent plantings. The promenade and centerpiece of the site boasts a 30-foot-wide by 256-foot-long area providing two small patio spaces and a permeable paver pathway in a park-like setting, complete with decorative benches and lighting that winds through a cleverly designed landscape.

Location
Fair Lawn, NJ

Client
Garden Commercial Properties

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil

Architect
Appel Design Group


The Promenade at Coconut Creek

OVERVIEW
This lifestyle center is located on a 23-acre site in Coconut Creek, Florida. Langan's scope included obtaining rezoning and site plan approval. The site plan includes rooftop greenspace and LEED certification. Langan performed site planning, stormwater management design, plat amendment, traffic analysis, utility coordination services, and geotechnical services to develop a comprehensive program of foundation and soils design parameters.

Location
Coconut Creek, FL

Client
Coconut Creek Development LLC

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Traffic & Transportation
Natural Resources & Permitting

Strategic Partner
Stanbery Development


Voorhees Town Center

OVERVIEW
Voorhees Town Center is mixed-use center of community activity, consisting of 850,000± SF of retail space with 575,000± SF of residential living space. Langan provided geotechnical, traffic and site/civil engineering, landscape architecture, and construction coordination services. The project included amenities such as a large pedestrian plaza outside of the new mall entrance, a landscaped boulevard extending from the mall to Echelon Road and the adjoining residential communities, broad sidewalks that allow for outdoor seating and strolling, open spaces for passive recreation, and the preservation of an old-growth wooded hill.

Location
Voorhees Township, NJ

Client
PREIT Services, LLC

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Traffic & Transportation

Architect
Barton Partners


University of Connecticut – Innovation Partnership Building

OVERVIEW
The 115,000 SF Innovation Partnership Building is the first building within UConn's Technology Park campus, developed to connect leading industries with advanced research facilities and foster innovative solutions for real-world problems. We provided survey, geotechnical and civil engineering, and landscape architecture for this project. Our site design minimized impacts to the primarily wooded lot and reduced the views of parking along the roadway through grading and landscape design. Additionally, our stormwater management design implemented a low-impact development approach that seeks to protect and minimize disruption to the existing natural resources and environmentally sensitive areas. The project was submitted for LEED Silver certification.
AWARDS
2019 ENR New England Best Projects, Higher Education/Research, Award of Merit
2018 AIA Connecticut Design Award

Location
Storrs, CT

Client
University of Connecticut

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture
Traditional Surveying

Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


Temple University Aramark STAR Complex

OVERVIEW
The Temple University Aramark Student Training & Recreation Center (STAR) Complex sits on a 4-acre site and includes an enclosed 60-yard football practice field, recreational facilities, a neighborhood recreational track, classroom space for the College of Public Health, green stormwater infrastructure, and a landscaped entry plaza. Langan provided site/civil engineering, landscape architecture, and survey services to facilitate the development. In addition to providing design and engineering services, Langan was responsible for securing land development permits from the Philadelphia Water Department and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
Temple University

Services
Site/Civil
Surveying/Geospatial
Landscape Architecture


Rutgers University – Livingston Campus Mall

OVERVIEW
The Livingston Campus Mall project redesigned a 1.5-acre promenade through the center of this Rutgers campus. The mall serves as the primary pedestrian connection for residence, classroom, library and dining facilities. The west end of the mall was integrated with the new Livingston Campus Student Center. To develop a unified design, Langan worked with key campus staff to conceptualize a design theme of small plazas connected by the cohesive paving patterns of proposed walkways.
AWARDS
New Jersey ASLA Award

Location
Piscataway, NJ

Client
Rutgers University

Services
Landscape Architecture
Surveying/Geospatial
Site/Civil


St. Joseph’s University – Retail, Parking, and Streetscape

OVERVIEW
Langan developed a context-sensitive campus streetscape design for a new campus bookstore, cafe, and restaurant that will front a new parking structure on campus. The site incorporated intensive stormwater management planning to comply with evolving Philadelphia Water Department regulations. The urban streetscape incorporates large planting trenches below the paving to provide a sustainable rooting area for street trees.

Location
Philadelphia, PA

Client
O'Donnell & Naccarato

Services
Site/Civil
Landscape Architecture


Blue Back Square – Library & Town Park

OVERVIEW
Blue Back Square is an extension of the pedestrian heart of downtown West Hartford, Connecticut. This one-million-SF project included the regeneration of a brownfield site, expansion of civic facilities and public open-space, a mix of large and small format retail shops, two municipal parking garages, restaurants, professional and medical offices, a health club, residential condominiums and apartments the renovation and expansion of the West Hartford Library and the creation of a town park. The new streetscape was designed with granite curbs, unit pavers, concrete banding, decorative bollards and street lighting that mesh with the character of the existing downtown. Langan provided full site/civil, landscape design, traffic consulting, environmental and geotechnical engineering services to facilitate the new development.

Location
West Hartford, CT

Client
Blue Back Square Development

Services
Landscape Architecture
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental
Surveying/Geospatial


Terrain at Westport

OVERVIEW
This is the second location of Terrain, a home and garden center owned by Urban Outfitters, in the US. Located on the site of a former auto dealership, redevelopment of the property was complicated by significant environmental contamination and size constraints of both the existing buildings and the lot. The project included extensive site improvements, renovation of two existing buildings, redesign of the parking facilities, and the construction of a 21,000-SF outdoor patio with café seating and greenhouses for plant sales. Langan provided due diligence, site/civil engineering, surveying, landscape architecture, and environmental engineering.

Location
Westport, CT

Client
Urban Outfitters Inc.

Services
Site/Civil
Environmental
Traditional Surveying
Landscape Architecture

Architect
New Studio Architecture


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Biotrial North American Headquarters

OVERVIEW
Langan provided geotechnical, civil, environmental, traffic, and landscape architecture services to this France-based biotechnology and pharmaceutical company. The first phase of the project consisted of a five-story, 70,000-SF glass building, which features metal panels that rise on two sides of the building, symbolizing the nature of Biotrial's pharmaceutical testing mission. Phased site design construction plans include a screened-in service and parking area with underground stormwater storage, a public plaza at the front of the building that will carry the building pattern toward the public sidewalk, and a private volunteer garden that will provide a green resting area for building users.

Location
Newark, NJ

Client
Biotrial

Services
Geotechnical
Site/Civil
Traffic & Transportation
Landscape Architecture

Architect
Francis Cauffman

Strategic Partners
Buro Happold
Thornton Tomasetti


Swarthmore College – NPPR Residence Hall

OVERVIEW
In order to accommodate a rapidly growing student population, Swarthmore College added a 128-bed residence hall near its Palmer, Pittenger and Roberts residence-hall complex. Langan provided site/civil, survey, and geotechnical engineering services to facilitate designing, permitting, and constructing the new residence hall. The project was designed to minimize environmental impact by following the recommendations established in the college’s sustainability framework. To meet the college’s sustainability goals, Langan worked closely with the project landscape architect, Studio Bryan Haynes, to design the site to preserve trees, respect the ball fields adjacent to the resident-hall quadrant, provide outdoor space for student enjoyment, provide low-impact stormwater-management features, and conserve energy. Langan’s experience with designing and permitting innovative stormwater management on tight urban sites was a key contribution to the success in the design and approval process for this project.

Location
Swarthmore Borough, PA

Client
Swarthmore College

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Traditional Surveying

Architect
DIGSAU Architecture


EcoCenter

OVERVIEW
Located at Heron's Head Park, a former landfill, this urban educational center was built using recycled materials, boasts a vegetation roof, operates 100 percent by solar power, and features its own on-site wastewater treatment system. Langan provided geotechnical and methane mitigation design services for the EcoCenter. Our recommendation for a shallow mat foundation for the structure was a cost-effective and efficient solution as opposed to the more expensive pile foundation typically found beneath structures on closed landfills.
AWARDS
2010 US Environmental Protection Agency, National Achievements in Environmental Justice Award

Location
San Francisco, CA

Clients
Literacy for Environmental Justice
The Port of San Francisco

Services
Geotechnical
Environmental

Strategic Partner
KLM Builders


Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

OVERVIEW
Designed by renowned architect Louis Kahn, the 4.5-acre park and plaza sits at Roosevelt Island's southernmost point. The site is immediately across the East River from the United Nations, and features a landscaped open garden and plaza area for passive public enjoyment, promenade along the river, forecourt, sculpture court and front plaza overlooking the river with views of Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
AWARDS
2013 Engineering News Record Best Project – Merit Award (Landscape/Hardscape/Urban Development)
2013 American Institute of Architects New York Chapter Design Awards: Urban Design Merit Award
2013 Municipal Art Society: Brendan Gill Prize
2013 Travel + Leisure Design Awards: Best Public Space
2013 American Council of Engineering Companies New Jersey Chapter, Engineering Excellence Awards, Honor Award
2013 American Council of Engineering Companies, Engineering Excellence Awards, Grand Award

Location
Roosevelt Island, NY

Client
Frankling D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, LLC

Services
Waterfront & Marine
Land Use Planning
Natural Resources & Permitting
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Landscape Architecture

Architects
Mitchell | Giurgola Architects
Louis Kahn

Strategic Partners
Weidlinger Associates
F.J. Sciame


New York Botanical Garden – Native Plant Garden

OVERVIEW
The Native Plant Garden at New York Botanical Garden is an inviting space that educates visitors on the diversity, ecology, and horticultural benefits of native plants. The garden features a series of cascading ponds with a mechanical water-recirculation system, a filtration wetland, and several acres of native planting. Langan performed a geotechnical subsurface investigation to assist with the foundation design of the water feature and the perimeter elevated walkways. We also provided grading and drainage design focused on capturing stormwater runoff water in the ponds, while providing an adequate overflow conveyance for larger storm events. The project is aiming for certification through the Sustainable Site Initiative program. To help achieve this certification, Langan provided an innovative stormwater management design to improve water quality and retain rainwater for irrigation use and the ponds.

Location
Bronx, NY

Client
New York Botanical Garden

Services
Site/Civil
Geotechnical
Environmental

Strategic Partner
Oehme, van Sweden