Langan

Langan is a site engineering and environmental consulting firm that Bernard F. Langan founded in Clifton, N.J., in 1970. It’s now headquartered in Parsippany, N.J., with about 2,300 employees in 59 locations and work in more than 100 countries. Geotechnical and site/civil engineering are the core of the practice. The firm also handles environmental work, energy, seismic engineering, traffic and transportation, and geospatial services for developers, hospitals, data centers, stadiums and public agencies. In West Palm Beach, Langan is the civil and geotechnical engineer on West Palm Point, Cohen Brothers Realty’s planned 23-story, 438,000-square-foot office tower designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners. Foundations on South Florida’s sandy, high-water-table ground are exactly the kind of problem it gets hired for.

Beyond the geotechnical and site/civil core, the service list is where this practice gets interesting. It includes earthquake and seismic engineering, traffic and transportation, geospatial services and surveying, landscape architecture, land use planning, natural resources and permitting, cultural and heritage management, sustainable design, waterfront and marine, geologic hazards, PFAS and demolition. Environmental compliance and EHS management are offered as standing services rather than one-off studies.

A digital solutions group sits alongside the engineering disciplines, covering systems and development, GIS mapping and consulting, environmental data management and analytics, and asset and facility management. For a site engineering firm, that is an unusual amount of software capability to keep in house, and it tends to show up on long-running remediation and portfolio work where the data outlives the project.

The market list reads like a map of where large-scale site work happens: tall buildings, data centers, warehouse and distribution centers, hospitals and healthcare, colleges and universities, K-12 schools, office campuses, stadiums and arenas, resorts, hospitality and casinos, airports, mixed-use, residential, retail, renewable energy, power and transmission, oil and gas, P3 and concession infrastructure, waterfront and marine, entertainment, cultural and parks work, and land recycling, which is the business of making previously used ground buildable again.

On the data center side the firm publishes guidance on sustainability trends, challenges and engineering solutions, a sign of where current demand sits.

One credential is worth flagging for anyone handling sensitive project data: Langan states it has achieved ISO 27001 certification, the global cybersecurity standard. The firm also notes that the Langan name covers multiple legal entities, so contracting parties should confirm which entity holds a given agreement. The corporate headquarters line is 973-560-4900.