McGregor Industries to Design, Manufacture & Install 233 Stories of Stairs -- the largest Stair Project in Company History.
McGregor Industries, a national steel manufacturer specializing in innovative stair systems for large high rise residential, commercial and mixed-use buildings, announced today that it was selected by Tutor Perini to design, manufacture and install 233 stories of stairs for the $280M construction project. The W/Element Philadelphia Hotel is set to open in early 2019.
The 51-story skyscraper has been designed as a "Swiss Watch" structure and will house a dual-brand hotel, consisting of the 295-room, 4-star W Philadelphia and the 460-room Element Philadelphia. Accommodating both hotels within the same 51-story building has created significant structural challenges -- nearly every floor in the tower is unique, requiring the structural grid and the stair systems to change on a floor-by-floor basis. McGregor Industries’ proprietary design, manufacturing and installation processes played an instrumental role in the company being selected as the stair provider for this complex and historic project.
McGregor Industries has a proven track record of designing, manufacturing and installing highly customized and complex stair systems for some the industry’s leading construction companies, on-time and on-budget. McGregor is the only vertically-integrated steel fabrication and installation company to utilize the Tekla modeling system to customize every stair model – providing the highest level of quality control, ensuring each component fits perfectly and avoiding manufacturing issues and costly delays. Throughout the process, contractors have direct access to the CEO and President, Bob McGregor, who is personally involved in each and every project.
“We are thrilled to once again partner with Tutor Perini and be recognized as an industry leader and one of the only stair manufacturers in the market place capable of handling a project with this level of complexity,” commented Bob McGregor, CEO of McGregor Industries. “We take a very different approach than other companies and handle the entire process – from design and detailing to fabrication and installation – in house. This allows us to control every aspect of the job and ensure even the most complex projects are successfully completed on-time and on-budget. This project marks the largest stair job in our company’s history and we look forward to helping Tutor Perini and the entire construction team complete this transformative project for the city of Philadelphia.”
Founded in 1919 and headquartered in Dunmore, P.A., McGregor Industries is a family-owned steel detailer, fabricator and installer specializing in tower stairs for high-rise commercial, residential and mixed-use buildings across the U.S. McGregor handles all points of the production cycle in-house – from detailing to fabrication, to installation – and uses the latest technological innovations to help reduce costs and increase accuracy in construction projects. McGregor Industries regularly works with construction’s leaders, including Hunter Roberts, Suffolk, Skanska, Turner, Tutor Perini, and others, on urban construction projects in major cities including, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, DC, and Chicago.
McGregor Stair Systems™ was born out of a desire to solve the challenges you face every day – delayed schedules, coordination issues, unsafe job sites, and more. We chose to do things differently, creating a revolutionary way of building tower stairs that’s transforming construction.
Our stairsare fabricated using a customized Building Information Modeling (BIM) design process that employs Tekla 3-D to create a virtual model of each set of stairs that can be integrated into the overall project model. This innovative system promotes design and engineering collaboration, allowing McGregor to fabricate each individual stair model based on its exact location in the project design and ensuring a perfect fit at the job site.
