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Custom Engineered Portable Structures

Custom Engineered Portable Structures

This engineered customized portable structure at Walt Disney’s Epcot was designed and fabricated to meet many needs. The engineered portable structure had to look like a white stucco house in the Greek Islands, it had to have the structural integrity portability requires and the electrical systems a commercial kitchen requires. Entech Innovative Engineering was up for the challenge and ultimately re-engineered the project to save time, money and improve the look and durabilit

Penalty Kick Challenge

Penalty Kick Challenge

It started with an idea. How could the public actively engage with the 2013 Ford Escape redesign and walk away knowing the great new features: 33 miles per gallon and hand-free lift gate? Answer, a custom interactive soccer video game! The first creative meeting with the Xperience and Entech Innovative Engineering teams was all about the details of the customer experience and defining what the game would do. Then the engineers dove into programming the game and designing the

Grand Cypress Pool Expansion

Grand Cypress Pool Expansion

The expansion of the Grand Cypress pool area was distinguished by the ability of the team at Entech Innovative Engineering to install FAST. Entech had been selected by Hensel Phelps for the job because during the bidding process, Entech’s proposal offered the shortest time frame for fabrication and installation. Since the renovations were taking place in an existing hotel while guests would be staying there and using the pool, time was of the essence. The team at Entech teame

Hard Rock Cafe Waikiki

Art of Animation – Crush Icon

Art of Animation – Crush Icon

The Art of Animation Resort features beloved characters and stories that invite guests to enter the magical animated world of their favorite films. Crush, from the Disney-Pixar film Finding Nemo, is the focal point in the main pool courtyard, a larger-than-life icon that adorns the Art of Animation Resort. Standing an imposing 35’ x 42’, Crush is made of composite construction on a steel and aluminum armature finished with scenic paint. Skillfully engineered, environmental co

Art of Animation – Mr. Ray Icon

Art of Animation – Mr. Ray Icon

The Art of Animation Resort opened in May 2012. Based upon the concept of providing guests with the opportunity to come face-to-face with the larger-than-life smiling characters from their favorite Disney/Pixar film, the resort features a giant statue of Mr. Ray in the Finding Nemo courtyard. Standing 25’ x 22’, Mr. Ray is constructed of composite, steel and scenic paint. The large scale parts were created using computer modeling and then cut by a 5-axis router. Mr. Ray is an

Art of Animation – Elephant Bones Icon

Art of Animation – Elephant Bones Icon

Simba’s journey is celebrated in The Lion King area of the Art of Animation Resort. With landscape and theming that reflect both playful and poignant scenes from the Academy Award-winning Disney animated film The Lion King. Among the landscapes depicted from the movie, the elephant graveyard is both a poignant scene and a playground. At 10’ x 25’, the imposing prehistoric elephant bones emerge from a stone cliff. Constructed of stainless steel clad with composite and finished

Chinet Comfort Cup Experience

Chinet Comfort Cup Experience

To increase brand awareness for the Chinet Comfort Cup®, Entech Innovative partnered with Trashtalk FCM to create a one-of-a-kind experience. The campaign focused on engaging the consumer during the regular course of their day. The promotion involved the street team offering passers-by coffee from their coffee dispensing backpacks. Consumers could stop and enjoy their coffee at a mobile coffee table shaped like a large Chinet Comfort Cup®. (See video of steam test) While the

Blastaway Beach

Blastaway Beach

The management at Wet ‘n Wild wanted the new Blastaway Beach playground to be designed, constructed and open to the public in time for the summer season. To get the job done, Wet ‘n Wild management turned to two reliable partners, Entech Innovative and ProSlide, to build their vision for the innovative new interactive children’s play area. Wet ‘n Wild, founded by “Father of the Waterpark” and IAAPA Hall of Fame inductee George Milay, was his first ‘child.’ Since customer expe

William Scherzer, American Engineer

Marcel Breuer and the ‘Wassily Chair’

The Ford Cowboys Stadium Mezzanine

The Ford Cowboys Stadium Mezzanine

Ford Motor Company wanted a permanent branded environment in the iconic Cowboys Stadium mezzanine. To realize Ford’s vision, Xperience Communications of Detroit, Michigan, partnered with Entech Innovative to design and build the Cowboys Stadium Ford End Zone Mezzanine. As the technical design and fabrication partner for the group, Entech engineered and fabricated the activation content for the Cowboys Stadium end zone mezzanine. It was Entech’s job to make what Ford and Xperi

Margaritaville’s Spinning Hurricane

Margaritaville’s Spinning Hurricane

The Entech Innovative Engineering team engineered and fabricated the massive icon for the center bar at Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Designed by and furnished under the direction of The McBride Co., the restaurant features a giant spinning hurricane with a large tequila bottle at its core for us to fabricate. The tequila bottle descends out of the rotating hurricane clouds to dispense gallons of “tequila” into a huge blender. The effect is to

Dollywood Mystery Mine Roller Coaster

Dollywood Mystery Mine Roller Coaster

Mystery Mine, a Dollywood attraction, is a roller coaster designed to take guests on a realistic and dramatic adventure through a long abandoned coal mine with an eerie past. Herschend Family Entertainment asked Entech Innovative Engineering to create excitement during the ride. Entech engineers used state-of-the-art show effects, including pyrotechnics and audio that set the stage for the experience. Thrill-seekers relish the 95-degree drops that plunge them into darkness be

Parade Floats

Ford Tower

Ford Tower

For mobile activations, the “Ford Tower of Power,” is truly impressive. Entech engineers worked with Xperience Communications for Ford Motor Vehicles on this customized project. The task: to create a display that would definitely set Ford apart; the tower is themed as an oil rig and rises 60 feet above the brand activation. The structure displays and rotates a brand-new, fully-loaded 7,000 pound Ford truck for spectacular 360-degree views of the vehicle. The colossal Ford Tow

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Rocket Garden

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Rocket Garden

The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Rocket Garden is a three-acre walking tour through the history of NASA rockets. Delaware North, the concessionaire for the complex, had Entech Innovative Engineering design, engineer and build the environmental content that pulls the “garden” together and enhances the visitor experience. This content includes everything from the entrance, to railings, to graphics and design of interpretive material. Most important to visitors is prot

Hope Diamond

Hope Diamond

Entech Innovative Engineering, together with the world famous Diebold Corporation, provided the Smithsonian Institution with the design, engineering and fabrication of the vitrine chest and mechanical security mechanism that permits the public maximum access to the Hope Diamond. The high-tech mechanism displays and protects the Hope Diamond, one of America’s national treasures, within the security chest that houses it. The top secret mechanical mechanism displays, retracts an

SkyCycle™ By Entech Innovative

SkyCycle™ By Entech Innovative

The Entech Innovative Engineering-branded SkyCycle™ has become the standard for full-body immersive educational exhibits for almost a dozen science centers throughout the United States and Asia. Originally the generic high-wire or high-rail bike, Entech’s engineers standardized the design to provide comfort and safety, yet, by permitting riders to sway back and forth within defined limits, simultaneously offering a white knuckle thrill to first time riders. The SkyCycle™ clea