McLaren Engineering Group provided the official surveyor certification for the world’s largest cardboard moving box, constructed September 3rd in Times Square in midtown Manhattan.

Lawrence J. O’Connor, a professional engineer and licensed land surveyor with McLaren Engineering Group, performed the measurements and affixed the Land Surveyor’s Embossed Seal to certificates authenticating the record. O’Connor worked with a Guinness World Records (GWR) adjudicator to validate the new standard. GWR guidelines state that the structure must be measured by a qualified surveyor.

The record box measured 42 feet 3 inches long, 15 feet 10 ¾ inches feet wide and 8 feet tall. It was built by workers from ION Television to promote the premiere of the network’s new weekly series, “Durham County.”

The cardboard box was constructed from materials