Founded in the Washington, D.C. area in 1975, Commercial Window Shield has grown into one of the country’s leading installers of solar reflection and fragment retention window films.
In its early years, the company was at the forefront of the first energy conservation movement. Striving to reduce their energy bills and create a more comfortable working environment for their employees, companies hired Commercial Window Shield to install solar reflective film on their buildings’ windows.
Following the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1995, in which scores of people were killed or injured by flying glass, fragment retention window films were developed. Soon after, Commercial Window Shield developed and patented an attached window film system called Blastight™ specifically used in the installation of fragment retention window films.
One of the company’s first assignments in the post-Oklahoma City bombing era was to install fragment retention film on the Pentagon’s windows. When American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the building on Sept. 11, 2001, a CNN reporter the following day said on the air that scores of lives likely were saved because the windows were protected by fragment retention film. Within days, the Architect of the Capitol - the office in charge of design work for the U.S. Capitol and all House and Senate buildings - asked Commercial Window Shield to install security film on the Capitol, the four buildings that comprise the U.S. House of Representatives, and the three Library of Congress buildings, among others. By Oct. 5, the company had 50 installers on location and all of the film installations were completed in 40 days in the largest project of this nature in American history.
Since then, Commercial Window Shield has become the country’s undisputed leader in the installation of fragment retention window films. Our work can be seen on significant buildings from coast-to-coast, such as FBI headquarters, Veterans Administration, U.S. Labor and Transportation headquarters in Washington; Merrill Lynch and Ernst & Young headquarters, and Grand Central Terminal in New York City; O’Hare International Airport in Chicago; the Houston Convention Center; and the Dennis Chavez Federal Building in Albuquerque, N.M., not to mention more than two dozen American embassies around the world.
More recently, Commercial Window Shield is working with some of the country’s top commercial real estate and property management companies who are leasing space in their buildings to the General Services Administration. GSA lease renewal specifications require the building owners to install fragment retention films in buildings where federal agencies are housed.
What sets Commercial Window Shield apart is not only its ability to handle a variety of window film installation projects but adapt to any complex situation and create a viable and effective solution.
”Thanks Wayne. You guys really came through when it was needed. Just give us a heads up when you can take care of the Rosslyn jobs. Your quick response and the professionalism of the whole staff was very much evident & appreciated.”
– Charles M. Clancy
Pentagon Force Protection Agency