MINOOKA, Ill. Commercial Window Shield has completed a second safety and security glass protection project at a Chicago-area school in the past six weeks.

The project, at Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201, involved installing safety and security film with a wet glaze attachment on nearly 500 panes of glass in entryways and vulnerable, first-floor windows in five school buildings.

In securing the job and completing the project, Commercial Window Shield overcame several challenges.

STR Partners, a Chicago architecture firm working with the school district on the project, had stipulated that a 3M film be used. But Commercial Window Shield recommended an equivalent film with significant cost savings and the same protection, which STR approved.

During a site visit, Commercial Window Shield engineers discovered that some of the screws holding the building windows in place were protruding, which would have made proper film installation difficult. The engineers recommended that film installers replace the old screws with flatheads  a suggestion that was welcomed by STR and school officials.

The Minooka project follows a similar project involving nine school buildings for Geneva Community Unit School District 304, which Commercial Window Shield completed in February. A third Chicago-area project, at Lake Zurich CommunityUnit School District, will begin shortly.

The Illinois projects come at a time when school districts around the country are acting to protect their buildings from potential violent intrusions. In the past year, Commercial Window Shield has  completed similar projects at 26 school buildings for Calvert County [Md.] Public Schools and two buildings for Bath Local Schools, near Lima, Ohio. Previously, the company was hired for safety and security window film installation projects at 36 school districts in Long Island, N.Y., and Glastonbury, Simsbury and Hartford school districts in Connecticut.

With more than 30 years of experience, Commercial Window Shield is the nation’s leading security and solar reflective window film installer. Among its hundreds of projects, the company has protected windows at the U.S. Capitol, Pentagon, all House of Representative buildings, O’Hare International Airport, the Willis Tower [former Sears Tower], Denver and Philadelphia Mints, Grand Central Terminal and George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

For more information:
George Tanber [419] 410-7913 or Adam Staley [419] 215-9469