MINOOKA, Ill.  A second Chicago-area school district has hired Commercial Window Shield to secure the glass in five school buildings.

The company will install safety and security film with a wet glaze attachment on nearly 500 panes of glass in entryways and vulnerable, first-floor windows for Minooka Community Consolidated School District 201.

The project is scheduled to begin in January.

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 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 was awarded to Commercial Window Shield in September.

The Illinois projects come at a time when school districts around the country are acting to protect their buildings from potential violent intrusions. Commercial Window Shield recently 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 35 years 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