ALEXANDRIA, Va. — One of the country’s largest construction companies has selected Commercial Window Shield to install security window film on a building that will house the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

HITT Contracting of Falls Church, Va., is renovating the 7-story building at 1320 Braddock Place for USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service. As part of the General Service Administration’s security requirements for federal government tenants, fragment retention film must be installed on the building’s windows for shatter resistant glass protection in the event of a catastrophic event.

The project calls for Commercial Window Shield to install 18,000 sq. ft. of 7-mil clear daylight security film on 952 windows.

Renovation of the building by HITT is underway. The fragment retention film installation phase of the project is scheduled to begin in the fall. Around 730 USDA employees will be moving into the building when the renovation is completed.

HITT and Commercial Window Shield have partnered on several other security window film installation projects in the past as HITT values the company’s experience, expertise and ability to complete its work on time and precisely to spec.

Over more than 35 years, Commercial Window Shield has installed security and solar control window film in hundreds of buildings around the country, with a particular focus in the Nation’s Capitol region. Among its projects, the company has installed security or solar films at the U.S. Capitol, all U.S. House of Representative and Library of Congress buildings, Veterans Administration and Energy Department headquarters, FBI headquarters, Grand Center Terminal, Seattle and O’Hare international airports, Merrill Lynch towers, the United Nations, George Brown Convention Center in Houston, and the Denver and Philadelphia mints.

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