WASHINGTON — Commercial Window Shield has been hired for a security window film installation project at the Federal Reserve Board’s Martin Building in the nation’s capital.
The project involves installing 8-mil security film as a spallshield on the inside surface of ballistic glazing on all the ground floor windows. Although ballistic glazing can stop bullets, it does not prevent the glass from shattering and propelling shards into the air, endangering Federal Reserve employees. The security film effectively stops and contains any glass fragments. In all, around 13,000 sq. ft. of glass will be protected by the security window film installed by Commercial Window Shield.
Tide Water Glazing of Hanover, Md., who is installing the ballistic glazing in the building, hired Commercial Window Shield for the security film installation component of the project. Previously, Tide Water Glazing and Commercial Window Shield worked together on a similar project at the U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters building.
The Martin building is part of the main Federal Reserve Board campus bounded by Constitution and Virginia Avenues and 20th and 21st Streets. The entire Martin building is undergoing renovation. Commercial Window Shield’s security window film installation part of the project will begin in the spring.
Commercial Window Shield is one of the country’s largest installers of security and solar control window films. Among the hundreds of projects the company has completed in its 30+ years are the U.S. Capitol, all House of Representative and Library of Congress buildings, Pentagon, FBI headquarters, Grand Central Terminal, Merrill Lynch headquarters, O’Hare International and Seattle-Tacoma airports, the Willis Tower [former Sears Tower], the United Nations, and the Philadelphia and Denver mints.
For more information:
George Tanber [419] 410-7913 or Adam Staley [419] 215-9469
