PLANO, Texas – Commercial Window Shield has been hired by the Plano Independent School District for a security and safety window film installation project.
The project involves the installation of safety and security window film on all ground floor glass on eight middle school and two high school buildings. The state of Texas has mandated that in such projects all school building glass seven feet high and below should be protected by the installation of security window film, also known as shatter resistance window film.
Funding for the project and other similar projects around the state came from the Texas’s School Safety Standards Formula initiative. The initiative has allocated $400 million to public schools for enhanced safety. The initiative was sparked by a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in May 2022 during which 19 students and two teachers were killed and 17 students wounded by a lone gunman who entered the school through a building door.
The Plano security window film installation project is in progress. A completion date of Dec. 31 is required.
Plano ISD has around 47,000 students on 79 campuses. The rapidly growing city, a suburb of Dallas 20 miles south, has a population of 300,000.
Commercial Window Shield, which has been at the forefront of the country’s school safety movement, has been particularly active in Texas. Lat year the company completed a safety and security window film installation project for Harmony Public schools. That project involved the installation of safety and security window film with a wet glaze attachment system on all ground floor glass at the system’s 74 buildings.
Including the Plano project, the company has protected the glass – and the students and school employees – in hundreds of school buildings in 12 states.
Elsewhere, Commercial Window Shield has completed safety and security film installation projects at Geneva, Minooka and Lake Zurich school districts in suburban Chicago; Calvert and Carroll County [Md.] Public Schools;
Mechanicsburg and Bath Local Schools, near Lima, Ohio; Bellmore and Hewlett-Woodmere Public Schools, N.Y.; Hartford, Glastonbury and Simsbury school districts in Connecticut; Norfolk and Henry County in Virginia; Beaverton, Ore.; Comanche Public Schools, Comanche, Okla., Lansdale, Pa. and Katy, Galena Park, San Antonio and Rockwell schools districts in Texas.
With more than 40 years of experience, Commercial Window Shield is one of the nation’s leading security and solar control window film installers. Among its many projects, the company has protected windows at the U.S. Capitol, FBI headquarters, Pentagon, all House of Representative buildings, O’Hare International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the Willis Tower [former Sears Tower], Denver Mint, Grand Central Terminal and the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.
