Market: Office + Mixed Use 
Market: Office + Mixed Use 
Architect: AC Martin
Project: Wilshire Grand
Products: Customized Expansion Joint Covers & Architectural Louvers
Los Angeles’ captivating lifestyle and endless opportunities are why people gravitate to this mecca of culture and tourism in California. Adding to its appeal, the city is now home to the tallest building west of the Mississippi – Wilshire Grand Center. Located in the heart of downtown LA, this 73-story structure stands 1,100 feet tall, and includes a 900-room InterContinental hotel, five restaurants, and multi-floor, Class A office space. It also features an alluring, glass skylight, which cascades like an elevated waterfall above the entrance.
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Market: Retail + Hospitality 
Architect: Nobutaka Ashihara Architect PC
Project: 1717 Broadway
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In the heart of Manhattan, close to both Central Park and Times Square, 1717 Broadway houses within its 68 floors the tallest hotel in North America. As part of a project to re-design the building, a decorative stainless-steel grille system was selected to wrap around the exterior of the structure, adding a prominent and unique architectural element to the tower. The grille system, designed and manufactured in Japan, would significantly enhance the structure’s aesthetics.
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Market: Office + Mixed Use 
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Architect: Goettsch Partners
Project: 150 North Riverside
Products: RSH-5700 Storm-Resistant Louvers, VAC-6000 Vision Barriers
To equip the building’s striking facade with weather-engineered products, architects incorporated CS’ storm-resistant louvers to regulate airflow and provide protection from wind and rain. Coupled with CS’ Vert-A-Cade vision barrier screens, the iconic facade of 150 North Riverside Plaza boasts aesthetic variety.
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Market: Aviation + Transportation 
Architect: HOK
Project: ARTIC
Products: Architectural Louvers
Each day, thousands of visitors walk through the doors of the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center, noting the iconic shape of the building and its use of natural sunlight and multicolored lights to bring life to the center. CS Architectural Louvers complement the design and functionality, creating a LEED-certified space, which is a destination in itself.
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Market: Sports + Entertainment 
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Project: T-Mobile Arena
Products: A6097 Drainable Louvers
Las Vegas is home to glitzy, spectacular buildings. When envisioning a new 650,000-square-foot arena for the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the Populous architectural design team set out to create an exquisite site, sporting an expansive glass façade intertwined with sweeping balconies and a 9,000-square-foot LED screen. Today, T-Mobile Arena is not only the city's largest event space in Las Vegas, it is also the first sports and entertainment stadium in the area to achieve LEED® certification.
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Market: Office + Mixed Use 
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Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Project: One World Trade Center
Products:
Custom Storm-Resistant Louvers
One World Trade Center stands stronger than ever as the sixth-tallest building in the world, complete with CS’ storm-resistant louvers, which meet the air performance and water resistance needs of the structure.
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Market: Aviation + Transportation 
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Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Project: World Trade Center Transportation Hub
Products: CS Blast-Resistant Horizontal Louvers
Market: Retail + Hospitality 
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Project: Miami Shopping Center
Products: Architectural Louvers, Expansion Joint Covers
The shopping center’s design team selected a variety of CS louvers that would be resistant to heavy rain and wind while allowing optimal airflow throughout the complex. They also chose a seismic expansion joint cover system that would blend seamlessly into the building and shift effortlessly with the building’s natural movements.
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Market: Retail + Hospitality 
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Project: San Francisco International Airport
Products: A2097 Aviation Video
Market: Retail + Hospitality 
Project: VIA 57 West
Products: RSH-5700, EL-240
Our storm-resistant louvers and vision barriers achieved optimal airflow performance, weather protection, and uncompromised aesthetic at VIA 57 West, a residential masterpiece along the Hudson River.
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Market: Sports + Entertainment 
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Project: Madison Square Garden
Products: RSV-5700
Renovation of Madison Square Garden in 2013 brought the fifty-year-old arena into the 21st Century. The new arena had to fit within the existing structure, while offering all the amenities current sports fans expect. For the exterior, Construction Specialties provided custom curved Storm Resistant Vertical Louvers that needed to fit perfectly into the fluted alcoves. Due to the extremely tight radius, special shaped corner louvers were being mounted in pre-cast panels. This necessitated additional engineering and working in conjunction with the steel and precast people to insure a proper fit.
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Market: Aviation + Transportation 
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Project: Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Products: RSH-5700
This project is the first air traffic control tower to earn LEED® Silver certification. Keeping with Chicago’s notable architectural heritage, the selected NATCT design is AECOM’s asymmetrical, cantilevered tower. A great addition to the city’s skyline, this tower prominently features C/S Louvers. C/S worked closely with the installer on the custom louver attachment. This unique attachment allows for lateral and rotational adjustment of the louvers giving them the appearance of seamlessly floating away from the structure.
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Market: Retail + Hospitality 
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Market: Healthcare 
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Architect: RTKL Associates Inc.
Project: UT Southwestern William P Clements Jr University Hospital
Products: MW-7315
The CS MW-7315 Louver was created as a solution to a problem that came up during the design of The William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital in Texas. The hospital has over 40,000 ft2 of total louver area. During the project design, CS learned that the area behind the 16,000 ft2 of inactive louver is conditioned occupied space. There are laboratories in this area; therefore true wall performance and high R-value are required, which traditional blank off cannot provide. The solution is CS Louver over CENTRIA’s MetalWrap back up insulated panel system. This provides true wall performance without compromising aesthetics. The result is another innovative product, MetalWrap Louvers and Wall System, from the coordinated partnership between CS and CENTRIA.
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Market: Healthcare 
Market: Healthcare 
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Project: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Products: RSH-5700
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia used Storm Resistant C/S RS-7305 Louvers to help prevent HVAC damage from East coast storm, as well as using RS-7305 continuous front blade Louvers to provide imperceptible visual transition to active and insulated louvers behind . The 7” deep Louvers allow free flowing air to circulate and are Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Silver.
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Market: Healthcare 
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Market: Sports + Entertainment 
Architect: NBBJ Sports Entertainment
Project: Staples Center
Products: A12370, Vert-A-Cade 300
The Staples Center is a large multi-purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles. The Staples Center features a sloping roof and tilted walls. Over 400 sq. ft. of louvers were custom manufactured to the exact dimensions to align properly with the tilted wall condition. 11’ tall trapezoidal louvers can be found on all sides of the center.
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Market: Healthcare 
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Market: Office + Mixed Use 
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Project: Inlet District Energy Center
Products: RSH-5700, RS-4605, VAC 301, Horizonal Sunshade
The Inlet District Energy Center (IDEC) is built on a site leased from Revel Entertainment Group, adjacent to the Revel Entertainment hotel and casino. This $129 billion dollar state-of-the-art co-generation plant recycles waste energy, provides power for the complex and emergency backup power to local area Inlet customers as well as reduces greenhouse gas. Construction Specialties RSH-5700 Louvers help provide adequate airflow to the electrical generating equipment within the building. At the top of the building, the horizontal lines of CS Vert-a-Cade 301 echo those of the louvers below as they conceal vertical storm resistant RSV-5700 Louvers, which provide major intake and exhaust to the equipment while protecting it from wind driven rain.
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Market: Office + Mixed Use 
Architect: Rafael Viñoly
Project: David L Lawrence Convention Center
Products: RS-7305
The 1.5 million sq. ft. David L. Lawrence Convention Center incorporates CS Storm Resistant RS-7305 louvers to stop wind-driven rain from entering the building. The louvers are 7” deep fixed horizontal louvers and are designed to allow free flowing air to circulate the convention center.
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Market: Office + Mixed Use 
Architect: Bermello Ajamil & Partners
Project: Broadway Pier
Products: A6097, 5700, 5300, 4097
LEED Gold Certified the Broadway Pier project was designed to be environmental friendly, accomplished using many methods. The sides of the sawtooth roof are CS Louvers allowing for natural ventilation. CS Louvers in Arabian Blue on all elevations allow fresh air to circulate and sea breezes to enter.
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Market: Healthcare 
Architect: CO Architects
Project: Palomar Medical Center
Products: Wall Protection, Wall Panels, Pedimat System, PediTred System, Storm-Resistant Louvers, Thinline Louvers
Creating a high-performance healing environment meant selecting known healthy building products. Construction Specialties (CS) products were chosen by CO Architects and integrated into the facility because of the products’ high material health standards and ingredient transparency, which ensured designers and healthcare officials that selected products had eliminated chemicals of concern. CS products included were entrance flooring, rigid sheet, crash rails, corner guards, handrails and architectural louvers.
Market: Education 
Architect: Moseley Architects
Project: Old Dominion University
Products: Cantilevered and Vertical Sunshades, Interior Lightshelves, Storm-Resistant Louvers, Modular Grilles
ODU’s Engineering and Computational Sciences building is the first LEED® Certified higher education building in Virginia. Moseley Architects specified C/S Cantilevered and Vertical Sun Controls to reduce heat and glare. In conjunction with the sunshades, C/S Interior Lightshelves were installed on the building’s southern elevation to create a complete Daylight Management System.
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Market: Office + Mixed Use 
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects
Project: One Raffles Quay
Products: Storm-Resistant Louvers
To create the remarkable facade on the Raffles Quay Complex, the architect specified a CS custom continuous line storm resistant louver.
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Market: Healthcare 
Architect: HKS
Project: Parkview Regional Medical Center
Products: DS-7705
When the job came out to bid in April of 2009, CS 7” storm resistant Louver model RS-7315 was prime specified, integrated into CENTRIA Formawall Dimension Series Panel System. Preparing for the bid CS Sales and Estimation carefully reviewed the job and determined it to be ideal for our new next generation 7” storm resistant model DS-7705, which was created after the spec work was done 5 months earlier.
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Market: Healthcare 
Architect: Zimmerman Design Group
Project: University of Wisconsin
Products: B5157
This project will consist of three towers. The first five story tower houses cancer research, including laboratories, imaging centers and treatment facilities. The $133 million dollar biomedical research complex designed by Zimmerman Design Group, required an extensive amount of Louvers. The project includes functional CS drainable and mechanical louvers that are integrated into a massive screen wall.
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