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Article: Harmon, Ltd. To Construct Blast-Resistant Curtain Wall for New Las Vegas Federal Building and United States Courthouse.
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- Business Wire
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- February 2, 1999
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MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999--A leader in innovative architectural curtain wall solutions, Harmon, Ltd. has been contracted to design, fabricate, and install a blast-resistant curtain wall to help heighten the level of protection for the Las Vegas Federal Building and United States Courthouse. Included in the project requirements, Harmon, Ltd. provided two full-scale mock-up specimens for bomb blast testing. This is the first building in the country using full scale testing to exhibit the performance of a curtain wall design's resistance to blast loads.
"Up until now, blast-resistant exteriors were monolithic, concrete structures with ...