One Meridian Tower — 42,000 sqft of unitized glazing
Behind the scenes of a unitized curtain wall install completed two weeks ahead of schedule.
One Meridian Tower represented one of the most complex envelopes our team has delivered — 42,000 square feet of unitized curtain wall across 14 stories, with a mix of vision, spandrel, and shadow-box panels.
Unitized systems are prefabricated in the shop as complete floor-to-floor modules, then hoisted and hung on pre-set anchors. The advantage is speed and quality control; the risk is that a single anchor tolerance error compounds across an entire elevation.
We laser-surveyed every anchor location before a single unit shipped, cross-checked against the structural steel as-builts, and pre-loaded the hoist sequence in the shop drawings. The install crew averaged 22 units per shift with zero rejected panels.
Handover came in two weeks ahead of the GC's schedule, with a punch list of under 30 items across the entire envelope. The building was weather-tight for interior trades six weeks earlier than the baseline schedule projected.