Dive Brief:
- The National Museum of African American History and Culture, to be built in Washington, D.C., will have a curtain wall that will be manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio.
- The project is a bronze and glass-panel structure that manufacturer NorthStar Contracting Inc. says will be supported only at the top of the museum.
- The wall is called the Corona, NorthStar said, and will be in place for the museum's opening in 2016.
Dive Insight:
The museum is top be part of the Smithsonian Institution. The announcement that the contract had gone to an Ohio company came from one of the state's U.S. senators, Sherrod Brown. NorthStar has several government certifications, including being a disadvantaged enterprise, a minority-owned enterprise and an enterprise owned by a veteran with a service-related disability.
