Duo-Gard Blog

If presentation is everything, how do you make it informative, innovative and impressive today? If you’re a student, researcher or industry professional in the creative arts, associated with Georgia State University, you splash it over an interactive display screen 10 feet high by 41 feet wide embedded into an illuminated, curved translucent wall 20 feet…

What does $96 million buy today? For Springfield, Massachusetts, it bought the return of a historic past and the giant step toward a dynamic future with the massive renovation of Union Station. Enjoying a heyday in the 1920s, the train station closed in 1973 due to declining use. Empty for over 40 years, it re-opened…

The design team at Parkhill, Smith & Cooper Inc. wanted to create an entrance “you can’t help but notice” for the new West Texas Food Bank in Midland. “We wanted an attraction, a focal point, to help clients and volunteers find the building,” says RJ Lopez, AIA. “And we wanted to make people smile.” The…

Do you see bicycle shelters as drab, uninspiring, utilitarian structures? Then you haven’t seen the one in the Bloomfield NJ train station. Commuters who bike to this station park in a custom Duo-Gard Bike Safe shelter located on the first floor of the parking garage. Above the bike racks, murals line the walls. “The murals…

Too bad Dorothy was so eager to leave Kansas. She should have simply moved to Overland Park. While it’s not the Emerald City, the 189,000 residents here can boast of living in one of the healthiest, happiest and least-stressed areas of America, according to 2017 accolades from Niche, Wallethub, Smartasset and others. Overland Park claims…

Dating back to 1939, the Kennon Observatory at the University of Mississippi in Oxford is a campus focal point. Its grounds also include a bus transit hub for Ole Miss, with some 2,000 – 4,000 students, faculty and visitors passing through every day. Until 2016, they were served by a single small bus shelter. That…

Bicycle facility owners, operators and users have an advanced approach to security and convenience with the new Secura-Gard System app announced by Duo-Gard Industries. The company’s Secura-Gard System is a turn-key approach to easily and effectively implementing secured electronic access plus data monitoring and collection for bike facilities with the full range of applications, including…

A rainbow of races from Latino to African American to Native American to Asian is served by El Centro de la Raza in Seattle. Since its founding in 1972, this multi-cultural agency has aimed to build unity across social and economic sectors. Recent renovation of its historic buildings include a performance piazza at the south…

How can you accommodate smokers and bikers who must share a small space? The car rental agency at an East Coast international airport did it with two shelters from Duo-Gard. The company’s extensive and diverse product line enabled the agency to easily achieve three important objectives for their employees. Separate smokers and eliminate confrontations with…

The architect’s design of a new bus maintenance facility for Waterbury CT called for the integration of two very different panels to create a façade with high natural light, security and energy efficiency. The resulting façade for the 180,000-square-foot building integrates translucent daylighting panels by Duo-Gard with metal insulating panels by Kingspan. “This is the…