Capital One’s new Tyson’s Corner, VA headquarters is - by design - a multi-skyscraper campus that adds to the region’s skyline and includes infrastructure updates to the surrounding trafficways, multi-use residential and commercial spaces, and a 1.5 acre greenspace for public use. The primary goal of the project is to co-locate the company’s 7000 local employees to a single campus and enhance their work-life balance while reducing or eliminating commuting. A major part of the project includes comprehensive amenity additions and updates to communal areas of the original headquarters building - colloquially known as ‘M1’. 

In 2020, construction teams completed an upgrade to the 6th floor ‘Hub’ space of M1 with a steel-base and veneer-paneled island, oval pendant-mounted fixtures, and a specialty wave-like baffle ceiling. Originally designed to incorporate 2” thick x 6” tall solid beams, Rulon worked with the design team on the wave ceiling to shrink the size of the beams and reduce the overall cost. At 3/4" thick, solid MDF baffles could be machined on a CNC router and then edgebanded instead of requiring the extensive milling processes of machining solid wood components. Additionally, opting for 3/4" thick baffles eliminated the need for multi-part beam construction, reducing the amount of assembly time required. The ceiling is composed of two independent but interlocking systems: the Baffle system that comprises the wave-like aesthetic of the area over the island and kitchen, and a matched profile-size Panel Grille system filling out the remainder of the room.

Para garantizar el éxito de la instalación, se elaboraron más de veinte páginas de planos de taller en los que se detallaban el perfil, el tamaño y la ubicación exactos de cada uno de los 143 deflectores, junto con la disposición y las instrucciones de instalación. Aunque la documentación proporcionada resultó útil, el proyecto no habría sido un éxito sin la experiencia tanto del contratista general para la coordinación multiprofesional como del contratista de techos para el corte sobre el terreno, la colocación de los paneles y la instalación de los componentes. El proyecto se completó a toda prisa, sin problemas ni retrasos, lo que dio como resultado una aplicación de techo de rejilla de panel y deflector hermosa y única.