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45 YEARS A SPECIAL ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT TO NEW YORK CONSTRUCTION OF QUALITY CONSTRUCTION A business built on values, quality construction practices and innovation A $139 kitchen built for the Pavilion of Gas at the 1964 World’s Fair was the ﬁrst project for Score Carpentry, the original name of the company that is now Component Assembly Systems. Today with a bonding capacity of $500 million, CAS is one of the nation’s leaders in interior construction. Founded by H. Lewis Rapaport, Chairman and CEO, CAS currently serves more than eight states from six ofﬁces and has completed prominent projects from sports facilities to Las Vegas hotels and museums. Lewis Rapaport recalls the company growing rapidly and expanding into several states in the days following the ﬁrm’s ﬁrst job at the World’s Fair when the company started working with the Beacon Company of Boston. “Beacon was building garden apartments throughout the Northeast, and we were hired to complete all their carpentry contracting through the late ’60 and mid-70s in Pennsylvania, New England, New York, Massachusetts and Virginia,” Rapaport says. “We did all the wood framing in thousands of units.” With expertise in framing, sheathing and the installation of interior trim, CAS produced thousands of wood frame units for builders in both the private and public housing sectors. Growing With Our Clients Throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980s, with the rise of A Component carpenter installs drywall at the new Wynn Encore in Las Vegas. Photo: Bernstein Associates. Carnegie Hall, New York City. HISTORY 4
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