Covered walkways are an attractive addition for any business wanting to join two or more buildings together providing protection from the elements.
They are especially ideal for awkward or hard to reach spaces like courtyards and narrow passages because no heavy equipment is needed to install them.
Their modular sleek design also means they can be installed quickly with minimal disruption and easily customised with features such as solar panels, sidewalls and doors.
Our Spaceshade walkways are the perfect location to install solar panels either at the time of installation or at a later date, depending on your needs and budget.
They are designed especially to accommodate two types of solar panels, built in solar panels or standard rail mounted panels.
Both types will help you generate your own electricity, reduce your carbon footprint and slash electricity bills as well as showing your customers your commitment to green energy.
You can add side walls to one or both sides of your walkway canopy for extra protection from the rain or to create a barrier between different parts of your site.
Side walls come in glass, polycarbonate or can be solid depending on your needs and preferences.
You will need to add lighting to the walkway to ensure employees feel safe moving around the site.
Our experts can help you choose integrated lighting to improve ambience and safety especially during darker winter afternoons and evenings.
Depending on the size of the walkway, you may want to consider adding infrared heaters to keep employees and visitors warm in the winter.
Our Spaceshade experts can discuss the type of heating system to suit the space.
Spaceshade walkways are made from powder-coated aluminium which means they are extremely tough and corrosion free.
They are so durable that they are certified to the ACR[M] 001: 2014 standard, which means they can withstand a heavy impact – for example, a person falling onto the roof would cause minimal or no damage to the structure or the roof.
In addition, they are very low maintenance and easy to look after thanks to their non-fragile roofs and have an impressive 25-year life expectancy.
As our climate warms with regular and intense storms becoming more common, it’s vital to build extra capacity in your drainage systems.
This is why Spaceshade gutters have more than double the flow rate of a domestic equivalent therefore cutting the risk of overflow and surface flooding. Their design also makes cleaning and maintenance far easier.
All bolts, screws and rivets are concealed helping the walkway retain its sleek look as well as reducing any possibility of damage or vandalism.
If you’re worried about disruption to your everyday activities, Spaceshade structures are reinforced so they allow for large spans between posts of up to seven metres.
This means we do not to dig as many foundations as you would expect for large structures especially compared to a normal extension, reducing the installation time as well as costs.
We provide full project management so you can have peace of mind from initial groundworks, installation, surfacing and any electrical work.
If you’d like to learn more about our work you can read our case studies or book a call with our experts who will be happy to talk through the process.