Public Shade Structures

SHADE STRUCTURES - FREE STANDING

Our environment is getting warmer. A lack of shade, large expanses of heat trapping asphalt and concrete in smaller localities exacerbates these heat islands. However there are four ways local councils and government are trying to reverse this trend. Use cool materials. Create tree canopies. Use shade structures - permanent or removable and evaporative cooling. While tree canopies are one of the best ideas we noticed that there are a lot of areas in the built environment where trees just can't be planted. Our solution was to create free standing stade structures. These attach directly to the Large Planters and there are various options

Green Arbour

A world first, built for Ipswich City Council this is a free standing Arbour designed to shade footpaths. The aim of the Arbour is to cool and provide seating in areas where there is high heat and little shade.

A modification of our Street Planters to enable the Arbour to span the footpath.The distance between spans is adjustable to take into consideration light poles, parking meters, signage, services. With a maximum span of 6m between frames.

The Arbour can also hang lighting and shade cloths (that can be removed or location changed as the plants grow) span the system.