Covered Walkway Canopies

Our covered walkways are specifically tailored structures, available in a range of sizes, shapes and designs – all created to the client’s brief. Canopies can be manufactured from tensile fabrics or polycarbonate.

• Tensile fabrics – offer opportunity for more complex and architecturally interesting shapes to be created than more solid roof coverings. The fabric roof will also allow for corporate branding to personalise the canopy, as well as absorbing sound more effectively than a solid polycarbonate roof covering, creating a more pleasant ambient environment for those using the canopy for shelter.
• Polycarbonate – offers a more cost effective and functional choice, as well as having the flexibility to allow sides to fully enclose the structure. Both polycarbonate and fabric walkway canopies can be modified to allow solutions for rainwater collection, CCTV and bespoke lighting schemes.

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Walkway canopies can be freestanding or attached to existing buildings. We can design with straight and simple lines, or develop structures that take on curved, even wave like form. We have designed, engineered, manufactured and installed a number of covered walkways for our clients, all serve different purposes and look visually very different – yet the purpose and end result is the same – the effective provision of a weatherproof protected space.

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The team at New Wolsey Theatre approached us with architectural design brief, requiring a covered walkway structure that would deliver an impactful, attractive addition to the theatre frontage, as well as provide shelter and shade for their customers as they waited.

The resulting walkway canopy has the distinctive elegant form of a tensile fabric structure, with the PVC coated gold fabric membrane adding to the impact of the overall design aesthetic. The canopy is supported by a series of cantilevered steel masts and stainless-steel cables from the theatre frontage, so the fabric canopy required less structural steel support, delivering an elegant look with clear spans of column-free space.

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Similarly, when constructing the walkway cover in Penzance, we needed to accommodate the often-unpredictable elements of being on a quay. Our team ensured the tensile fabric structure provided a durable, functional, and stylish covered walkway solution that offers both shade and wet weather protection. This highly effective canopy is made from fully waterproof and UV block coated PVC coated polyester membrane, with the steel structure engineered to resist the extremes of the British coastline, all year round.

Take a look at our fabric covered walkway on Penzance Quay >