Canopies, Covered walkways, Insulated buildings for Schools & Colleges

Outdoor Canopies, Covered Walkways and Play Areas for Colleges and Schools

Fordingbridge structures are ideal for a range of uses in education establishments, including primary school play areas, bicycle storage, secondary schools and further education colleges and university covered walkways and outdoor canopies. We have worked with a number of education establishments across the UK and offer a full bespoke service as well as a range of budget-conscious off-the-peg solutions for school buildings.

Our curved roof structures include metal awnings, outdoor canopies and covered pedestrian walkways as well as bespoke fully enclosed insulated buildings.

Covered walkway uses include: Linking of two buildings providing weather protection, cover for queuing areas.

Outdoor canopies can be used for: outdoor play areas for infants & toddlers, covered outdoor space for leisure or learning, sports facilities, outdoor waiting facilities, entrance porches, bike shelters and entrance canopies, outdoor eating areas.

Insulated school buildings have many uses including: lecture theatres, sports halls and dining halls/cafeterias.

Our outdoor canopies, awnings and covered walkways are offered with laminated timber frames or steel frames, with the latter in hot dip galvanised finish as standard with RAL/BS paint finish also available.

Fabric roof screens – guaranteed for five years - allow 60% light transmission whilst giving 95% UV protection. The triple wall polycarbonate is guaranteed for ten years. Both coverings are fire retardant.

Our insulated buildings are fully L2 Building Regulations compliant, with glazed walling options and curved roofs with the option of composite roofs with or without fixed or opening rooflight sections, alternatively roofs can be part or fully glazed.

The frames are mainly steel in construction with a composite roof and curtain walling with micro rib composite side walls as standard.

We also offer a tension fabric design and construction service, providing a range of elegant design solutions offering permanent structures with a lightweight appearance and minimal structural support but a long life.

The structure is a steel framework with hot-dip galvanised or RAL/BS painted finish, plus fabric membrane offering durability of 10 to 20 years for the PVC membrane, to 25-30 years with the PTFE membrane coating.

Shapes include: cantilevered, hypar, umbrella and double conic. We are continually exploring the application’s possibilities.

Full building regulations calculations and CDM package are available with all structures.