Four wheely great reasons to install a bike shelter in your grounds

It’s National Bike Week – the perfect time to shine a spotlight on the many benefits of encouraging sustainable travel to and from your site, from boosting wellbeing to cutting carbon emissions.

In recent years cycling has soared in popularity. And it’s easy to see why.  It’s cost-effective, comes with numerous health benefits, and offers a far more sustainable way of getting from A to B than travelling by car.

The good news? Promoting sustainable bike-led commutes to your site has never been easier! At Fordingbridge, we offer a range of aluminium and timber frame bike shelter solutions, with shelters in all different sizes and designs from mono-pitched to barrel-vaulted and roof-only to fully enclosed.

Four benefits of installing a bike shelter

Although relatively simple structures, bike canopies and shelters offer numerous benefits from the minute they’re installed:

• An effective way to promote environmentally friendly commutes
• Create a cleaner look on your site with designated storage
• Signal your commitment to sustainability in a high profile, cost-effective way
• Can be made even more environmentally friendly with green roofs or solar panels

Feeling inspired?

Check out the case studies of a primary school and two universities that have recently taken the plunge and installed bike shelters in their grounds:

• University of Cambridge – the university worked closely with our design team to create six shelters for their contemporary Biomedical campus. The sleek aluminium shelters not only provide storage for hundreds of bikes and enhance the look of the site, but because each shelter is topped with a sedum green roof, they bring significant additional environmental benefits too. One square metre of green roof can capture up to 5kg of CO₂ annually!
• University of the West of England – a barrel-vaulted, fully enclosed, timber framed bike shelter provides attractive, fully weather-proof protection for student bikes
• Gomer Infant School – this primary school created a bike shelter that not only provides weather protection for up to 50 bikes but doubles up as weather protection for sporting events and school fairs – genius!

Thinking of joining the cycle revolution? Get in touch with our team today. We’d love to help you promote sustainable travel to and from your site…

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