Canopies and shelters for colleges and universities
Colleges and universities cover people rather than play: sheltered social and dining space between lectures, walkways across a campus, entrance cover at busy buildings and cycle shelters for staff and students. We design each to the campus and its footfall.
- Campus circulation
- Covered social & dining
- Entrance cover
- Cycle & secure storage
A campus runs on movement between buildings and time spent outside them. Covered walkways, sheltered courtyards and canopy-covered social and dining areas give students somewhere usable in any weather, and cycle shelters support a campus travel plan.
School Canopies works to a campus specification, supplying the drawings, structural calculations and information estates and procurement need, and installing around a live campus.
The angle here is further and higher education; the underlying products, steel, timber and tensile, plus walkways and shelters, are covered on the type pages linked below.
Campus-scale
Walkways, social and dining cover sized to a busy further or higher-education site.
Spec and tender-ready
The drawings, specification and information estates and procurement need to tender a scheme.
Active travel
Cycle shelters and secure storage for staff and students across the campus.
Canopy types for this sector
Canopies for colleges & universities questions
Do you work with college and university estates teams?
Yes. We supply the drawings, structural calculations and specification a college or university estates or procurement team needs, and install to the agreed programme around a live campus.
Can you cover outdoor social and dining areas?
Yes. We roof courtyards, social spaces and outdoor dining so they stay usable in any weather, on a steel, timber or tensile structure to suit the span and the setting.
Send us your site and we’ll design the canopy
Tell us the setting, roughly how big the area is and what you want it to do. Our design team comes back with a drawing, a specification and a price, with no obligation.