Shade Solutions for Every Business: How Awnings Can Boost Your Commercial Space
Creating an inviting environment for customers is key for any business. While instant aesthetic upgrades like signage, outdoor seating and planters help, one aspect that often gets overlooked is weather protection and shade solutions. After all, harsh sunlight, heat, glare and rains are a given with outdoor spaces. But with some strategic shading systems, you can enable customers to comfortably enjoy shared community areas around your business.
Movable acrylic or fabric awnings mounted over entrances, storefronts, sidewalk cafes, drive-thrus and external waiting areas provide excellent solar control. Keep them retracted during cooler or overcast days to let natural light in. Give your customers the power to control relief from the elements with manual or automated awnings. Modern sensor-based units automatically extend awnings when sunlight intensity rises beyond thresholds.
Increase indoor climate control by blocking intense overhead sunlight before it even hits glass windows and doors. Visibility and natural ventilation remain intact despite cover above. Utilizing wind sensors, retractable awnings can also automatically fold away in case of sudden strong gusts to prevent damage. With durability enhancing features like waterproof, fade-resistant and anti-mildew canvas fabrics and rust-proof aluminum frames designed to withstand the pressures of commercial usage, these systems have longevity.
You can even use awnings for promotional purposes! Vibrant graphic printed signage/logo awnings double up as eye-catching marketing. Passersby can spot your brand identity and exact location from a distance. Unique shaped awnings and structures customized to complement building architecture increase visual differentiation in busy areas. Provide your local neighborhood a welcomed spot to take a break from the sun while spontaneously attracting new walk-in traffic.
Want to facilitate outdoor seating at your restaurant, bar or café without exposing diners to harsh elements? Stationary aluminum pergola covers with breathable polycarbonate roofing increase protected area for patio furniture. Drape vines or hanging plants around the structures. Add built-in accent lighting for evening ambience. Integrated heating systems on their undersides expand seasons of operation through colder months.
Retractable shading solutions require an initial investment but the long-term benefits for your operations make them well worth it. Contact ecoshades to understand options suitable for your commercial space and budget!