Covered walkways are the perfect way to provide shelter in outside areas of your business park. These versatile covers can be installed in a variety of places and are suited for a huge range of uses, from sheltering pedestrian pathways to linking busy buildings together.
But more than just providing shelter, covered walkways can add a new dimension to your business park, bringing in more customers or clients and contributing to your business branding.
We asked out experts at Shelter Solutions, where can you use covered walkways on business parks? Here are their excellent answers!
Pedestrian pathways
The most commonplace for covered walkways in a business park is pedestrian pathways. Your business park will have a surprising number of walking routes, and these connect buildings, bus shelters, entrances, offices, shops and many more destinations.
With such notorious weather in the UK, you can never be quite sure when it’s going to rain. Employees, customers and clients will appreciate the benefits of having their pedestrian pathways covered when that first downpour hits the business park in winter.
In summer, you never know when it might suddenly rain either, but covered walkways also provide a wonderful break from the bright sunlight too. Sheltering people from the elements is a great way to keep staff and customers happy.
Car parks
There might be a maze of pedestrian pathways snaking their way through your business park, but if there’s one point you can cover, it should be the route from the car park to your main entrance.
Having a covered walkway connecting your car park and entrance will give employees and customers the chance to escape the rain or the sunshine on their way from the car to the business park.
At the same time, you can have a bespoke covered walkway designed that contributes to your business ethics, provides space for advertising, or simply adds to the look of the business park.
Linking buildings together
Another important and practical use for covered walkways is connecting buildings together. You’ll often find covered walkways are built between important and busy buildings, such as the main office building and the on-site restaurant or between two departments of the same shop.
This is a great way to protect everyone on the business park from the elements, as well as providing a structured route between different sections of the business park.
Entrance shelters
Entrance shelters aren’t technically covered walkways, but they provide a very similar function and purpose. Connecting your covered walkways to entrance shelters is another way to create a continuous shelter within your business park and happier staff and customers, who are protected from the weather when they are making their way inside the buildings, shops or offices on your site.
Get the right advice
Finding the ideal place for your new covered walkways can be a difficult decision, but that’s why our experts here at Shelter Solutions are ready to help you. Give us a call today to find out how our friendly and professional staff can plan and construct covered walkways on your business park.