Your local park is an essential part of your neighbourhood. It encourages outdoor activity, physical exercise, appreciation for nature, and social connection.
However, it is important to make sure your local park is safe and practical. Regardless of the temperature of your area, a park should always provide available shade from the sun. Hence, a fixed shade structure is more than an optional extra, it is a site development essential to safeguarding people’s skin and creating cool and comfortable places for people to relax, play, and enjoy the outdoors.
High quality shade to protect from sun exposure …
In Australia, ultraviolet radiation from the sun is at levels that can cause damage to your skin throughout most of the year, even on cool and cloudy days. When the UV level is at 3 or higher it can dramatically increase the risk of skin damage and cancer.
Furthermore, Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer worldwide with almost all cases caused by overexposure to UV (ultraviolet light).
Protecting our children from harmful UV is just as important as getting them outside and playing. It was actually found that high sun exposure in the first 10 years of life more than doubles the risk of developing melanoma skin cancer later in life.
Case study: Wirraway Park Polyedge Shade Structure
With over forty years of experience building bespoke and robust shade designs in Australia and overseas, Shade to Order is your one-stop destination for purpose built, durable, and genuinely captivating shade structures that do more than provide shade. We completed this shade structure located near Thornton, NSW in 2018 and ever since it has provided locals and visitors with a safe, shaded, and waterproof reserve for children to play in for hours.
Wirraway Park experiences extreme hot and dry weather, hence one of our engineered tension membrane structures was required which would endure all forms of weather as well as last decades. No compromise should be taken with shade structures, especially when there are children playing underneath.
The shade sail’s three-dimensional design and steel columns have provided local families with outstanding protection from the elements. This structure has been architecturally designed in conjunction with sun and shade studies to allow for superior shade and weather protection. Shade To Order have worked closely with the playground designers to ensure an aesthetically pleasing end result.
You can read more about this project on our website: https://shadetoorder.com.au/wirraway-park/
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If you are interested in your very own shade structure, we are available to offer expert advice
and design input to ensure that you are given a quality tension membrane shade structure. Contact us today to discuss our structural and form finding analysis service.
Give us a call if you would like more information. Phone (+61) 2 4942 5793
