Cantilever Solar Canopies: A Scalable Commercial Parking Lot Solution
Cantilever solar canopies are the answer for solar installers looking for scalable commercial parking lot solutions.
Brooklyn Solar Canopy Co has fully customizable cantilever solar canopies to meet all your client’s installation needs. Our pre-engineered and modular solar canopy design makes building or expanding existing systems easy, helping you to create optimal systems for your clients’ commercial parking lots.
The Benefits of BSCC Cantilever Solar Canopies
Our cantilever solar canopies are an excellent choice if you’re looking for a solar structure with multiple advantages. These are the benefits of this solar canopy product:
Designs Optimized for Smaller Commercial Projects
Many traditional solar canopy models are designed specifically for use in large-scale commercial projects requiring structural steel and heavy machinery. While these solutions certainly have their place, if you work primarily with projects on a smaller scale, you need a solar structure that’s easier to move around and assemble.
Our new aluminum cantilever solar canopy designs are optimized for use in small commercial projects.
Smart Canopies for Commercial Parking Lots
BSCC’s modular solar canopies are engineered to cover commercial parking lots, providing a multi-functional structure that offers clients numerous key advantages.
The solar canopies provide a durable structure on which solar panels can be installed, enabling smaller commercial operations to adopt greener energy solutions at a scale that works for them. Additionally, the design is panel agnostic, and the railing system supports standard and bifacial modules, allowing clients to choose which panels they prefer.
These canopies provide solar shade in parking areas for businesses’ employees and clients, protecting them and their vehicles from the elements. They can also be used as EV charging solar carports, adding to the overall solar canopy ROI.
Due to their design, our cantilever solar canopies have a minimal impact on parking spaces. As they only occupy a small amount of ground space, your commercial clients can maximize their available land and ensure their employees and clients always have ample parking.
Extensive Solar Coverage
As an installer, choosing our cantilever solar canopies will provide your clients with a versatile and highly effective solution. While our designs are lightweight and have minimal impact on parking lot space use, the welded aluminum structure allows them to accommodate 16’ spans. More coverage means more energy means more savings.
Adaptable Solutions for All Terrains
Our unique modular engineering practices allow for highly efficient designs that make building solar canopies for parking lots of all sizes a reality. The cantilever solar canopy range also includes canopies that can be adapted to existing site and terrain conditions.
Whether your project site has a specific slope, grade, or other distinctive topographical features that need to be accounted for, our canopies can be adjusted to suit the landscape while still performing at their peak.
These solar canopies have also been designed to withstand environmental conditions anywhere in the United States. They are a high snow load solar canopy that can handle up to 100psf of snow and cope with wind speeds up to 140mph. With a clean aesthetic, they are the perfect blend of structural robustness and visual appeal.
Sturdy Yet Lightweight Aluminum Construction
Our cantilever solar canopies are constructed from aluminum, giving them an optimal balance of strength and durability. Aluminum is resistant to rusting and requires no painting or maintenance to keep it looking and performing at its best. This material is exceptionally lightweight, while still being hardy enough to withstand demanding environmental conditions.
The lightweight nature of these canopies is a huge plus for installers too, as it allows you to build them on site without the use of heavy equipment. This can reduce the expenses associated with installations, which means you can pass these savings on to your clients to make your services as competitive as possible. It also means that installation can be completed quickly and efficiently, getting your clients’ commercial operations powered without any delay.
Quick and Simple Installation
We’ve designed our cantilever solar canopies to be exceptionally simple to install, saving you time and manpower. Each comes complete with two basic bolt connections and cast in place cages. Simply dig a hole, drop in the cage, pour the concrete and stand up the structure.
Your clients’ solar canopies will also be delivered with a foundation detail. This gives you all the information you need to lay the correct type of foundation for every project, simplifying the process and providing the basis for a durable result every time. Canopies can also receive a structural stamp as needed to comply with any regulations relevant to your installation project.
Locally Fabricated in the US
BSCC’s cantilever solar canopies are manufactured and fabricated in the United States. We use high quality aluminum extruded in the US, and each structure is fabricated in Rhode Island before being delivered to your project site. Our solar canopy products qualify for the domestic content adder for bonus tax credits.
Local fabrication enables us to control the quality and performance of our solar canopies. This, in turn, gives you the opportunity to provide your clients with ideal solar canopy solutions tailored to their needs and expectations. Our solar carports and canopies also ship anywhere in the US, and can be delivered to your installation site regardless of which state, county or region.
Understanding Our Process for Installers
If you want to become an official BSCC solar canopy installer, you can begin the process by creating an account with us. We have designed our system to empower you to deliver an exceptional customer experience, and we provide extensive knowledge about our products.
Once you’ve created your account, you can submit a Project Proposal to our team. This proposal should include a solar design PDF and a solar panel specification sheet. When the team has reviewed your project proposal, we’ll supply you with a quotation and a 3D model of an ideal cantilever solar canopy for your project. We can further provide you with product engineering reports for your project engineer to review if required.
If you’re satisfied with the design and model, you can confirm your order and pay a deposit. BSCC will then start drafting a set of plans for your final review. Your order will take approximately two weeks to be fulfilled depending on size and will be made in an aluminum mill finish unless you have specified powder coating (at additional cost). If applicable, the canopy will be delivered with a customized foundation design, and an engineer’s stamp if requested (charged at a fee of $600 to $1,000).
Once your order is confirmed, fabrication takes place in Providence, Rhode Island. This process will take between three and six weeks. Delivery times will vary according to your project location and required delivery date. When your solar carport or canopy has been delivered, construction will take approximately two days, thanks to our comprehensive installation manuals that lay out each step of the construction process.
We can also review the installation process with your team beforehand to ensure they are confident handling the process from start to finish.
Meet Your Clients’ Solar Canopy Needs with BSCC
BSCC offers exceptional quality, fully modular cantilever solar canopies for every small commercial parking lot.
Contact our team of consultants today to find the ideal solar canopy or solar carport for your next installation project.