Permanent, engineered steel shade structures for Texas schools, churches, parks, and institutions. Built and installed by ShadePro. We're their Texas rep - your local point of contact from first walkthrough to final punchlist.
A freestanding permanent shade structure is a code-compliant, engineered outdoor canopy - a powder-coated steel frame set in poured concrete footings, tensioned with heavy-duty commercial knit fabric, permitted like any other structure on your property. These are the covers you see over school playgrounds, bleacher sections, church gathering spaces, and municipal parks across Texas.
ShadePro has been designing, engineering, fabricating, and installing these structures out of New Braunfels, Texas, since 2004. We're their authorized Central Texas representative. What that means for you: one local person who understands the product, helps you specify the right structure for your site, and stays with the project through ShadePro's engineering, permitting, and install. Your structure is built and installed by ShadePro - warranty, code compliance, and engineering all run through them. We're the person you call.
Steel frame: 20 years. Fabric: 10 years. Wind: 90 MPH gusts - not a general guideline, but a specification the engineer stamps and ShadePro stands behind. Each footing is sized to the span, height, and soil at your site.
Class A fire-rated commercial knit fabric blocks up to 95% of UV and drops ambient temperature 10–20°F under the canopy. In a Texas summer, that's the difference between an outdoor space people use and one they avoid May through October.
Footings are sized per structure and per site, not one-size-fits-all. At commercial and institutional sites, underground utilities are located with HydroVac excavation before any mechanical digging. The fabric is precision-tensioned on install - the difference between a 10-year panel and one that ponds and tears in three.
23+ fabric colors and 11 powder coat colors, matched to school colors, municipal brand standards, or architectural specifications. Before any steel is cut, you approve a full 3D rendering of your structure on your actual site footprint.
Every install is permitted. ShadePro prepares the engineering documentation your jurisdiction requires - structural drawings, footing specs, wind-load calcs - and runs the permit process alongside the project. For schools and government clients, this isn't optional; it's the baseline.
You don't chase a fabricator in another state and an install crew from a third. CanopyWorx is the one Texas-based person you call - from the first site walk through to final walkthrough - while ShadePro handles the engineering, permitting, and on-site work behind the scenes.
Playgrounds, outdoor cafeterias, breezeways, and gathering spaces where UV protection, temperature reduction, and Class A fire-rated fabric are a duty-of-care decision - and BuyBoard procurement makes purchasing straightforward.
Community parks, aquatic centers, splash pads, outdoor amphitheaters, and sports complexes. Most municipal buyers are BuyBoard eligible.
Cantilever structures engineered to cover bleacher seating without support columns in the seating footprint - overhead coverage, clear sightlines.
Covered parking for dealerships, corporate campuses, HOAs, and commercial facilities. Vehicle protection, employee amenity, customer-visible investment.
Cantilever structures are the standard for car wash bays and service queues - overhead coverage with no posts in the vehicle lane.
Shade over pool decks, viewing areas, and entry zones. Breathable fabric lets hot air escape instead of building up under the canopy.
