{"id":206,"date":"2022-04-17T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T13:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2023-03-01T10:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:14:12","slug":"a-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/a-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I thought that I&#8217;d start by looking at some design work we have done in the past. So over the next few post I will highlight some of the projects starting with a canopy we designed for a residential \/ commercial development in north London. This is it almost completed on site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-id=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_6176-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_6176-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_6176-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption wp-element-caption\">Canopy near completion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A design of this type starts with the finished panel layout, it has to meet the architects brief and be flexible so that the factory cut panels will adapt to &#8220;site condition&#8221; without modification on site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1336\" height=\"1048\" data-id=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-3-1.jpg 1336w, https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-3-1-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-3-1-1024x803.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1336px) 100vw, 1336px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then the design of the support structure begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1345\" height=\"1127\" data-id=\"208\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-1.jpg 1345w, https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-1-1024x858.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1345px) 100vw, 1345px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only does the structure have to connect with the outer panels at the required fixing points it has to be able to support the panels and environmental loads (wind and snow).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1219\" height=\"904\" data-id=\"214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-Sub1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-Sub1-edited.jpg 1219w, https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-Sub1-edited-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Canopy-Sub1-edited-1024x759.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1219px) 100vw, 1219px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought that I&#8217;d start by looking at some design work we have done in the past. So over the next few post I will highlight some of the projects starting with a canopy we designed for a residential \/ commercial development in north London. This is it almost completed on site. A design of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/a-blast-from-the-past\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A blast from the past<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ross-tech.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}