About Span Design - Fabric Structure Designers
Span Design has been designing and installing fabric structures since 2002, covering the whole of the UK and Ireland. Combining expert design skills and on site knowledge enables us to provide efficient and economical solutions for all bespoke canopies and tensile structures.
Our mission is to seek a simple solution with the best detailing to produce fabric structures tailored to fulfil the requirements of functionality, aesthetics and budget.
Managed and owned by Phil Windall, Span Design works with specialist consultants to ensure that all of our fabric structures are designed and engineered in accordance with current British Standards. We provide full calculations and a Maintenance and Inspection plan for each of our canopies.
The actual process of cutting out and welding all the fabric panels together is carried out by a highly experienced team who take great pride and care in their work and who have been producing our membranes for several years. We provide them with very specific and detailed information which enables them to consistently deliver accurate, top quality fabrications across the whole range of available materials.
The supporting structure is made by our specialist steelwork sub contractor. Whether mild steel, stainless or aluminium, the quality of workmanship is of paramount importance and because of the normal complexity of fabrication, we go to great lengths in the design and production of workshop drawings to make sure we arrive on site with steelwork that meets all structural requirements and that can be assembled quickly and easily by the installation team.
In this age of 'computer everything', it's easy to forget that bespoke steelwork fabrication still relies on craftsmen with tape measures and common sense, looking at drawings. The design of the steelwork has to reflect the need for a simple and accurate fabrication and we pride ourselves on the quality of our structures.
Span Design infosheet