The cheapest time to canopy a car park is while it is being built. Foundations, conduit routes and pavement levels are all being set on this project anyway. Designing the canopy in now removes a future mobilisation and avoids retrofitting into finished pavement.
What the canopy does for the site
One mobilisation instead of two
Footings and conduit go in with the civil works already programmed, rather than being cut into a finished car park in a later capital round.
Solar, shade and EV in one structure
Generation, weather cover and the cable pathway for future chargers all come from the same asset, specified once.
Winter shade is not the point, hail and frost are
In the Central West a canopy protects vehicles from hail and frost as well as summer sun, which is a staff retention detail on a regional campus.
A repeatable specification
The canopy is an engineered product line rather than a bespoke design per site, so it can be written into a standard car park specification for other projects in the pipeline.
Why now, on this project
Health Infrastructure delivers new car parking across the NSW capital program, and specifying a canopy at design stage is materially cheaper than retrofitting one. The figures here are indicative of what that adds and what it returns.
The canopy drawn below delivers 647 kWp, about 0.91 GWh a year on site, for $1.32M of base scope. Every figure comes from a scaled layout on the car park and our pricing engine.
Drawn and priced
The canopy below was drawn to scale on the actual car park and priced through our engine. Figures are preliminary, ex-GST, subject to site assessment: 647 kWp, about 0.91 GWh a year generated on site, for $1.32M of base scope.
Bathurst Base HospitalWest Bathurst, NSW
Prelim PP-HI-001
647 kWpSystem size
~0.91 GWh/yrGenerated on site
2,693 m²Canopy coverage
836Solar modules
$1.32MBase scope, ex-GST ($2.04/W)
30Structural columns
Drawn from current satellite imagery. To be re-drawn on the redevelopment car park drawings. EV charging is not in this price and can be added.
Base scope is the canopy structure, install, civil, lighting, safety and engineering. EV charging is shown as an option. Site transport, trenching and battery are not included and can be added.
Proven on live campuses
Canyon Solar factory-builds solar canopies that turn large car parks into onsite generation and shade. We have delivered them for Woolworths, across six sites, and for IGA, AstraZeneca and CSIRO. The AstraZeneca canopy went up on an active pharmaceutical campus and the client confirmed it was three times faster than in-situ construction, with 75% fewer high-risk on-site labour hours. That is the closest comparison we have to building around a working hospital.
IGA Baranduda, VIC. A Canyon Solar delivery.
The Grand Canyon
For a lot this size the standout design is the Grand Canyon: a continuous, full-coverage canopy with no gaps over the driving lanes. It gives the highest solar density in our range and a clean roofline that reads as a designed part of the site. Installs can be staged where sections of the car park must stay open.
Grand Canyon, a continuous full-coverage canopy with integrated battery and EV charging.
Any site, in minutes
This site took minutes to draw. We can do the same for any other campus in the network, live: draw the canopy to scale on the car park, size it, and price it while you watch. We can also run the economics on your own inputs, whatever tariff, self-consumption or funding structure applies, so the figures sit inside your own business case format.
How to proceed
A specified option in the next package
The figures here are at a level you can carry into a capital submission or write into the scope of a future car park or campus works package.
A cost reference to test
Run our layout and pricing against your own assumptions before anything goes to market, so the number in your business case is one you have checked.
Every canopy is engineered, factory-built and installed by the team that has delivered 16 projects across three states.
We are not asking for a procurement decision. If it is useful, we will work to the current car park drawings rather than satellite imagery, and provide a specification clause and indicative rate that can sit in a standard car park package for other projects.