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Gatehouse panel plus a steel canopy

Shanghai Songnan phase 1 is exactly that pair: gatehouse aluminum panel and a steel canopy.

Entrances, gatehouses, and garage canopies

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Entrances, gatehouses, and garage canopies

Gatehouses, unit entrance portals, and garage-entry canopies for large residential plots.

Two materials, one entrance

The panel cladding and the steel canopy meet at a fascia. Draw that junction. A panel thickness from the cladding draft does not design the steel.

Signage and lighting holes

Gatehouses carry signs and lights. Holes cut after the panels are coated are a second fabrication. Mark them on the elevation before the panels are ordered.

Who holds the canopy load

The aluminum panel does not carry the canopy. Show whether the steel posts go to a foundation or the beam ties back to the gatehouse structure. A fascia drawing without that load path is not ready to fabricate.

Notes on this scope

Entrances, skylights, and cladding beside the window package

Entrances, skylights, and cladding beside the window package

Gatehouses, garage canopies, steel skylights, and stone or aluminum cladding are listed as their own rows, not as options on a window.

Entrances, gatehouses, and garage canopies
Unit portals that repeat across a plot

Unit portals that repeat across a plot

A large residential plot repeats one portal many times. Count the types, then the quantity of each.

Entrances, gatehouses, and garage canopies
Garage canopy and the vehicle path

Garage canopy and the vehicle path

The draft says the projection follows the vehicle path. The path is a drawing, not a guess at the ramp.

Entrances, gatehouses, and garage canopies
West plot and east plot are different packages

West plot and east plot are different packages

North of the Taicang party school, the west package has a gatehouse and the east package does not.

Entrances, gatehouses, and garage canopies

Other notes

What to send with a window or curtain wall inquiry

What to send with a window or curtain wall inquiry

A usable inquiry names the project, the scope, the area basis, and the drawings. Contract sums in the company table are not unit rates.

Aluminum windows and doors
Windows and curtain wall on the same plot

Windows and curtain wall on the same plot

The record shows both standalone window contracts and packages that put the wall, the windows, and the canopy in one agreement.

Curtain walls
Thermal-break aluminum on a residential plot

Thermal-break aluminum on a residential plot

A plot package needs the series named on the elevation, not a brand adjective in the email.

Aluminum windows and doors