Shade & structure
Sun shading louvres and brise soleil panels
Shading a facade from the outside beats any blind on the inside. Stop the heat before it reaches the glass and the room never has to be cooled back down.
- Material
- Aluminium & ACM composite, up to 2 mm
- Finish
- Powder coated or spray painted, any colour
- Cutting
- CNC laser cut and engraved in-house
- Warranty
- 12 months
The work
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Why it is built this way
Louvre depth and angle are set from your elevation and orientation. A west facade in Johannesburg needs a very different blade to a north facade in Durban, and treating them the same is how buildings end up too hot and too dark at once.
This is where specifiers usually want drawings rather than a brochure. Everything is issued as CAD for approval, and we are happy to work directly against your elevation drawings.
- 01
Heat stopped outside the glass
Far more effective than internal blinds, and it does not cost you the view.
- 02
Angled for your elevation
Blade depth, spacing and angle calculated from orientation — not a one-size louvre.
- 03
Drawn for approval
Issued as CAD against your elevations so the consultant team can sign it off before anything is cut.
Choose the cut
Any pattern, cut into this product
Shown as standard in Reed. Open area is the specification — it decides how much light, air and view gets through.
How this one gets made
Four steps, one workshop
- Step 01
Measure
Send the opening. Rough is fine — a photo with a tape in it beats a perfect drawing.
- Step 02
Draw
We draw your actual panel at full scale and you approve the CAD before anything is cut.
- Step 03
Cut
CNC laser cut, then powder coated or sprayed, on our own machines in Prospecton.
- Step 04
Fit
Flat-packed with fixings and a drill template, or fitted by our team or an approved installer.
Full specification
- Material
- Aluminium & ACM composite, up to 2 mm
- Finish
- Powder coated or spray painted, any colour
- Cutting
- CNC laser cut and engraved in-house
- Warranty
- 12 months
- Design inputs
- Elevation drawings, orientation, glazing spec
- Documentation
- CAD issued for approval before cutting
Coming soon · instant ballpark estimator
Size, pattern and finish in, a price range out. Until then, send us the dimensions and you will have a real number back within a working day.
Get a price →Questions people actually ask
How do you decide the blade angle?
From the orientation of the facade and the sun path at your latitude, weighted to the hours the space is actually occupied. Send elevations and we will come back with a proposal.
Can you work from our drawings?
Yes, and we prefer it. Send DWG or PDF elevations and we will draw the shading against them and issue CAD for approval.
Is this suitable for a commercial facade?
For the shading panels, yes. Anything requiring structural or wind-load certification needs an engineer on your side — we supply the cut aluminium, not the structural sign-off.
Often specified together
Pergolas
A pergola is only as good as its blade spacing. Get it right and you sit in dappled shade all afternoon; get it wrong and you have built a sculpture you never use.
View →Window screens
Most window screening in South Africa looks like security first and architecture never. A cut panel does the same job for privacy and shade, and looks like it was meant to be there.
View →Privacy screens
A privacy screen is a light calculation. Too closed and you get a wall; too open and you get a fence. We set the aperture so you keep the breeze and lose the neighbours.
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Tell us the opening. We’ll draw the panel.
Rough dimensions are fine — we confirm every measurement on the CAD before cutting. No obligation, and no pushy follow-up.