Year round enjoyment with COLA Canopies
Discover COLA Canopies and enjoy your covered outdoor learning area at school every day. No more worrying about what the weather is doing!
The COLA Canopies (Covered Outdoor Learning Areas) by Shade Systems are the solution you need. Enjoy wide clear-span school canopy designs, unique aesthetics, and stunning shapes. These are merely a few of the benefits that this premium designer shade structure has to offer.
Furthermore, with COLA Canopies you can block harmful UV radiation without losing light. The revolutionary fabric used in COLA canopies for school playground coverings make it a front runner as a school shade option. When it comes to shades for schools, we’ve got you covered!
COLA Canopies
Tensile Membrane Series Canopies
We construct our COLA Canopies from the highest quality steelwork. This is rigorously tested to ensure no sub-standard materials. Therefore, these structures with their graceful curves will set your school’s outdoor learning area apart instantly. Additionally they are available in a wide selection of fabrics ranging from medium to very high light transmission and at any size for your convenience.
Shade Systems design and manufacture our COLA canopies entirely in New Zealand. We also offer an unlimited range of colour options for the steelwork, should your structure need to match or blend into an existing colour scheme.
Multiple Functions
Our Covered Outdoor Learning Areas provide shade for schools with multiple functions and expand what your school can do. When considering your school shade structures, our COLA school canopies are ideal for playground cover or sports arena coverings.
High Quality Investment
These playground covering structures are a high investment item. Thus we dedicate ourselves to ensuring you get exactly what you want. In view of achieving this, we offer the following services to you as a customer:
COLA (Covered Outdoor Learning Area)
Large Clearspan Canopies
ENJOY COMPLETE WEATHER
PROTECTION ALL YEAR ROUND
Shade Systems offer a turn-key solution. ‘Your Complete Project Management’ when it comes to your COLA Canopies project. It is not just about the structure itself. We go beyond the installation of the COLA and offer extra’s, like drainage, surface options, seating, hoops, fencing, lighting and PA systems.
COLA Information Overview


COLA (Covered Outdoor Learning Areas)
Court Canopy – for covered outdoor sports
OPTOMISE YOUR OUTDOOR SPACES
Do you want to maximise your outdoor sports time and use your sports courts rain, hail or shine? Then the Court Canopy by Shade Systems is your solution. Not only are you getting more ‘outdoor’ exercise time, but the Court Canopy also helps to create more revenue for your club or sports trust by offering year-round activity.
Court Canopy Information Overview
COLA (Covered Outdoor Learning Spaces)
Cola Canopy Ironman Series
THE ‘ROBUST’ STEEL STRUCTURE
The Ironman Series offer a 100% protection from harmful UV rays. Furthermore, they allow for superior air flow and keeps the space dry in wet weather. In addition, features we offer with our steel framed structures and covered outdoor learning areas include partial or total wall cladding for extra protection, padded round posts for safety and curved rooflines to give buildings an attractive finish.
COLA Ironman Series Information Overview
