Solar Shield Blinds Featured In Window Fashion VISION Magazine

Solar Shield Blinds is featured in the November/December issue of Window Fashion VISION Magazine in its Extreme Installations feature, which highlights some of the most challenging and unique projects in the industry!

37 Shades, 444 Feet, 66 Feet Above The Kansas River

The article highlights our exterior shades installation at Kansas City’s historic Rock Island Bridge. Our team installed 37 custom motorized exterior patio shades spanning 444 feet, 66 feet above the Kansas River.

One Of The Installs We’re Most Proud Of

This is one of the installs we are most proud of, simply because of the uniqueness of it and the logistics behind some of the challenges we had to work around. Our team had to figure out how to mount the shades to the bridge’s existing steel structure, bring in generators and a crane, and get all 37 shades installed in just five days.

The article walks through what that took:

• A custom build-out attached straight to the bridge’s steel framework, much of it outside the railings.
• Scaffolding over the river, with the wind a factor the whole week.
• No vehicle access, so every shade, tool and part went up flights of stairs by hand, and a crane lifted the shades for the second level.
• No power on site, so generators ran the tools and tested each motorized shade.
• All 37 shades installed, tested and ready by 5 p.m. on day five.

Recognized On A National Stage

We’re excited to see the work of our team recognized on a national stage and grateful for the opportunity to be included among the industry’s standout installations!

Read the full feature in Window Fashion VISION Magazine, or read our own story of the Rock Island Bridge project, with developer Mike Zeller in his own words.