Custom steel rooftop equipment screening for Dallas and DFW commercial buildings - fabricated to your plan, your finish schedule, and your city's screening requirements, with the lead times and local coordination the DFW market demands.
Dallas and the surrounding DFW municipalities require rooftop mechanical equipment to be screened as part of commercial plan review. Requirements vary by municipality - Dallas proper, Plano, Frisco, Irving, Addison, Richardson, and others each run their own plan-review process - but screening is a standard commercial development expectation across the metro.
Rooftop mechanical equipment must be screened and shown on commercial plan submissions. Commercial plan review - screening height, material, and attachment must be specified on drawings. Dallas commercial plan review expects equipment on rooftop plans with screening called out; municipalities across DFW have similar expectations.
Uptown Dallas mixed-use and high-rise residential, Downtown Dallas office towers and adaptive reuse, Frisco and Allen corporate campus and Class A office, Plano Legacy West and West Plano office and mixed-use, Irving and Las Colinas corporate campus and hospitality, Oak Lawn and Cedar Springs retail and medical office, Deep Ellum creative office and hospitality, Mockingbird Station and Cityplace mixed-use, North Dallas suburban commercial, Addison restaurant corridor, Carrollton and Coppell flex, Garland and Mesquite commercial, Fort Worth Near Southside, Arlington entertainment and retail.
Rooftop plans with screen wall location and height relative to equipment, elevations for screening from primary street view, wind load documentation per ASCE 7, thermal expansion joint details for Texas heat, finish and color callouts for plan review and owner approval.
High-visibility corridors include Stemmons Freeway (I-35E) - major commercial corridor through Northwest Dallas with rooftop sightlines from the elevated highway, LBJ Freeway (I-635) - the ring road with visibility from Addison to Mesquite, Dallas North Tollway - the prestige spine from Uptown through Plano and Frisco, Central Expressway (US-75) - dense commercial from Downtown through Richardson and Plano, Loop 12 (Northwest Highway), MacArthur Boulevard and Las Colinas Urban Center, Greenville Avenue, McKinney Avenue and Cedar Springs in Uptown. Flat terrain and elevated highways mean screening reads from the road.
Summer heat limits outdoor work hours - rooftop install in Dallas summers often starts at dawn to beat heat indexes past 105°F, Roof surface temperatures on dark TPO and BUR routinely exceed 160°F in July and August, Hailstorm season (March-June) affects scheduling and finish selection, Multiple DFW municipalities mean plan-review details vary, Legacy and Las Colinas campuses often require contractor credentialing and strict access, Traffic on I-35, I-635, and the DNT affects freight windows into Dallas proper.
We are familiar with plan-review processes across the DFW metro - Dallas, Plano, Frisco, Irving, Addison, and Richardson included. Our shop drawings address each municipality's submittal expectations. For corporate campuses, we build credentialing and access into the schedule from the start.
TGIC polyester powder coat with high-UV resistance - standard for Dallas-area projects. Light and medium neutrals (warm gray, tan, beige, cream) that reflect heat and match North Texas brick and stucco. Galvanized substrate with topcoat where moisture or irrigation exposure is higher. Metallic and anodized-match options for Uptown, Legacy, and Las Colinas Class A. Account for hail exposure, wind uplift, humidity during coating, and occasional ice loading in drainage details.
We align screen scope to local permit triggers from the start.
Every system is built for your exact roof and equipment layout.
Doors and clearances are planned so techs can do the work safely.
We keep details plain so install crews and PMs can move fast.
We work across the entire DFW metroplex - Dallas, Plano, Frisco, Allen, McKinney, Irving, Las Colinas, Addison, Richardson, Carrollton, Garland, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, Arlington, and Fort Worth. Each municipality runs its own plan-review process and we are familiar with the requirements across the metro.
Thermal expansion is a real engineering consideration when steel panels sit on a Dallas rooftop in August. We detail expansion joints at panel connections, specify hardware rated for high-heat environments, and design access doors that do not bind when the roof is at 160°F. This is standard in our Texas shop drawings.
Yes. North Texas commercial buildings commonly use brick, painted CMU, stucco, and EIFS in warm neutral tones. We powder coat in-house and can match your building's color palette or work from your spec. Send us the facade finish and we will coordinate the screen color.
Yes. Non-penetrating rooftop screen systems use ballasted or post-mounted bases that work with the existing roof membrane rather than cutting through it. This is a common request on reroof projects and on buildings where the roofing warranty does not allow new penetrations. We coordinate the engineering with your structural engineer of record.
Lead time depends on lineal footage, height, finish, and install scope. Share your roof plan and timeline early - the further out you bring us in, the more flexibility we have on fabrication scheduling. We do not publish a single lead time because every job is built to order.
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