In South East Queensland the shade is worth as much as the electricity. A canopy over a hospital car park does two jobs at once: it generates about 1,500 kWh per kWp a year, the highest of any mainland state bar WA, and it takes the sun off patients, visitors and staff crossing the lot.
What the canopy does for the site
High yield and high UV
At roughly 1,500 kWh per kWp a year the generation case is strong, and the same structure delivers the shade a Queensland car park needs anyway.
The roof is not the constraint
Hospital roofs are contested, heavily serviced and often unavailable. A canopy is a new structure sized to the lot, which brings the campus's largest flat surface into scope.
Built for a working campus
Around 80% of each canopy is built in our factory and craned in, which keeps trades and hot works away from a live hospital. Installs can be staged where sections must stay open.
Disclosure-ready
Generation is metered behind the meter, so the reduction is auditable and reports consistently year to year under mandatory climate reporting.
Why this campus
Queensland Health operates under state net zero commitments and Caboolture has been through significant expansion, which means car park planning is live rather than settled. A canopy is cheapest to consider while the lot is already being looked at.
The canopy drawn below delivers 852 kWp, about 1.28 GWh a year on site, for $1.66M of base scope. Every figure comes from a scaled layout on the actual car park and our pricing engine.
Drawn and priced
The canopy below was drawn to scale on the actual car park and priced through our engine. Figures are preliminary, ex-GST, subject to site assessment: 852 kWp, about 1.28 GWh a year generated on site, for $1.66M of base scope.
Caboolture HospitalCaboolture, QLD
Prelim PP-QLDH-001
852 kWpSystem size
~1.28 GWh/yrGenerated on site
3,545 m²Canopy coverage
1,140Solar modules
$1.66MBase scope, ex-GST ($1.95/W)
45Structural columns
Drawn on the at-grade lot. EV charging is not in this price and can be added.
Base scope is the canopy structure, install, civil, lighting, safety and engineering. EV charging is shown as an option. Site transport, trenching and battery are not included and can be added.
Proven on live campuses
Canyon Solar factory-builds solar canopies that turn large car parks into onsite generation and shade. We have delivered them for Woolworths, across six sites, and for IGA, AstraZeneca and CSIRO. The AstraZeneca canopy went up on an active pharmaceutical campus and the client confirmed it was three times faster than in-situ construction, with 75% fewer high-risk on-site labour hours. That is the closest comparison we have to building around a working hospital.
IGA Baranduda, VIC. A Canyon Solar delivery.
The Grand Canyon
For a lot this size the standout design is the Grand Canyon: a continuous, full-coverage canopy with no gaps over the driving lanes. It gives the highest solar density in our range and a clean roofline that reads as a designed part of the site. Installs can be staged where sections of the car park must stay open.
Grand Canyon, a continuous full-coverage canopy with integrated battery and EV charging.
Any site, in minutes
This site took minutes to draw. We can do the same for any other campus in the network, live: draw the canopy to scale on the car park, size it, and price it while you watch. We can also run the economics on your own inputs, whatever tariff, self-consumption or funding structure applies, so the figures sit inside your own business case format.
How to proceed
A specified option in the next package
The figures here are at a level you can carry into a capital submission or write into the scope of a future car park or campus works package.
A cost reference to test
Run our layout and pricing against your own assumptions before anything goes to market, so the number in your business case is one you have checked.
Every canopy is engineered, factory-built and installed by the team that has delivered 16 projects across three states.
We are not asking for a procurement decision. If it is useful, we will validate the layout on the actual title boundary and run the economics on the campus's own consumption and tariff data, so anything that goes to market later is specified from a checked number.