Ground-mounted Solar Array Safety Fencing
Rural lifestyle block - Rutherglen
When a fence can be more than a fence
An ARC recently installed a boundary fence around a good-sized solar system at a home in Rutherglen. House and tree location meant that the panels needed to be ground mounted to get the best performance of the system. But there are regulations regarding access. There needs to be an exclusion fence around the panels for safety and incidental damage reasons. This must be completed before the system can be commissioned.
Yes, a rural fence is required, but ARC is a about people and lifestyle and doing more with a bit thinking.
What We Did:
ARC put some thought into this. This was a straight forward rural fencing job. But in a small rural block, your fences are “up-close and personal” to your everyday movements. Looks matter and if you get a choice, can you do little things that contribute to the ways things look and feel. Make a good choice!! ARC installed an innovative double underpinned corner assemble to be consistent with the visual lines of the solar panel structure. This eliminated the typical diagonal braces on corner assemblies. Also, we used the Clipex fence design to ensure the fence itself was minimised without comprising the functional strength aspects.
The Result:
A clean fence design which is visually consistent with the solar array structure.
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“The installation of our new solar system required exclusion safety fencing surrounding the ground-mounted solar panel arrays. ARC was able to respond quickly, at short notice, to instal the fence within the constraints of the solar system being commissioned and independently inspected.
ARC actively communicated with us and the electrical contractors to ensure all regulation and safety requirements were met with the fencing construction. While the job was done quickly there was no compromise as to the quality of the fencing and for a small property owner it was great to rely on someone else to help out while I focused on other matters.
We were delighted at the effort Sandy made to ensure the design and materials used for the rural fencing would present congenially in the landscape as the solar arrays sat at the rear of our house and amongst our soon to be planned garden on our small acreage”.
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