PalmSHIELD Mechanical Equipment Screens
Architects and city planners depend on mechanical equipment screens to obscure HVAC units, solar panels, cooling towers, and transformers. These fixtures, while essential for building operations, present hazards to unauthorized personnel and are visually unappealing. What you need are screens that keep these items out of view without clashing with your building profile. PalmSHIELD is the nation’s top contractor for equipment screens.

When you order from us, you get the following:
- Mechanical equipment screens customized to your job site. PalmSHIELD’s products are custom-designed and fabricated according to your exact spatial, visibility, and ventilation needs.
- Popular louvered infill. PalmSHIELD’s most popular infill option is our elegant louvers, which provide 100% direct visual screening. Whether your screens are located at ground level or on a rooftop, we’ll design the louvers to be installed at whatever angle’s necessary to keep items out of public view. At the same time, the spacing between the louvers is enough to allow fumes, heat, and moisture to escape.
- Additional design options. Although louvers remain the #1 infill choice, we offer alternate infill styles such as semi-private, solid, and trellis. For old-fashioned brick-and-mortar locations, we recommend our Brick & Stone series, which uses specially crafted polymer infill to simulate the appearance of masonry—minus the intense installation labor and weight!
- Powder coating color options. As mentioned before, your equipment screening should match your building profile. For this reason, our team can media blast and powder coat your screens to display whatever color you want.
- Easy installation. Our screens are designed for easy field assembly.
Architectural Screening with Picture Frame Design
PalmSHIELD is the only contractor in the United States that uses a Picture Frame Design in mechanical equipment screens. This design features strong vertical and horizontal supports to make your screens extra robust and stable. Our clientele includes industrial parks, restaurants, power plants, and schools.

Where to Install?
Ground Level

Rooftop

Building Exterior

Parking Garage


The PalmSHEILD Experience
When you want a complete solution to your louvered equipment screen, rooftop screen, architectural screening and ventilation needs without sweating the small stuff, choose PalmSHIELD–look no further! We’ve got you covered. Our team will walk you through the design process and keep you updated throughout engineering until the finished product is installed. How do we make it easy for you?
Popular Applications
Rooftop enclosures
Dumpster enclosures
HVAC units
Transformers
Generators
Cooling towers
Pool equipment
FAQs
Am I required to install mechanical equipment screening?
Many progressive communities require architects and property managers to obscure mechanical equipment from public view. Failure to comply can result in fines. Regardless of whether it’s a ground-level or rooftop installation, your equipment must be hidden from a pedestrian’s eye line.
How do equipment screens improve safety?
Your equipment probably features sharp parts, electrical wires, and other hazardous attributes. Closing off your equipment separates pedestrians from potential danger. You don’t want children climbing on your HVAC units, for instance. Screens also help prevent vandals from accessing your equipment.
How does PalmSHIELD design equipment screens to match my job site?
Provide our sales team with the exact measurements of your job site. PalmSHIELD’s designers will put together CAD drawings based on your measurements. Once you approve the drawings, the finished product will be manufactured according to those drawings.
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