All-sides screening language
DOB wants elevations from every angle — including views from the 7 train, neighboring rooftops, and the street. Not a catalog cut sheet.
NEW YORK CITY ROOFTOP SCREENING
RTU Screening NYC — Built for Plan Review
Custom Mechanical Equipment fabricates steel rooftop screens for NYC commercial roofs — sized to your parapet line, your equipment layout, and your DOB submittal. Shop drawings included. Field cuts not.
THE NYC PROBLEM
Plan review flags screening. Your schedule doesn't care.
NYC DOB examiners require sections, parapet-relative heights, and attachment loads before they stamp rooftop mechanical work — whether the job is a FiDi high-rise, a Chelsea gallery building, or a pre-war flat roof in Harlem. Generic fence catalogs and kit walls don't include those drawings. We do.
Height + attachment on one sheet
If your submittal separates the structural from the architectural, expect a comment cycle.
AHJ-ready, not sales-drawing ready
We issue mechanical roof screen details your examiner can read and stamp.
WHAT WE FABRICATE
RTU screening NYC for every rooftop condition
Solid Panels — Full Visual Block
When zoning requires the RTU to disappear from 5th Avenue, Northern Boulevard, or Flatbush Avenue sightlines, solid 26-gauge panels conceal packaged units, exhaust fans, and cooling towers — without leaving raw metal on the roof.
Perforated & Louvered — Airflow Without a Coil Choke
Mechanical gives you a free-area number; you need a pattern that hits it. Perforated faces soften the view. Louvered layouts define open area in the shop, not with a field drill.
Non-Penetrating Systems
Landmarked buildings in Greenwich Village, SoHo, and Upper West Side historic districts often restrict new roof penetrations. Ballasted and attachment-engineered bases meet your engineer's requirements — not a kit that usually works.
Snow & Cold-Climate Load
NYC winters add drift and point load to every roof screen calculation. We coordinate with your structural engineer so the wall survives winter, not just permit issuance.
35 YEARS ON SCREENING ONLY
We don't do general metal fab that also does roofs.
Screening is the entire scope — not a side line. RTUs on Hudson Yards plazas, cooling towers in Lower Manhattan, exhaust fans on Bushwick creative offices. That focus is why repeat NYC GCs call before pricing alternates, and why our drawing sets don't surprise DOB examiners.
- Zero field-cut kits
Every run drawn to your equipment map and roof edges before the boom truck shows up.
- AHJ-ready packages
Plans, sections, and details that name attachment, height, and finish. We stay through the redlines.
- Freight and install on one call
Loading dock windows in Midtown, street-closure staging on Broadway, elevator-only roof access — coordinated on one thread.
FROM THE FIELD
GCs and HVAC firms who've been through plan review with us
We had a DOB screening comment on a Midtown office retrofit two weeks before CO. CME turned shop drawings in four days and the comment cleared on the first resubmission.
— Project Manager, Manhattan GC
Every other vendor sent us a catalog. CME sent sections and elevations sized to our Williamsburg parapet — accounting for the L train sightline. That's the difference between a submittal and a sales sheet.
— Senior Estimator, Brooklyn HVAC Contractor
START YOUR SCOPE
Tell us the roof. We'll tell you the package.
Share the roof plan, DOB job number, or equipment schedule — whether the site is in FiDi, Long Island City, or the Grand Concourse. We respond with a timeline and next steps, not a catalog PDF.
Or call us directly
2101 Hall Blvd, Ponca City, OK 74601
Fabrication in Oklahoma. Service area: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.