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duke19_98

My professor suggested that I use grasscrete as a parking surface. Has anyone used this or something similar before? Any comments?

 
Oct 12, 04 5:04 pm
alphanumericcha

Yup.... Generically grass pavers. It's a great way to provide green permeable area and park on them without creating a muddy mess.

We usually use when we have very serious storm water problems to deal with on a site and nowhere to store the water.

Also look at permeable concrete, cool looking paving surface and you can store water in gravel and sand below for some variety in textures in your solution.

Oct 12, 04 5:23 pm  · 
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Jeremy_Grant

those pavers work great ;)

Oct 12, 04 7:31 pm  · 
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RqTecT

use then as fire loops around my buildings Work great
look cool

Oct 12, 04 9:17 pm  · 
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Interestingly, permeable concrete typically costs about the same as conventional concrete to install. However, maintainence costs are higher with permeable concrete.

Unfortunately the stormwater benefits of permeable concrete are minimized when used on top of hard packed soils or when the ground is frozen. Something to think about if you're going to be using it in an area that experiences cold winters.

Oct 13, 04 9:38 am  · 
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kyll

excuse my ignorance.....

whats a fire loop?

Oct 13, 04 9:44 am  · 
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35mm

hard to snowplow the grasscrete.

Oct 14, 04 3:46 pm  · 
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