ACP Pavers by Design Green Pavers - Permeable Pavers - pervious pavers

The choice you make in pavers can directly help - or harm - the water quality in your area. Traditional impervious paving methods not only create unnecessary runoff, they prevent contaminated stormwater from being naturally filtered before entering streams, ponds and sewers.

Permeable pavers or green pavers provide the strength, durability, slip resistance and beauty of other options, and much more. Specialty interlocking pervious paver shapes and openings allow stormwater to rapidly flow through, eliminating standing water in driveways, plazas, walkways, parking lots, and more - without sloping. As part of a bio-aquifer stormwater system, permeable pavers can virtually eliminate runoff, potentially removing the need for retention ponds or underground sewer pipes.

Permeable interlocking concrete pavement (PICP) is comprised of a layer of concrete pavers separated by joints filled with small stones. Water enters joints between solid concrete pervious pavers and flows through an "open-graded" base, i.e. crushed stone layers with no small or fine particles. The void spaces among the crushed stones store water and infiltrate it back into the soil subgrade. The stones in the joints provide 100% surface permeability and the base filters stormwater and reduces pollutants.

PICP can also meet the sustainable sites requirement to reduce urban heat islands (thermal difference between urban and rural areas), minimize impacts on microclimates and in wildlife habitats. This is accomplished through increased albedo (a measure of the solar energy reflected from a surface) or use of a pavement system with less than 50% imperviousness. PICP has substantially higher reflectivity than conventional asphalt pavement and can meet the requirement for less than 50% imperviousness.

A broad range of product types and advantages suit any application, and a variety of aesthetic options helps promote design flexibility while protecting the environment, adhering to EPA and local regulations and contributing credits toward LEED® certification. In addition to helping protect the environment, these innovative permeable paver products can protect the economy, as future growth depends on maintaining the quality of water resources, including beaches and rivers. Make permeable paver products a core building block in your eco-friendly paver land use plan.

We have installed one of the largest permeable paver projects on Florida's West Coast (over 40,000 sq/ft) at Lake Kathy Apartments in Brandon FL.

 

Call our office today for more information on how you can "Go Green" with pavers.

 

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