PRESS INFORMATION FROM INTERPAVE
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paving, Interpave can offer feature articles on various
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NEW GOVERNMENT ACTION ON SUDS
The government’s water strategy for England was launched by Environment Secretary Hilary Benn on 7 February. Interpave welcomes this initiative and has the tools to help designers, developers and home owners meet the new sustainable surface drainage requirements.
Concrete block permeable paving continues to grow in popularity with recent government planning requirements demanding Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS). New guidance is now available for all those involved in the development process to help achieve successful local authority adoption.
A completely new, Fourth Edition of the Manual ' Heavy Duty Pavements - The Structural Design of Heavy Duty Pavements for Ports and Other Industries' has now been published by Interpave. The Manual can used to design pavements subjected to highway loading or greater, up to the maximum loads encountered on port and other heavy duty pavements. With a 30-year pedigree, it is regarded as the benchmark by which other heavy duty pavement design methods are evaluated.
A brand new issue of Pave-It magazine covers the latest developments in urban design, architecture, landscaping, sustainability and civil engineering with a paving focus.
Interpave has launched its new website at www.paving.org.uk providing the definitive information resource for the paved environment. Apart from a fresh new look, the site has been designed to make it easier for users to find just what they need from the extensive bank of PDF downloads.
As part of its drive to develop
permeable paving technology – a central component
of Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS) – the trade
association Interpave is the main sponsor of this
year’s SUDSnet National Conference.
A programme of training courses covering all aspects of paving and hard landscaping is being run by The Hard Landscaping Training Group, an initiative funded by CITB and supported by industry.
Machine installation of concrete block paving is already well established for large commercial projects, enabling tight deadlines to be met and minimising ‘down-time’. But the same technology is also becoming popular for quite small projects of all types with a growing range of paving designs available.
Much has happened in recent months to mould our paved environment, ranging from the government’s Manual for Streets launched at the end of March, to the latest thinking from an international conference in San Francisco. These topics and more are covered in a brand new issue of Pave-It magazine - available free of charge to all those involved in urban design, hard landscaping, civil engineering and indeed any form of paving.
Straightforward design guidance has just been published on-line to help home-owners, garden designers and contractors install paths, patios and driveways using ‘sustainable drainage’ principles. It is also intended to allay concerns of some local authorities about the effects of paving-over front gardens.
Concrete block paving meets today’s ‘Modern Methods of Construction’ requirements for fully engineered, prefabricated products but the increasing use of efficient, fully mechanized site processes adds to this - as demonstrated at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre car parks.
