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Case Studies and Showcase Projects
Browse our list below and download stories on some of the best projects.
 Design Excellence at Intrawest Resorts - Pavers enhance the village concept that organizes transportation, housing and retail activitity at Intrawest's successful resorts. The story focuses on village master planner and landscape architect Eldon Beck and how concrete pavers enhance and enliven his design concepts.
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Morton Arboretum Visitor's Center Parking Lot - An expansion program for this arboretum meant increasing parking while not impacting a nearby lake and river. Assisted by a U.S. EPA monitoring grant, permeable interlocking concrete pavements provided the runoff and pollutant reduction to acheive these goals.
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Wal-Mart Parking Lot - A parking lot behind a Wal-Mart needed to be expanded but there wasn't enough space for it and a detention pond. Permeable interlocking concrete pavements provided more parking surface and sufficient infiltration to eliminate the need for a detention pond.
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Engineering Computer Science Building - A new sustainable building approach for the Victoria University Campus enabled permeable interlocking concrete pavements to be part of a building and parking lot expansion. The pavers used appear as regular (non-permeable) units, but their joints allow water to infiltrate and reduce runoff.
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Jordan Cove Watershed - Runoff and pollutants from this developing watershed have been monitored for years under a U.S. EPA grant. The development included a residential street and driveways with permeable interlocking concrete pavements that substantially reduced nutrients and metals in runoff.
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Robson Center, Gainesville, GA - Being close to a high-value recreational lake, the City of Gainesville maintains strict controls on runoff. Permeable interlocking concrete pavements met these requirements for an office building parking lot build on slow-draining clay soils.
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Hilton Garden Inn, Calabasas, CA - Southern California requirements for capturing the first flush, the most polluted runoff early in rainstorms, were met with permeable interlocking concrete pavement entrance and parking lot at this international name brand hotel.
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Harbourfront Fire Station, Toronto, Ontario -City regulations restrict new pavement in Toronto. The City set the example by using permeable interlocking concrete pavements at a fire station near Lake Ontario.
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Pool Decks with Concrete Pavers - Concrete pavers provide the best looking surface for pool decks. This article provides some basic guidelines to pool construction including how to deal with settling backfill against pool walls, bullnose coping and joint sealants.
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North Bay, Ontario - A Case Study in City Design and Engineering with Interlocking Concrete Pavements - Reviews the construction of concrete paver streets and sidewalks in North Bay, Ontario.
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North Bay, Ontario Streets - 20 Years Later - Downtown North Bay streets and sidewalks take trucks, snow, ice, and deicing salts with pratically no maintenance.
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LEED with Concrete Pavers - Concrete pavers and permeable interlocking concrete pavers contribute to sustainable design with LEED credits.
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Altoona, PA Downtown Revitalization - A small town restores its historic center with concrete pavers.
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Case Study in Engineered Interlocking Concrete Pavment-Hong Kong Airport - Hong Kong International Airport has 5 million sf (500,000 m2) of concrete pavers, the largest airfield installation in the world.
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