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Paving & landscaping guidance

Permitted Paving

Published: 2024

SuDs requirements for existing domestic and Commercial applications.Guidance for planners, designers installers surveyors & conveyancers.

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Paving for Rain

Published: 2024

A Guide for Homeowners - Responsible rainwater management around the home to meet new planning regulations for driveways and garden paving.

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Understanding Permeable Paving

Published: 2024

With more than 25 years’ use on a wide range of project typologies, including adopted roads and even container terminals, concrete block permeable paving (CBPP) has proven to be a robust, resilient and adaptable technology. This long experience also gives a greater understanding of the capabilities of CBPP, revealing that it performs far better than originally anticipated with important potential for even more applications and innovations

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Modular Paving - Detailed Design & Installation

Published: 2021

Precast concrete paving meets today’s Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) ethos with fully engineered, prefabricated, modular products. The use of mechanised on- and off-site processes linked to good design will enhance MMC benefits, improve the end result and optimise safety as well as efficiency.

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Concrete Block Paving

Published: 2019

A guide to the properties, design, construction, reinstatement and maintenance of concrete block pavements - Edition 2.

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CBPP Design Example

Published: 2019

A Design example for concrete block permeable pavements.

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Concrete Block Permeable Paving

Published: 2018

  • Spatial Planning
  • Structural & Hydraulic Design
  • Specification & Detailing
  • Construction & Maintenance
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Planning with Paving

Published: 2015

Precast concrete paving for inspired hard landscape and urban design.

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Paving for Sustainability

Published: 2012

A guide to sustainable paving with precast concrete edition 2.

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Environmental Impact of Paving

Published: 2012

The green guide & precast concrete paving edition 2.

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Handling Kerbs and Flags

Published: 2011

Guide to the Handling of Precast Concrete Kerbs and Paving Flags.

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Concrete Flag Paving

Published: 2010

Guide to the properties, deisgn, handling, construction, reinstatement and maintenance of concrete flag pavements.

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Urban Paving

Published: 2010

This brochure, originally published in 2004, provides a useful background to the capabilities of precast concrete paving for urban regeneration.

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Permeable Paving for Adoption

Published: 2010

Guidance for achieving successful local authority adoption of permeable pavements. 

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Cutting Paving

Published: 2010

Cutting precast concrete blocks flags and kerbs – efficient design and managing the risk.

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Concrete Kerbs

Published: 2010

Guide to the properties, deisgn, handling, installation and reinstatement of precast concrete kerbs.

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Heavy Duty Pavements

Published: 2008

This Fourth Edition of the Manual is an update of the Third Edition published in 1996 and includes for the first time information on permeable paving for SUDS, the adoption of recently published British and European Standards and the inclusion of a large range of diagrams showing patterns of stress throughout heavy duty pavements.

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Accessible Paving

Published: 2006

Precast concrete solutions for building regulations, BS 8300, DDA, and inclusive mobility.

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Kerb Appeal

Published: 2006

The case for precast concrete kerbs and related products.

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The Cost of Paving

Published: 2006

Comparative initial construction and whole life cost analyses for pavements.

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Modern Methods of Paving

Published: 2006

Machine installation of concrete paving blocks.

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Home Zones Paving

Published: 2005

Precast concrete paving solutions for today’s residential street environments.

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