Published: February 2025
Case studies demonstrating the key role of concrete block permeable paving for efficient and cost-effective SuDS on housing developments.
Our first case study – Lamb Drove – is particularly important as a SuDS Monitoring Project. It confirms the durability of concrete block permeable paving (CBPP) and is cited as an exemplar in Defra’s January 2023 report‘. The review for implementation of Schedule 3 to The Flood and Water Management Act 2010’.
Published: 2024
'SuDs' requirements for existing domestic and Commercial applications. Guidance for planners, designers installers surveyors & conveyancers.
A Guide for Homeowners - Responsible rainwater management around the home to meet new planning regulations for driveways and garden paving.
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
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.
Published: 2019
A guide to the properties, design, construction, reinstatement and maintenance of concrete block pavements - Edition 2.
A Design example for concrete block permeable pavements.
Published: 2018
Published: 2015
Precast concrete paving for inspired hard landscape and urban design.
Published: 2012
A guide to sustainable paving with precast concrete edition 2.
The green guide & precast concrete paving edition 2.
Published: 2011
Guide to the Handling of Precast Concrete Kerbs and Paving Flags.
Published: 2010
Guide to the properties, design, handling, construction, reinstatement and maintenance of concrete flag pavements.
This brochure, originally published in 2004, provides a useful background to the capabilities of precast concrete paving for urban regeneration.
Guidance for achieving successful local authority adoption of permeable pavements.
Cutting precast concrete blocks flags and kerbs – efficient design and managing the risk.
Guide to the properties, design, handling, installation and reinstatement of precast concrete kerbs.
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.
Published: 2006
Precast concrete solutions for building regulations, BS 8300, DDA, and inclusive mobility.
The case for precast concrete kerbs and related products.
Comparative initial construction and whole life cost analyses for pavements.
Machine installation of concrete paving blocks.
Published: 2005
Precast concrete paving solutions for today’s residential street environments.