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Grasscrete by Bomanite: A Functional "Green" Paving Solution
 Blending architecture and landscape is sometimes a complicated task when functionality, aesthetic appeal and eco-friendly criterion have to be considered. Grasscrete by Bomanite provides a variety of landscape solutions while maintaining a sustainable “green” product design. Grasscrete is a cast-in-place, monolithic, pervious concrete pavement that is continuously reinforced to provide superior structural integrity. After the concrete is sufficiently hardened, the voids are filled with topsoil and grass, thus providing a free draining "pavement" with the structural capacity to handle most heavy vehicle loads. Grasscrete is great for emergency access lanes, delivery access routes, overflow parking areas, and for intermittent drainage channels to help prevent erosion.
Available in a range of systems specific to the required use, Grasscrete is essentially a cellular reinforced concrete slab, the cells being voids created in the patented casting process which are subsequently filled with soil and seeded with grass or other appropriate ground cover. The Grasscrete system selected can either be purely functional or be a concealed product that is both functional and pleasing in appearance. Grasscrete offers the end-user the ability to provide year round access for a variety of applications without compromising the aesthetics of their exterior landscaping and having to utilize traditional hard pavements, eliminating the need to control storm water runoff.
 Grasscrete can also be employed as a stabilization product for areas that experience seasonal runoff, that require maximum water capacity to handle that such as off of an adjacent hard surface or that require a structural base material prior to application such as use under pre-cast unit porous paving systems. Grasscrete can be customized to suit a wide variety of applications where the elimination of retention ponds, swales or other storm water management devices is desired. Grasscrete does not contribute to the heat island effect like other hard surfaces such as asphalt, does not allow contaminants to runoff during “first flush” rainfall into potentially fragile eco-systems and allows for tree plantings in close proximity. Grasscrete is a very sustainable product that can employ a large recycled material content both in the form of aggregate and binder such as fly ash or slag- its lifespan is indefinite and can be recycled itself to form the aggregates for future Grasscrete applications.
The plastic former utilized to create the void structure is designed to have a limitless number of re-uses, the strength to accept live concrete loads, and capable to being removed during the concrete plastic state to create the voids. Structural analysis of the finished concrete section is based upon the bending moment of the mesh reinforcement contained within the slab, relatively to slab depth, contact area with base and an assumed allowable ground bearing of 45kN/m2 for its base. By using combinations of depth and different mesh types, the system can be tailored to provide the most economical solution.
For more information about Bomanite Grasscrete or any other product featured here, call the Bomanite Licensed Contractor in your area. Go to www.bomanite.com and click on the “Locate Licensed Contractor ” link.
 
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