Backyard Greenhouse with Pervious!
This just in:
A backyard greenhouse with a pervious concrete floor that lets in the sunshine and lets out the water! Check out the video below:
The backyard greenhouse will function as much as a plant habitat as a personal retreat. I understand a chair, and a reading light will go in there, so that the owners can enjoy the plants and sunshine even in the chillier winter months. That sure looks cozy! What do you think?
Crazy Installations- a backhoe for your hard to reach places?
Perhaps it wasn’t the most efficient installation technique..... 
Santa Cruz loves Pervious Concrete
While we know pervious concrete is a great multi-use trail material, the City of Santa Cruz did some serious research before they settled on pervious concrete for the Arana Gulch multi-use trail project. They needed something that is safe and non-slip in all weather conditions, accessible in all weather, protected water quality, was permeable, low maintenance, and looks the part- clearly pervious concrete! Here is the original blog post, I don’t need to quote them further. Great work, Santa Cruz!!
More great work: they hired BAPC to install it. Above you can see an ‘under-construction’ photo of the Broadway Brommer Arana Gulch path that we are installing. Some parts are opened, but isn’t quite complete, but when it is, we will post more photos. If you use the Arana Gulch Broadway Brommer Multi-Use path that is currently open this summer, send us your photos, and we would love to post them!
Pervious Concrete for Stanford Faculty Housing
The view, heading to the street:
The view from the front steps:
Pervious Parking Stalls in Aptos
Parking stalls never looked so good! Here you can see, courtesy of Google maps, the top down look at parking stalls for this large apartment complex in Soquel, California. Below, you can see up close, pervious parking stalls with marking paint. While we don’t encourage AC pavement draining onto adjacent pervious concrete as a design concept, this went in well, and will be in service for a long time. Find more photos below!
Evolution Architectural Pervious Concrete Certificate of Endorsement!
Please contact us for pricing and references so that we can install for you soon!
Polished Pervious Driveway with COLOR
Well, see for yourself-
What do you think? Do you like this look?
Commodore Park in San Jose is now ready for a Frisbee!
If you head out there, please send us photos of you enjoying the park! We will post them here!
White Hill Middle School Gets a Brand New Courtyard!
The finishing touches were just getting completed as teachers were prepping classrooms in anticipation of classes starting. It was very exciting!
We were able to get this fantastic design installed with the help of a dedicated team of design professionals. Joel Williams and Pauline Souza from WRNS Studios were invaluable as design advocates for pervious concrete from the beginning of the project. Mike Hastings, from Sherwood Engineering, was the civil on the project, and his collaboration and cooperation on the technical aspects enabled us keep momentum going. We look forward to working with both of these firms in the future, for more pervious concrete projects!!
And here is our favorite shot - a close up of the nice tidy finish, and the subtle color variations in the polished finish the school administrators were looking for.
More Photos of the Valley Oak Co-Housing Project
Tell us what you think! Do these look like livable hardscapes to you? Honestly, I just want to pet that puppy!
UC Berkeley's newest path is pervious
This is where the path is adjacent to Optometry Lane.
Polished Fine Pervious Installed in Los Altos Hills!
What do you think? Do you have a good use for Polished Pervious Fine? Let us know in the comments below!
Sausalito Fairytale: Harrison Park
Have you been? What do you think? Let us know in the comments below:
Stormwater Sleuthing - Episode 2 - Palo Alto
What did you think? Do you have a Stormwater Sleuthing location (in the Bay Area) that you would like David to investigate the next time it rains? Let us know in the comments below or contact us here. Thanks!
NRMCA Technician Training in Truckee- A Success!
Valley Oak Co-Housing in Sonoma
A fantastic new co-housing community in the City of Sonoma now has pervious concrete walkways throughout their development. Designers and architects chose Evolution Paving’s Architectural Fine Sidewalk mix for the pervious walkways in the new multi family residential neighborhood. This project features many ‘green’ details, from all of the hardscapes being pervious, to the radiant floor heating. Of course our favorite was the pervious concrete! The pervious concrete sidewalk mix was to be installed with curbs, so we used those as the forms.
This mix uses much smaller crushed aggregate, so the finished product features a smoother finish. In an attempt to mitigate costs, this pervious concrete was poured in composite lifts, 4” of 3/8 pervious concrete and 1” of the Architectural Fine Mix. It was an exciting challenge to logistically get it all in place - AND it turned out GREAT!
We worked with Evolution Paving out of Salem, Oregon, mixing the Architectural Fines Sidewalk mix, as well as a great mix collaboration with Shamrock Materials in Sonoma County for the 3/8 layer.
Pervious Patios at the Hyatt Regency
The Hyatt wanted a new look and feel for two areas on either side of a walkway that connected the north entrance and the parking garage. They wanted to rip out the existing plants and replace it with a usable patio space. They also wanted pervious concrete - so they called us!
We came in and removed the existing plants and material, making room for the drain rock base and the pervious concrete.
After we installed the Polished Pervious® concrete, we scored it, completing the look. The Hyatt put out this sleek and modern furniture, turning this previously unusable corner into a nice place to take a break! Below is the larger area, to the east of the pathway. Beneath that is the smaller area, to the west.
If you have a before and after job for us, let us know- contact us or leave a comment below!
Stormwater Sleuthing - Episode 1
What did you think? Do you have a Stormwater Sleuthing location (in the Bay Area) that you would like David to investigate the next time it rains? Let us know in the comments below or contact us here. Thanks!
The Greenest Mix - Pervious Concrete can get GREENER!
Guest post, written by David Liguori
I wanted to give you a quick update on one of the more significant developments we’ve achieved lately.
In our continuing quest to further improve the performance of pervious concrete we have developed an “ultra-green” mix design for which we have recently received test data. The mix contains only 245 lbs. of cement, vs. 5-600 lbs. for regular concrete, and 245 lbs. of supplementary cementitious materials (scm). The scm consists of a combination of fly ash and slag, both industrial waste products.
We used this mix this past January on a 2,000 ft. long (by 10’ wide) driveway in Palo Alto(photo above) and 3 months ago on a 5,000 sqft. driveway in Los Altos Hills (photo below). They are both performing quite impressively. Absolutely no surface raveling, all of which typically takes place in the first month or two if it’s going to happen, water infiltration rates of 700-1,200” per hour and compressive strengths above 3,000 psi.
As I am sure you know the addition of the scm’s slows down the rate of early strength gains but ultimately results in higher overall strength. In the case of the ultra-green mix our 28 day numbers are in the 2,600 – 2,900 psi range and to our delight the recent 90 day test came in at an outstanding 3,520psi. These type of results and data continue to increase our confidence in pervious concrete as viable long term stormwater management solution.
If you would like more details, contact us here and we will get in touch!
This is the video from the longest (and greenest) pervious concrete driveway in the world!
A new parking lot at the Beth Abraham Temple
Monday we poured pervious concrete in the parking lot of the Temple Beth Abraham. Above is the finished first of 2 slabs. Below you can see the pervious pavers and pea gravel they had installed before:
And here is the after:
As you can see there is still a drainage system, an artifact from the previous installation. It gets an early retirement, and the water will now infiltrate back into the native soil. And in the below, you can see our truck!
Our most recent pour: Los Altos Hills
Location: Los Altos Hills
Size: 103 yards
Job: pervious concrete, with decorative finish to be completed in 2 weeks
walkway, driveway, hardscape as part of full remodel
It was a gorgeous day to be completing the pour in Los Altos Hills Monday. Here you can see our crew carefully finishing the pour. The last of the concrete heading to the curb of this almost complete remodel, just before the last of it was covered in plastic while it cures.
We will be posting more pictures of the finished job in the coming weeks. Check back soon! In the meantime, if you would like a free estimate, contact us today!
Redwood Avenue - Driveway
The client had flooding in the back and front of the house due to an uneven grade of the lot and excessive roof runoff.
Why Pervious Concrete?
He initially wanted a pervious concrete driveway because of impervious ground cover limitations in his city.
The Solution:
We designed a pervious concrete driveway and side yard that is also the retention pond for all of the roof and yard runoff.The pervious concrete water retention system captures 100% of their runoff from the roof AND the lot. They now have a dry front yard, back yard and they can grill just off the kitchen without puddles!
