Sneak Peek of Boeddekker Park- A Tenderloin gem
The Grand Opening of Boeddeker Park is on December 10, 2014 from 1-4pm. The park is located in the Tenderloin at 246 Eddy Street in San Francisco.* Why are we so excited about this park? Because most of the hardscape is our Fine Grain Pervious Concrete! And it looks gorgeous!
We hope you swing by to check it out, either on the 10th or sometime after. It has exercise equipment for adults, play equipment for children and seating and grass for general playing. It is a lovely open oasis in the middle of the Tenderloin. For more information about this park click here to go tot he SF recreation department page on the celebration.
When it dries out a bit, we will be posting more photos, so come on back!
*Screen cap of a map below
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!
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! 
Sausalito Fairytale: Harrison Park
Have you been? What do you think? Let us know in the comments below:
USGBC Greener Builder - a fantastic conference!
There were good options for every panel, but as pervious concrete sub-contractors, we went to the subcontractor panel, hosted by John Home and Jeff Swinyer of Rudolph and Sletten, pictured below.
Lauren, pictured below, was interested in the drive toward clear performance specs to allow for differentiation at the sub-contractor level. As a pervious concrete subcontractor, we differentiate ourselves with our embrace of leading edge technologies for mix design and installation. Unfortunately, many current specs don’t reflect the progress in the installation, mix designs, equipment and curing materials that has developed in the last few years.
The next panel we attended discussed Environmental Product Disclosures (EPDs), a labeling system that discloses the resource footprint of the many materials that go into the built environment. The panel also included the next iteration, the Health Product Disclosures, which discloses the materials and chemicals that have been proven or correlated in causing health problems for humans.
Central Concrete, a sponsor of the event, has been heavily involved in the EPD project for disclosing the materials for the concrete industry. Below is a photo of the panelists from this panel.
The last panel of the day went over Net Zero Energy buildings with John Andary and Scott Shell, pictured below. It was a fascinating look at what is currently possible with technologies now: buildings that use as much energy as they make. The building case studies discussed also illustrated how livable and workable these spaces were, with thought for passive heating and cooling. Many of the designs features windows that bounced daylight far into the building envelope, as well as fresh air ventilation. It was a wonderful talk, even though their topics stayed primarily inside the building envelope.
The final speaker, Jason McLennan, pictured below, gave a wonderful talk on self limits. His talk really stood out for his candor and optimism. For a young guy, has accomplished quite a bit in the green building spaces. Currently he is pioneering the Living Building movement.
After his talk, Jason McLennan was joined by George Salah, of Google, and David Gottfried of the USGBC. They discussed everything from George’s living-building home construction project to Jason’s motivation to do the work that he does: “I give a shit.” That was wonderful.
FInally, after it was all over, we found that there was a fantastic array of beers, wine and snacks to round out the day’s networking. It was a great event, and one we will look forward to attending next year!
A BIG thank you to Charlie Nucci, who took these photos at the event. You can find more about Charlie and his work at his website here.
Pervious Concrete at Capp Plaza!
This time for the Capp Street Plaza, near the Mission Street and Cesar Chavez intersection. Someday soon more pervious concrete will be in San Francisco! If you would like a bid, or more information on the project, please contact us soon! Bids are due tomorrow at 2:30pm!
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Architectural Fine Grain Pervious Concrete in San Francisco!
Great news! Currently the City of San Francisco is considering installing some Architectural Fine Grain Pervious Concrete as a part of the Folsom Streetscape Improvement Project. While it isn't installed yet, it will be * hopefully! * in the next year. While it is specified, the Architectural Fine Grain Pervious Concrete is an alternate design but we are bidding it for a few contractors. If you know any other contractors who need a bid for the Folsom Streetscape Improvement Project let us know! We are uniquely qualified as we are NRMCA certified Pervious Concrete Installers and well versed in Evolution Paving's Architectural Fine Grain Pervious Concrete. If you are interested in seeing it on the ground, Lyngso has a sample in their yard, it looks nice! If you want to see some of our decorative work, you can see it here.