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:
RC Ready Mix - Sample Slab with Decorative Pervious
We teamed up with RC Ready Mix to do a sample pour over in their yard, with their aggregate. They wanted to see how it went down, and we wanted to see how our mix design would work with their rocks. Not only did the installation turn out REALLY WELL, but Rob Estrada was able to really show us all a few MORE possibilities for decorative pervious concrete!
The first question is always ‘how well does it drain?’ Check out the video below to watch the front end loader dump a bucketful of water on the slab!
We agree with the driver, thumbs up! A few days later, Rob went over there to try some designs to see how they could look. We are well known for our Polished Pervious™, which you can see below, next to the Classic Pervious Concrete.
Then he added some designs. There are arc-like flagstone shapes on the left, and more rustic stone shapes on the right.
To get a closer look at the great texture, we took a close up. You can see the Polished Pervious Concrete ™, and then set into the pervious a pattern that was added well after the plastic was pulled up.
And here is where Rob really let loose! As Rob added these layers of color and texture to the Pervious Concrete, you can see the window that RC Ready Mix installed when they were framing. That allows one to see the water going through the layers of the Pervious Concrete System.
Here is most of the slab - you can see the suns and the moon and the gorgeous colors that were used!
If you would like to see this in person, it will only be in the yard for a limited time. Contact us or RC Ready Mix in Livermore for more information.