Grass Concrete Limited
Grasscrete grass paving cellular grass paving systems
Grass Concrete are a UK company working
to establish environmental awareness in construction. Many of their
policies and values have now been adopted by governments and
planners around the world. Grass Concrete offer a
range of products designed to:
- Promote sustainable practices in design,
manufacture, construction and operation
- Commit to use recycled materials during
construction wherever possible.
- Create greenspace that supports our
environment by mitigating the harmful side effects of
urbanization.
Through a range of:
- Earth retaining wall structures and noise
barriers offering a planted or stone finish
- Cellular grassed paving structures made of
concrete or plastic, that feature the unique and well known
Grasscrete system.
Paving Products
Grass Concrete have a complete range of systems
and are able to offer the most ‘appropriate’ product rather than
just the most ‘available’.
There are no formal quality standards in place for
grass paving systems and many companies make a number of performance
claims. Grass Concrete have a long history of supply and
installation and are able to offer the most workable solutions
dependent upon the environment and loading scenario.
In recent years ‘sustainable urban drainage’ systems
gave grown in popularity but Grass Concrete Ltd have been supporting
and publishing papers on the subject for over 30 years. They have a
network of licencees serving the Grasscrete cast-on-site system that
remains very much the leader in grass paving technology.
Greenroofing Systems
Green roofing technology, or grass roofing
systems offer a significant benefit to our environment and have
become an ‘everyday’ specification on many new building projects and
partly been made so popular by the simplicity of the system and its
installation.
Using a dry fixed legged paving unit the Grasscrete
system may be quickly and simply installed over existing or new roof
membranes. This enables grass rooftops to be specified across a full
range of projects.
The grassroof system can offer many benefits:
- Better thermal insulation
- Efficient surface water run-off reducing the
potential for flooding
- Reduction in noise – soundproofing
- Protects the underlying roof membrane from
the effects of weather
- Maintains the natural levels of evapo-transpiration
- Balancing the CO2 levels rising from the
traffic below
- Promotion of ‘green space awareness’ benefits
- Reduction in ‘urban heat island’ effect
The grass rooftop system combines paving and
drainage. Their cellular structures are fixed to the roofing
membrane and infilled with lightweight aggregate. The underside is
bonded geo-textile creating a micro-porus barrier than retains the
soil but allows water to pass through into voided drainage systems
below, thereby enabling rainwater harvesting.
Retaining Walls
Grass Concrete offer the Betoconcept range of
dry-building systems for noise control and earth retention. This
interlocking system enables quick construction and offers a
plantable stone finish available in a range of colours.
Their Binwall range offers ideal bin-storage solutions.
It is dry-built and demountable and makes a great choice for waste
recycling, waste transfer and bulk storage solutions.
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