Grasscrete is a unique building product still specified today and not just for permeable paving qualities but for the environmental green landscape it offers.
Wakefield based Grass Concrete Ltd are celebrating 50 years in the construction business, with their world leading grass paving product Grasscrete invented in 1970.
Its popularity reaches a wide construction audience from civils to construction to housebuilders and the company are considered experts in their field of flood mitigation and permeable paving.
Grasscrete was seen to improve and enhance the environment, providing resilient and robust ground engineering. The company’s experts were the first to extol the belief that Grasscrete was a more sustainable way to build.
The heavy-duty nature of Grasscrete remains critical to its success and longevity. Grasscrete has become the generic term for grass paving and is very often the specified product of choice, working in some of the toughest environments – flood, water, and highways projects.
For housing developments regular and heavy weight trafficking can include waste and recycling vehicles along with regular vehicle traffic and necessitates a strong ground structure which plastic systems cannot withstand.
More recently Grass Concrete’s environmental contribution has matched the growing demands for greener urban landscapes.
Bob Howden OBE., Managing Director
“Grass paving systems have an increasing role to play in the development and sustainability of a harmonised landscape. We are very proud of the role we have played and our achievements in helping to push away the traditional barriers to environmental change.”
More and more of today’s housing and commercial developments are fully embracing Grasscrete. We are now seeing grass paving ranging from emergency access roads to domestic driveways to parking areas. Precast Grassblock is an alternative to cast-on site concrete and Grassroad offers a durable hard-wearing grass paving for secondary parking areas.
Grass Concrete has always been keen to add more enviro-friendly products, the company’s environmental leadership has always been fundamental to the business. Betoconcept retaining walls bring replace dull retaining walls with attractive vertical planting areas with integrated soil pockets, perfect where garden space is a premium. The latest Grassroof product offers a lightweight lay and leave no soil system, designed for sedum or succulent planting on flat rooftops.
Bob Howden, Managing Director of Grass Concrete, said:
“With fifty years of industry experience, our policy is to guide clients to the system that is most appropriate to their need. We achieve sustainability through purpose-fit products.”
The Future is Green
Grass Concrete’s has demonstrated a 50-year commitment to structural solutions while safeguarding a natural and sustainable environment. What once might have been a niche concepts have now become mainstream and more and more popular. Who knows what the next 50 years will hold, but Grasscrete has proved that it is enduring and certainly stands the test of time.
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