The quickening pace of environmental awareness is leading architects, engineers and developers to look for environmental products and one company has been endorsing environmental products for fifty years.
Grass Concrete Limited, is celebrating its 50th birthday on a platform of growth developed around its Grasscrete paving innovation. With a worldwide commitment to promoting change, this UK firm helped to shift thinking away from uncompromising hard engineering, moving instead towards more enlightened and truly greener solutions.
Grasscrete was first introduced in 1970 as a unique permeable paving solution, the same system is still specified today meeting demands for Sustainable Urban Drainage (SUDS) best practice and is essential for any landscaping external works envelope for housing and commercial projects. Applications range from grassed car parks to driveways, highways hard shoulders and embankments, access roads and spillways as well as major flood defence schemes worldwide.
With Grasscrete the benefits don’t just stop with its impressive levels of permeability. With its promotion of a naturally grassed environment, Grasscrete is able to balance the need for increased urbanisation whilst at the same time helping to maintain a natural green landscape. In urbanised areas this crucially helps to sequestrate CO2, within parking areas, all of this taking place low down at exhaust emission level. The increased levels of greenspace help to elevate levels of evapotranspiration, leading to a cleaner more temperate climate condition.
More recently Grass Concrete’s environmental contribution has matched the growing demands for greener urban landscapes. The company has invested widely in enviro-friendly products including a range of Betoconcept vertical landscaped retaining walls and Grassroof products.
Bob Howden Grass Concrete Limited’s MD says,
“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.”
“Over these last 50 years, we’ve honed an unparalleled level of expertise, which we commit to our clients in many construction sectors and in many locations throughout the world.”