Grass Concrete delivers sustainable car park

Grass Concrete provides grass covered car parks and reports an increasing interest in green car park options from specifiers and local authorities.

Many see grass car parks as unviable with the typical British weather, but early Grasscrete installations still trafficked on a daily basis show this isn't the case, says Grass Concrete.

At the Grasscrete installation in the heart of Dublin's greenest location, Farmleigh in Phoenix Park, concrete forms the core structure of the large grass covered car park with car parking for up to 350 cars.

The former home to the Guinness Brewing family now operates as a major visitor attraction and maintaining a natural green perspective was vital.

The need for a sustainable structure for daily traffic, heavy load potentials, coaches and busy traffic for events was also important.

At Farmleigh key factors were: The car park needed to be zoned to enable controlled parking with the potential for rotation; The natural grassland vista of the mansion had to be maintained with elimination of elements such as road kerbs and street furniture; The grass paving would need to accept surface water run-off from its own footprint and that of adjacent access roads avoiding the need for wide scale drainage works.

With its reinforced concrete cast on site structure, Grasscrete was selected as the preferred system.

Available in depths from 76-150mm, the 100mm thick GC1 type was specified, with A252 8mm diameter mesh the surface would be able to cater for traffic up to 13.3 tonnes to include areas allocated to coach parking.

To create the car park zoning the Grasscrete was specified for the parking areas with access roads constructed in a network of asphalt surfaced aisles.

As more and more architects and building specifiers insist on going green, Grasscrete offers a hardwearing and practical solution to green car parking.

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