Geocellular Confinement


Geocellular Confinement takes infill materials and produces a stiff base by creating a semi-rigid slab. The system prevents the lateral displacement of infill materials which eliminates rutting and washboarding usually associated with gravel pavements. The system allows for a reduction in overall base thickness, as well as enabling subgrade materials to withstand more than 10 times the number of cyclic load applications, without the appearance of deflection when compared to unconfined aggregates. GCS allows for the use of lower quality infill materials in situations where quality aggregates are not readily available and helps to create pavements on soft soil subgrades. When it comes to load support in porous paving applications, Cell-Tek's LSG SERIES delivers the competitive advantage.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

BUILDING GREEN: WATER CONSERVATION

By Stephanie Norton (via caddetails.com)

“Active” systems for harvesting rainwater use pipes, tanks and pumps for collecting, filtering, storing and recycling water that would otherwise be sent to municipal sewer or storm water systems. These are differentiated from passive harvesting systems which detain rainwater in vegetated swales, rain gardens, green roofs or permeable pavements so that it can infiltrate naturally back into the soil.



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  1. imhkkiSeptember 3, 2010 at 4:54 AM

    Nice post. To collect the excess water from the roof gardens drainage composite sheets may be used
    http://www.geosyntheticsworld.com/

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