Projects, product updates and everything permeable concrete.
The aim hasn't changed: less impervious area, less runoff leaving site. What changed on 14 October 2025 is the tool. Victoria's BlueFactor calculator replaced STORM, and permeable concrete still lowers the score either way.
A small sloping block, a stepped base, and a Permcon slab. Here's what a compact installation looks like from the ground up.
A permeable concrete footpath drains where it stands, stores rain in its base, filters what washes off the street and lets air and water reach street-tree roots. Here's what each means for a council officer or developer with a WSUD condition to meet.
Some jobs start with a driveway that's failed. Brea Street's hadn't. We changed the finish and let the owners choose a colour that matched their place.
A Pascoe Vale build had every surface chosen with care, except the driveway. Ultracon gave the owners a premium permeable concrete driveway that drains and matches the house.
No grate to clear, no puddle waiting after the next storm. In Beaconsfield, we poured a permeable concrete base under a family's backyard court so rain drains straight through the tiles into the ground, with no extra drainage on the job.
Water decides more of a driveway job than colour or price. Compare permeable and traditional concrete on drainage, council rules, looks, upkeep, strength and warranty.
The finish homeowners ask for first: an exposed aggregate driveway, stone at the surface. Because the fines are left out, rain that lands on it passes through into the base.
Four colours, one mix: this double-storey townhouse got charcoal permeable concrete across its driveway and entry, dark enough to match the cladding, open enough to drain the rain.
Rain doesn't stop at the surface. It passes through Permcon at 8,000 to 10,000 mm/hr into a bed of clean screenings, which stores up to 28 litres per square metre for every 100 mm, or feeds it straight into the ground.
The job here has two parts: Permcon under the padel courts as a flat, free-draining base, and across the seating terraces above, both clearing a storm fast.
Kids don't watch their feet, so a play yard can't rely on them to dodge a grate or a puddle. A permeable concrete playground drains through itself instead, so puddles don't sit on the surface after rain.
Driveways, paths, pool surrounds, car parks, footpaths and the ground around a rain garden: this is the full spread of permeable concrete uses, at home and on commercial sites.
Water that used to pool on this Warrandyte driveway now soaks straight through: a permeable concrete driveway and paths poured as one surface around established gardens and trees.
Rain goes straight through this permeable concrete driveway, a soft grey that sits quietly against the house rather than dominating it.
A driveway can run straight through a tree's Tree Protection Zone. Sealed concrete isn't an option there, so that section goes down in Permcon instead.
A Melbourne permeable driveway pour has one thing to prove: that it drains. Here's a recent pour day, the base built underneath it, and the numbers behind the surface.
Permcon is one mix, one crew, poured as a car park, footpath, driveway or the ground inside a tree protection zone. The surface changes job. The product doesn't.
Trucks, trolleys and customers all use the same surface at a busy commercial car park, every day, in every kind of weather. This is what the site needed, what went down, and how the finished surface copes with water and constant wheels.
One driveway. Several homes. A residential unit complex poured in Permcon, driveways, paths and communal areas included, so rain drains on the spot and puddles never form.
Tie-down chains bolt into the pavement under aircraft wings at Lilydale Airport, where we poured a permeable concrete pavement sized off our loading chart. Rain drains through instead of pooling.