Products suitable for a variety of applications

One product doing several jobs

Same mix, same crew, poured a different way each time. We put Permcon down as a car park, a footpath, a driveway, or the ground inside a tree protection zone, and it's the same surface underneath every one of them. What changes is the thickness of the slab and the depth of the base beneath it. What stays the same is the mix and the crew that pours it. Water gets handled inside the pavement instead of in pits and pipes chasing it around the site.

Car parks

The mix is 25+ MPa on every application, car park included, and we pour it thicker where heavier vehicles use the bays. Rain passes through the surface at 8,000 to 10,000 mm/hr, so there's no sheet flow running across the aisles after a storm, and the car park stays open in a downpour, with bays draining where they sit rather than sheeting toward a grate. Crews place 500 m² and more in a day, which usually makes a permeable car park a short item on the programme rather than a long one.

This is the application where the numbers move fastest, because permeable paving solutions do best exactly where impervious-area caps and detention requirements bite hardest: a big sealed slab. The base underneath does the detention job a sealed car park would otherwise need a tank and a run of pipework for, in one move.

Footpaths

Footpaths carry a P4 slip rating and drain where they stand, so there's nothing pooling at the kerb after rain. Because the surface keeps letting water and air through, street trees planted alongside it keep getting what they need at the roots.

Driveways and tree protection zones

A driveway runs at the standard 125 mm slab thickness, poured as one continuous surface with no joints along its length. Where a council accepts it, that same driveway counts toward the pervious area of the block. Run it through a tree protection zone and the pavement doesn't cut the tree off: a path or a driveway crossing the zone still leaves air and water reaching the roots under the slab.

Case in point

The same standardisation carries into government housing: a Permcon shared driveway for Victorian Government housing developments is a pervious driveway that can count toward the 20 per cent pervious area called for under Clause 55 guidance.

Ultracon

Ultracon is the same system with a smoother face: 2 to 5 mm stone bound with a permeable resin, laid across the same range of jobs, driveways, paths, pool surrounds, tree protection zones and car parks.

Send us your plans and we'll tell you the thickness and base needed for each area. Our permeable concrete page walks through the system from the surface down, if you want the detail before you call.