Sustainable Paving

Permeable paving provide an excellent car park surfacing solution to help manage surface water run off in a SuDS compliant way.

Sudspave Porous Paving

Sudspave permeable pavers are easy to handle onsite and supplied in 1 sqm pre-assembled panels for speed of installation.

Permeable Access Roads

Permeable Paving can be used to build access roads, maintenance tracks as well as parking areas.

Heavy Loading

Permeable pavements are not just limited to light traffic. Crane pads at this wind farm utilise Truckcell to create a permeable and stable surface for the installation of wind turbines.

Reduced Construction Thickness

Abweb geocell can be used to reduce the construction thickness needed to ensure stability with a free draining Type 3 subbase, while Fildrain enhances the drainage performance.

Hybrid solutions using permeable paving from ABG geosynthetics

Whilst a porous surface is the fundamental feature of any sustainable paving system, a hybrid approach also involving the use of traditional non–pervious paving can often deliver the optimum solution in terms of performance, buildability and cost.

Sustainable permeable paving from ABG Geosynthetics

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Using a permeable pavement solves a number of problems associated with managing stormwater in a sustainable way. The hydraulic capacity of a porous pavement can accommodate rainfall landing directly on to it, and also from adjacent surface catchments including roofs.

The combination of surface options also facilitates an enhanced level of flexibility and choice in satisfying the aesthetic requirements of the project. Stabilised gravel can produce a much wider variety of different finishes to compliment the development than a porous concrete system could offer.

ABG offer systems that can be used to create grass or gravel finishes for varying levels of traffic. Sudspave can be used with traffic such as cars and vans, while Truckcell provides a solution for HGV and other heavy vehicles.

The design and specification of the individual components within a sustainable paving / permeable pavement solution is entirely project specific but will typically comprise a porous surface laid over an open graded granular sub-base that satisfies the structural and hydraulic requirements of the project.

Geosynthetics in Sustainable Pavements

Geosynthetics play an important part in the design and long term performance of porous paving structures.

Ground Stabilisation

Permeable paving provides a solution for reinforcing pavements for traffic where a gravel or grass surface is required. Plastic porous pavers are suitable for access roads and car parking areas.

ABG Sudspave is an example of a permeable gravel or grass surface reinforcement system

Where a fully green finish is required our Advanced Turf System can be used to create a grass surface that drains quickly and provides the bearing capacity to deal with almost any circumstances.

Filtration & Separation

The use of geotextiles such as Terrex NW as both filtration and separation layers. This greatly improves the quality of water discharged from within the system whilst also preventing clogging of the drainage system.

Reinforcement

Abgrid geogrids and Abweb cellular reinforcement can also be incorporated to enhance the structural strength which allows the paving to be constructed thinner, safer and use less materials.

ABG Abweb Geocell for ground stabilisation

Drainage & Attenuation

Also, the use of innovative geocomposite void formers such as Ecobloc or Deckdrain to create cost-effective attenuation or drainage layers can further reduce the depth of stone required within the pavement construction.

FEATURED PERMEABLE PAVING PROJECTS

Browse through a selection of our highly successful sustainable porous paving projects. From SuDS source control compliant gravel and grass car parks,fire access truck and cherry picker access routes on grass to heavy duty permeable paving blocks to support cranes constructing turbines on wind farms.

ABG Sudspave 40 recycled porous paving installed at the National Star College, Ullenwood Manor, UK for a SuDS Porous Paved Car Park

ABG Sudspave 40 recycled porous paving installed at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall Estate for a SuDS gravel porous paved Car Park

ABG Truckcell porous access roads and maintenance yard

ABG Truckcell 80 heavy duty permeable paving grids insatlled at The The Wave Inland Surfing Lake, Washingpool Farm for porous access roads & the maintenance yard

Herne Bay Recluver Country Park for a gravelled SuDS porous paved carpark

ABG Truckcell 80 heavy duty permeable paving grids installed at Herne Bay Reculver Country Park for a gravelled SuDS porous paved carpark

ABG Advanced Turf System (ATS400/B) installed at Cambridge Eddington, NW University Development for Grassed Overflow Parking Areas

ABG Truckcell 80 heavy duty SuDS permeable paving grids insatlled for HGV Parking Areas at the Red Lion Truck Stop, Harpole, UK

ABG Truckcell 80 heavy duty SuDS permeable paving grids for HGV Parking Areas at the Red Lion Truckstop,
M1/J16, Harpole, UK

ABG Sudspave 40
SuDS Permeable Gravel Car Parking,
Devour, Holmfirth, UK

ABG Sudspave 40
SuDS Permeable Gravel Car Parking,
Wexham Park Hospital, UK

ABG Sudpsave 40
SuDS Permeable Car Park
National Trust, Quarry Bank Mill, Cheshire, UK

ABG Sudspave 40
Grass and Gravel Filled Porous Paving,
Truro Park and Ride, UK

ABG Truckcell 80
Bus Turning Areas / Permeable Paving,
Truro Park and Ride, UK

ABG Truckcell 80 heavy duty SuDS permeable paving grids

ABG Truckcell 80
SuDS Permeable Crane Hardstandings,
Wadlow Wind Farm, UK

ABG Truckcell 80
SuDS Permeable Paving,
Denbrook Wind Farm, Devon, UK

ABG Truckcell 80 SuDS Permeable HGV Parking Area, Cannock, UK

ABG Truckcell 80
SuDS Permeable HGV Parking Area,
Road King Truckstop, A5 Cannock, UK

ABG Sudspave 40,
Permeable Gravel Access & Parking,
University of Derby, UK

ABG Advanced Turf System (ATS)
Fire and Emergency Vehicle Access,
York University, UK

ABG Sudspave 40 Permeable Grassed Access Path, River Embankment, Scotland, UK

ABG Sudspave 40
Permeable Grassed Access Path
Scotland, UK

ABG Truckcell 80
Grassed Emergency Turnaround Areas,
M1 J20-21, UK

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Erosaweb Geocell

Erosaweb geocell is designed for the reinforcement of weak soils and has many applications including retention of soils on steep slopes and highway and rail embankments. The cells of the geocell retain the fill material, while allowing water through.

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Erosaweb Geocell is a cellular confinement system

Abweb TRP - Tree Root Protection

No-dig geocellular alternative to traditional methods of constructing paths, roads and parking areas in and around trees. It is designed to protect the root structure of the tree from damage caused from the compaction of the local soils as a result of vehicular traffic.

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ABG Abweb geocell for tree root protection access roads

Sudspave Permeable Pavers

Sudspave is a permeable paving grid system of interlocking cellular plastic porous pavers designed for the stabilisation of trafficked grass or gravel surfaces. Used where a free-draining permeable gravel or grass car park, access road or driveway is required.

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Sudspave plastic porous paving grid for permeable trafficable gravel or grass surfaces

Advanced Turf - Reinforced Grass

Netlon Advanced Turf System (Netlon ATS) is a high performance mesh-element reinforced natural grass rootzone system. It provides an aesthetic, SuDS compliant free-draining grassed surface, capable of sustaining heavy vehicle loadings in occasional-use applications.

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Netlon Advanced Turf reinforced grass system for traffic from ABG Geosynthetics

Truckcell Heavy-Duty Porous Paver

Truckcell™ is a heavy-duty cellular porous paving system designed for intensive usage and high-load traffic applications. The permeable paver can be filled with topsoil and seeded or with gravel to provide a structural surface for HGV traffic, trucks, coaches and fork-lift trucks.

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