Bike and walking paths at the two parks in Sunrise, Florida, were surfaced with Porous Pave XL.Porous Pave points to its recently completed job at two city parks in Sunrise, Florida, to demonstrate its pour-in-place surfacing material is the right choice for government customers committed to environmentally friendly building materials.
Visitors walk and bicycle through the new parks, Cypress Preserve and Oak Hammock, on 8-foot-wide permeable paths surfaced with Porous Pave XL. The material is composed of 50 percent recycled rubber chips and 50 percent stone aggregate, along with a moisture-cured binding agent.
“Using permeable paving helps retain stormwater on site,” said Dave Abderhalden, capital projects coordinator with the city of Sunrise Public Works Division. “That supports the goal of preserving green space in the ecologically sensitive areas set aside for the parks.
For the City of Sunrise parks project, Eco Engineering Service installed 2 inches of Porous Pave on a 2-inch base of washed No. 57 limestone.“The project also required a permeable product that pours in place to conform to the curves and small rises designed into the paths,” Abderhalden said. “In addition, minimally intrusive, low-impact installation without big trucks and heavy equipment was important to protect the existing and newly installed landscaping.” Porous Pave is poured in place at thicknesses of 1 to 2 inches atop a compacted aggregate base of 2, 4 or 6 inches, depending on the application and required compressive strength. For the Sunrise parks project, the contractor that built the paths, Eco Engineering Service, installed 2 inches of Porous Pave on a 2-inch base of washed No. 57 limestone.
Tony Sciortino, a partner in Eco Engineering Service of Hillsboro, Florida, said Porous Pave is “best-in-class” for permeable and pervious pavement.
Porous Pave President Dave Ouwinga says the material is engineered with 29 percent void space, “so water passes right through its surface.” Porous Pave reduces stormwater runoff and leaves no puddles of rainwater on the pathways, Ouwinga said.
“The recycled rubber chips in our paving material are processed from scrap tires,” he said. “By using Porous Pave, the city of Sunrise helped keep about 13,000 old tires from ending up in landfills.”
