Tag: stormwater management

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Permeable pavement: Addressing common questions and concerns

Across the country, permeable, or porous, pavement is gaining popularity over traditional paving solutions like concrete and non-porous asphalt. Permeable pavement is comprised of a combination of interlocking grids that are laid over a prepared subsurface. The grids are filled with one of several fill materials, such as gravel, crushed limestone, or grass. This results […]

September 23, 2019

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Hardscaping how to: Permeable paver installation

Permeable pavers offer beautiful hardscape design with sustainable and environmentally beneficial properties. Learn more here on Total Landscape Care.

August 22, 2019

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Getting involved: How your company can participate in outdoor classroom design

We talked yesterday about the importance of getting students involved in the green industry and how you as a professional landscaper can lend a hand by partnering with groups like Out Teach, a non-profit organization that helps build outdoor classroom spaces. Today, we’ll take a look at what you need to do if your company […]

June 21, 2019

Business

Revitalization: Keeping design ideas fresh

Everyone gets in a design rut from time to time, and with this new year on the horizon, landscaper designers might be worried about keeping their designs fresh.

January 17, 2019

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Porous Pave utilizes more than 10 million pounds of recycled tire rubber

Porous Pave shreds and processes discarded tires to produce 1/8-1/4-inch chips of recycled rubber. Read more on their environmental milestone here!

October 10, 2017

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Porous Pave used to avert stormwater issue at Garden of Peace in Pennsylvania

The Samuel A. Green House is a low-income housing tax credit building for the elderly and the green space was designed with them in mind. Details here!

July 18, 2017

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Historic town goes the extra mile to incorporate stormwater management

This project was originally supposed to be merely a repair job from a magnitude-5.8 earthquake and following flood that occurred back in 2011. Details here.

April 26, 2017

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Environmental preservation group chooses Porous Pave

When the APCC began creating its Living Landscape Laboratory, it chose to use Porous Pave XL as its permeable paving material. Read more on Total Landscape Care

April 7, 2017

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Detroit combats urban decay, pollution with rain gardens

Detroit is home to several bioretention gardens, thanks to a collaboration between Water and Sewage Department and the University of Michigan that enlivens the city.

June 2, 2016

Business

Landscape architects create children’s area for library

BBS Architects, Landscape Architects and Engineers has completed the outdoor Children’s Program Area at the Sayville Public Library in Sayville, New York. BBS served as landscape architect and civil engineer for the project. The new $125,000, 750-square-foot outdoor plaza and auditorium serves as a multifunctional children’s event area. “It has replaced an underutilized, sloping lawn […]

August 26, 2015

Business

NDS touts single-source solution for stormwater issues

NDS, a California-based provider of stormwater management solutions, has introduced the S5 Sustainable Stormwater Solution. S5 is a scalable and flexible single-source solution that is engineered for high performance, offering up to 250 percent more detention volume than traditional gravel-only systems and qualifying for LEED credits. S5 uses numerous NDS components, such as catch basins, […]

August 24, 2015

Business

ASLA to Offer Educational Sessions for Women in Landscape Architecture

The American Society of Landscape Architects will be offering a way for women in landscape architecture to get involved.

November 13, 2014