RE: GBlist: parking lot surfacing recommendations

["Tim Dantoin" <tdantoin@omnni.com>]

Is this limited to warm climates?

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From: owner-greenbuilding@crest.org
[mailto:owner-greenbuilding@crest.org]On Behalf Of Phil Ferraro
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 2:36 PM
To: Bion D. Howard
Cc: greenbuilding@crest.org; milsk@rhodes.edu
Subject: Re: GBlist: parking lot surfacing recommendations


Invisible Structures has installed a parking lot at the Orange Bowl in Miami
and many other places that uses an "invisible" plastic grid structure,
honeycomb shaped filled with soil and grass.  It looks like a lawn but can
handle heavy traffice. firetruck stabilizers etc.
I've never seen it myself but the literature is impressive

Bion D. Howard wrote:

> Student Request:
> How about some comments on "green" parking lot surfacing?I am looking for
a
> semi-permeable parking lot material that can act as an
> alternative to asphalt.  At Rhodes College there is a temporary parking
lot
> in the planning stages and they would like to use a material that is both
> cost efficient and environmentally friendly. Do you have any suggestions
or
> the number of anyone I can ask?

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Phil Ferraro, Institute for Bioregional Studies Ltd.
Phone: (902) 368-2005
Fax:     (902) 368-2520
Email: adapt.pei@pei.sympatico.ca


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