RE: GBlist: parking lot surfacing recommendations

[Dwight Holmes <dwight@ebuild.com>]

EBN did a review of GrassPave2 from Invisible Structures in 1994.

http://www.ebuild.com/Archives/Product_Reviews/Grass_paving.html

Dwight Holmes
EBN

At 2:47 PM -0600 1/31/2000, Tim Dantoin wrote:
>Is this limited to warm climates?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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?
>
>--
>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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