Two Decade Wait Pays Off for Charcon
Charcon hard landscaping products are taking pride of place on a
high profile re-paving scheme – more than 20 years after the first
stone was laid.
Sevenoaks District Council first used Charcon paving products to
cover part of the town’s high street during a 1980s refurbishment
scheme, which also included flagstones from another supplier.
But, after two decades of heavy pedestrian usage and occasional
HGV access, while the flagstones started to show serious signs of
wear, the modular Charcon paving stones were still going
strong.
Senior Engineer for the council, Steve Smith, said: “When we
came to review the lower end of the high street earlier this year,
it was clear the pavement was in a poor state of repair but the
modular paving stones from Charcon had held up much better than the
larger flagstones. We were very keen to re-use as much of the
existing paving stones as possible but also to keep an attractive
and uniform design to the pavement, so we approached Charcon to
supply the replacement stones.”
The products chosen for the job were Charcon’s EcoPave
Flag Paving. Specially textured for a granite-like appearance
in keeping with the existing street design and architecture, the
flagstones form part of the company’s Eco Range of
products, manufactured at an extremely low cost to the
environment.
For added kerb appeal, the new pavement also includes Charcoal
Europa Block
Paving, which is simple to install, capable of handling heavy
traffic movement and can be easily lifted for access to services
and reinstated without leaving the usual repair scars.
Steve added: “Value for money and sustainability - in terms of
product life and the wider environment - is of utmost importance
when specifying products for this type of scheme and we found that
the EcoPave Flag Paving. was ideally suited to our
requirements. In addition to complementing the character of the
high street, we know from experience they should be very hard
wearing and will hopefully last us for at least another 20
years!”
Charcon has developed the Eco Range of hard landscaping Flag and
Block
Paving and Kerb products to support sustainable
construction. It has the lowest environmental burden in the current
UK marketplace, against products of a similar type.
The range uses recycled by-products from quarrying and
manufacturing as raw materials for precast concrete products. The
only virgin resource used in the product is cement, which has been
partially substituted for waste materials.
All aggregate, sand, and other constituents have been either
recycled or are a waste material. The filter medium used in the
process utilises recycled paper too.
The Sevenoaks repaving project covered around 200 metres of
pavement on each side of the high street. Additional work on
neighbouring streets at the lower end of the town is due to take
place in the future.
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