Our aim is to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date
information on all aspects of paving for the widest possible
audience. The Interpave section will tell you more about
our work as a trade association, our members and other partner
organisations.
This website is organised to help you find the right type
and level of detail of information for your particular needs.
There is a special Domestic Paving section for homeowners
and contractors, concentrating on drives, patios, paths and
other paving around the home. The Topical Issues section
will be of interest to a particularly wide variety of professional
disciplines and the press, offering guidance in downloadable
brochure form on matters of particular importance today.
Of major interest to all those involved with commercial
projects, Interpave’s Design and Construction Information
Documents - or DACIs - combine to provide the definitive,
authoritative information resource on precast concrete paving.
Block Paving, Permeable Paving and SUDS, Flag Paving and
Kerbs & Channels are dealt with in separate sections
of the website. For each, separate DACIs ranging from initial
design, through construction and handling, to maintenance
- or complete DACIs covering all topics - can be downloaded
easily in PDF format.
All PDF files on this website are available for download free of charge: simply complete the registration form to enable you to download all the information you need. Download documents afresh each time you want to refer to them to ensure you have the latest versions.
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LATEST NEWS
SUDS LAW LATEST At the start of 2010, new legislation is before parliament which aims to make sustainable drainage systems (SUDS) - including techniques such as concrete block permeable paving - mandatory. Interpave’s essential guide Understanding Permeable Paving has just been updated to review the new draft legislation. Download Edition 2 of the guide here or read more >>
NEW CASE STUDY Scroll down the page for an important new case study document.
e:Pave LATEST Another issue of Interpave’s digital magazine has been published – scroll down the page for more information.
e:Pave
December 2009 is the latest issue of Interpave's digital magazine which takes over from Interpave's popular hardcopy magazine Pave-It.
Back-issues of e:Pave and Pave-It can also be viewed here with a summary of articles covered in each issue
UNDERSTANDING PERMEABLE PAVING
This important new 20-page document will help all those involved with the development process - including designers and developers, and planning, building control and adoption officers. It deals with legal as well as practical issues and explains the different systems and techniques available.
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A 20-page guidance document which explores current changes in approach to planning, urban design and ‘place shaping’, encouraged by government and other organizations, and fleshed out in adopted guidance such as the Manual for Streets.
CRAIGMILLAR EDINBURGH
A new case study looking at the first stages in the regeneration of the Craigmillar area of Edinburgh – previously the fourth most deprived area in Scotland. It explores the practical application of current approaches to master-planning, urban design and ‘place shaping’, discussed in Interpave’s Planning with Paving. Craigmillar also includes the first concrete block permeable paving to be adopted by a local authority in Scotland.