NaturalPAVE Resin Pavement
Asphalt is a problem. Every day, we drive on it, ride the bus or park our cars on it. And while we're looking ahead or racing to work, that asphalt underfoot is perpetuating our dependence on fossil fuels, contributing to the Urban Heat Island Effect and expelling toxins into the air.
NaturalPAVE Resin Pavement may have the answer to our collective problem. From the Soil Stabilization Products Company (SSPCo), NaturalPAVE addresses all of these issues and adds a few green benefits for good measure. At the heart of SSPCo's green paving product is the Resin Pavement binder that holds everything together. It allows pavers to use local aggregate materials to produce pavements that retain the natural color and texture of the local material, while providing the strength and elasticity of traditional blacktop pavement and concrete.
Green Benefits of NaturalPAVE Resin Pavement
NaturalPAVE has several sustainable characteristics that give it fascinating potential for paving our roadways:
- 100% petroleum-free.
- Use of local aggregate materials reduces fuel use, transportation, storage, mixing and placement costs. Also allows paved surface to blend naturally with local environment.
- Solar reflectivity provides a "cool" surface that reflects more harmful UV rays away from the Earth and reduces the Urban Heat Island Effect.
- Cool surface is easier to walk on and safer for children, pets, etc.
- Nontoxic and non-carcinogenic - this benefits worker health during installation and does not contaminate the local water supply.
NaturalPAVE In Action
NaturalPAVE's usefulness and reliability have been put to the test in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Springs Preserve, an old oasis and the birthplace of the city itself. Several miles of roads in the Preserve were paved with NaturalPAVE, as well as parking lots for seven new buildings built during a $300 million dollar construction project on the site. The use of NaturalPAVE at the Springs Preserve was a major contributor to the project's LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Over several years of construction at the site, the NaturalPAVE roads have withstood extensive heavy truck traffic and other automobiles.
NaturalPAVE was also chosen for walkways and roads in a zoo in Washington D.C., due primarily to its ability to stand up to severe winter conditions and stay cool in the summer heat. It has also been utilized in several national recreation areas, including the John Muir National Historic Site and University of California, Riverside.