Rainy season is here and so is Detective Liguori! With steady rain, David was quick to visit a recent BAPC installation in San Carlos and the evidence is undeniable. The newly installed pervious drive aisles infiltrate water just as quickly as it pours down. No puddles - no mess. The verdict: “When it rains, it drains!”
A stark contrast to the growing puddle along the street, and a quick reminder that Bay Area Pervious Concrete has a pervious solution for you.
We made it on the news!
ForConstructionPros.com just published a recent concrete article detailing the evolution of pervious concrete. With new and improved specifications, an ACI committee and NRMCA certification designed specifically for pervious concrete, it’s fair to say many more opportunities await pervious concrete as urban development continues to skyrocket. From start to finish, the article goes in length to discuss the installation process AND features our very own experienced crew in our iconic orange shirts! Orange and green have never been this fashionable!
If you’re curious to learn more about pervious concrete, BAPC’s David Liguori is passionate about educating professionals when it comes to all things pervious. Contact us today!
Photo taken during BAPC’s installation for Holloway Green Streets project in San Francisco.
Bay Area Pervious Concrete owner and technical guru, David Liguori, took a trip to Walnut Creek to put our product to the test for a three year review, and what he found was a parking lot in near mint condition. Installed in 2020, the Skilled Nursey Facility features nearly 19,000 square feet of pervious concrete - curb to curb.
With no asphalt draining onto the pavement, the asphalt fines and associated sediment that typically cause clogging in hybrid designs (mixing asphalt and pervious concrete) are non-existent. As the video shows, a well-designed system and properly installed pervious pavement offers high level performance with little or no maintenance.
The pavement passed with flying colors when it came to infiltration testing with water disappearing instantly. But the most important take-away isn’t the fact that our product can easily meet stormwater requirements without taking up more space than needed, or the fact that our product can infiltrate stormwater without the need of expensive infrastructure, or our variety of cost-effective options. What is most important is a strong system starts with strong project design that results in effectiveness and longevity. An area that David Liguori is particularly passionate about.
Do you have an upcoming project, but you’re unsure how to create a highly effective and long lasting system? What are you waiting for? David is only a call away for design consultation, industry expertise, and ease of mind.
2022 started off with lots of pervious concrete. 65,980 square feet to be exact!
Located in Fremont, the California Nursery Historical Park is our largest municipal project to date - a fantastic way to start the new year.! Aerial footage shows expansive earth-toned parking lots and pedestrian pathways found throughout the freshly renovated park. The perfect compliment to the rolling hills that surround the area. Next year’s rain stands no chance in spoiling strolls through the park, that’s for certain.
The park is open to the public for those that live in the Bay Area (we highly recommend), much like our office is open to those interested in the variety of pervious products we have to offer.
Main parking lot - CA Nursery Historical Park, Fremont CA
Whether it’s big or small, commercial or municipal, Bay Area Pervious Concrete has a solution for you. Give us a call today!
Take a quick flight across Sacramento State's newly installed pervious parking stalls with David Liguori as your trusty drone captain and NRMCA certified installer. Aerial footage provides a brief glimpse at ~66,000 sqft of pervious parking nestled between new student housing; eliminating the need for adjacent drainage systems that clog with debris throughout the year.
Why spend more when you can do more with less?
Interested in our product? Ask for a consultation today to see what works best for your project.
Follow along as David navigates through Hayward's newly renovated Heritage Plaza adjacent to the new 21st Century Library! Along a lush canopy of trees and native landscape, over 20,000 sqft of pervious concrete leads pedestrian traffic throughout the facility. The newly installed pathways showcase one of our more popular finishes, BAPC fine-grain polished with integral colors.
Aerial view of Heritage Plaza, Hayward CA
The Plaza’s advance design and green infrastructure boasts an impressive rainwater filtration system - this of course, includes the pervious pathways, with potential to collect and reuse approximately 200,000 gallons annually! Collected water will be reused for irrigation purposes throughout the plaza.
Like what you see? Contact us today to learn more about our products and services!
Who ever said you can’t play in the rain?
With our pervious sports court options, the rain stands no chance in spoiling fun. Watch our video to learn about our product. Have questions? Just contact our office!
We have some great news to share backed by data-driven research!
Some of you may recall our work along Holloway Street back in 2017. If not, can you read about it here. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) hired us to install parking lanes along eight blocks of Holloway Street as part of a city-wide effort showcasing the effectiveness of green infrastructure and stormwater management in the Ingleside neighborhood.
Holloway Green Streets Project - north side
After completion, the area was carefully monitored between 2017-2019. Analyzing two years’ worth of data, the pervious concrete along with the rain gardens show an impressive overall reduction in stormwater volume of 77%! With results like this, it is no surprise the adaption of pervious concrete stormwater pavement systems into new green infrastructure design continues to grow at a rapid pace.
As SFPUC’s Green Infrastructure Planning Specialist, Mike Adamow said, “After four years of service, the pervious concrete installed on the SFPUC’s Holloway Green Street project has met or exceeded our expectations and is providing valuable lessons learned that we will use to inform the design of future projects. The combination of a well-trained and experienced contractor, a proven mix design, close contractor coordination with the concrete supplier during batching and delivery, along with proper protection after installation has resulted in an asset that should serve the SFPUC ratepayers well for years to come. As this and other types of permeable pavement installations age, it is becoming clear that the advantages of pervious concrete position this material to be the preferred permeable pavement type for future SFPUC projects.”
The Bay Area just had it’s first big storm of the year - foretelling of a very rainy winter season ahead! While most people took shelter, David Liguori hit the road in search of the latest scoop when it comes to pervious concrete outperforming conventional concrete and asphalt surfaces.
Where did his stormwater sleuthing lead him to this time? To a very water-bogged Daly City. Luckily for him, he found dry land thanks to a pervious parking lot that BAPC installed a few months ago. How did it fair in such torrential rain? Perfectly! Just take a look for yourself.
Nestled across the bay, the 21st Century Hayward Library is marking great strides towards completion. Bay Area Pervious Concrete has been working on this particular project for some months now. As our work nears it’s end, the finishing touches for landscaping are being added. All in all, the new library is a beautiful public space that residents will soon be able to enjoy! Designed with winding pedestrian pathways showcasing our fine-grain polished finish infused with warm earth tones, this new library is nothing short of a modern marvel.
Read MoreRunning out of room at their current location, the South San Francisco Scavenger Company recently purchased a large property to store their debris boxes and garbage bins. The 66,000 square foot yard, however, was a combination of dirt and gravel, and not at all suitable for their needs. The initial plan was to pave the yard with asphalt, until the City informed them they could not do anything that would increase the quantity of stormwater-runoff from the property.
Read MoreBay Area Pervious Concrete was recently asked to install our decorative exposed aggregate pervious pavement in the parking areas of a high-end residential project. The driveway itself was a beautiful 2’ x 2’ Italian stone and was designed to be permeable. To achieve this, the landscape contractor used a Class II permeable base and then mortared directly on the base to set the stones. The bed of mortar was carefully placed so as not to fill the spaces between the stone, creating a passageway for surface water to pass through to the base rock.
Read More“One of these things is not like the other,” Ernie from Sesame Street said it best. For those that claim impervious surfaces, such as asphalt and concrete, and pervious surfaces are synonymous, that is not true. Bay Area Pervious Concrete’s David Liguori went out on the field this week to report on some real-time comparisons between these two surfaces during our most recent storm, and the evidence is striking.
Read MoreMr. Liguori has returned!
With the first heavy rainfall of the year, David was quick to grab his coat to report out on the field to bring you another episode in our Stormwater Sleuthing series. This episode features the highly effective performance of pervious concrete in a parking lot during a two-day torrential rainstorm. The project was installed about a year ago at Golden Hill Cemetery in Colma, CA and is still working as intended. As they say in the pervious concrete industry, when it rains, it drains!
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And nothing speaks louder than Bay Area Pervious Concrete’s first multi-layer decorative installation with radiant heating at a massive residential project in Lake Tahoe. The project began this summer after two years of cross-collaboration between the architect, engineer, general contractor, and Bay Area Pervious Concrete.
Read MoreWant to know how much base rock you need under your pervious concrete pavement? We've done all the calculations for you! Designed with low infiltration soils, like Class C & D, in mind these design tables allow you to quickly size the infiltration bed underneath your pervious concrete. Tables feature calculations for infiltration rates as low as 0.025 inches per hour!
Read MoreBack in 2013 Bay Area Pervious Concrete was hired to install some BAPC Polished Pervious Concrete™ on the newly expanded campus of White Hill Middle School in Fairfax, CA. The project's site designs were done by our friends at Sherwood Engineers. Recently, a group of Sherwood Engineers project managers took a tour of the school to review how the site improvements fared after five years of use. They were kind enough to share some photos with us.
Read MoreInterested to learn how pervious concrete pavement systems are considerably more effective, and versatile, than other stormwater management BMPs? Or how pervious concrete can simplify your stormwater management designs and reduce project costs? Join the APWA Monterey Bay Chapter and Bay Area Pervious Concrete on June 7th in Seaside, CA for a FREE three hour technical workshop that will provide you with the knowledge and tools to simplify your stormwater designs, using cost effective and low maintenance pervious concrete stormwater systems.
Read MoreIt's April, so it's the perfect time for some spring cleaning! Time to clean out those dusty pervious concrete specifications and design details you have laying around, and replace them with something new and fresh. We have released new updates on all the favorites!
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Over the several years BAPC's David Liguori has worked with Caltrans to update their pervious concrete design guidelines and specifications. Recently, he and the California Nevada Cement Association were asked by Caltrans District 4 to provide a pervious concrete workshop for their material, pavement, stormwater, and highway engineers.
The three hour workshop provided 28 Caltrans engineers with the latest developments in pervious concrete system design, specifications, and best management practices. Afterwards attendees were bursting with ideas and projects where pervious concrete would help solve their stormwater design issues. They expressed how grateful they were that our presentation was technical, detail-oriented and highly educational, not just a fluffy sales-pitch.
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