TarmacDry at Crocketts Community Primary School
Project brief
Crocketts Community School in Smethwick, Birmingham, is an ‘Exemplar Schools Project’, demonstrating a commitment to the highest affordable levels of sustainable construction. Children at the school worked closely with architects on the new designs for the school building from the beginning of the project.
The solution
The main challenge and the reason to combine the TarmacDry system with an open drainage basin was the low infiltration rates and falls across the site. The final design works with the natural topography of the site to channel the rainwater down through the porous asphalt surface and into the granular reservoir layer. Once within this stone layer water flows to the lowest point in the system to discharge into the open drainage basin. During a peak storm event the basin is designed to overflow into one of the existing drainage runs on campus. This approach was more cost-effective because the alternative would have been to re-engineer the system to have a deeper storage layer.
For details please download the full case study: Crocketts Community Primary School, Birmingham (pdf, 287kb)
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What are the benefits of using TarmacDry porous asphalt system?
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Reduced risk of flooding
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Fast installation over large areas
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Lower cost due to less muck-away and you don’t have to dig as deep
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No need for additional drainage systems
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Environmentally-friendly to the water cycle
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Cope with heavy rainfall
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Smooth surface and skid resistance
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Available in a range of colours
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Patented and BBA accredited
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TarmacDry cleans water which runs through it
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Exceptional lifetime cost savings
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TarmacDry is easier to clean than traditional block-paving systems
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TarmacDry helps you to achieve up to 4 BREEAM points
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Award winning
Crocketts Community School won a national Teaching Award during a ceremony in London during November 2010. The school in Smethwick took the 2010 Department of Education Award for Sustainable Schools. The school became the fourth primary school to win the award that had entries from 90 schools across 12 categories.
