Concrete pavers enhance Cape-based lifestyle centre

Concrete pavers enhance

CAPE-BASED LIFESTYLE CENTRE

Varied use of precast concrete pavers has been made at the Evergreen Lifestyle Village, a new retirement estate developed by Evergreen Lifestyle in Noordhoek, Cape Town. Six types of pavers, supplied by CMA member CEL Paving Products, were used at the complex, which comprises 96 two-bedroomed apartments and a lifestyle centre.

The paved areas are extensive, covering 12 000m². They include 6 700m² of driveways and parking areas, a 3 500m² parking basement, 1 500m² of walkways and smaller areas of fl owerbed edging and road signage markers.

Completed in February 2021, the driveways and parking areas were paved with CEL’s hard-wearing 70mm Brownstone course exposed interlockers, which rest on a 150mm sub-base comprising recycled concrete in a G5 format.

Grey interlockers, 60mm thick, were used for the parking basement which was completed in November 2020, again using the recycled G5 concrete for a 150mm subbase. In addition, 50mm charcoal bond pavers were used for the demarcation of parking bays.

The centre’s walkways were paved with 50mm fi ne charcoal exposed pavers on a 150mm sub-base of G5 material.

CEL’s 73mm De Hoop matt brown pavers make up the fl owerbed edging in the driveways and parking sections, while its 70mm White Lava Cobble pavers were inserted to create maintenance-free road signage markers in the same areas.

“We crushed some of the recycled concrete material on site with one of our mobile crushers to a G5 specifi cation. The remainder was imported from our plant,” says Gilles Allies, contract manager of GLC Civils, the project’s civil engineering contractors.

“We specifi ed CEL pavers because their quality is exceptional and they are generally readily available. If not, they always make a plan to assist and produce the quantities we require. Moreover, CEL’s Brownstone course exposed interlockers are embedded with natural stone, which adds a natural look and feel to the property.”

(Above, from top): CEL’s Brownstone course exposed interlockers; the parking basement, paved with grey interlockers and CEL’s De Hoop matt brown pavers were used for fl owerbed edging.

(Left): White Lava Cobble pavers were inserted to create maintenance-free road signage.