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CASE STUDY CASE STUDY CONCRETE BLOCK PAVING

Watford Junction Chase Grammar School

Watford Junction benefits from exceptional Brett paving solution Grammar School head takes design lead for Brett paving project

Project: Watford Junction Interchange Project: Roads and pavements

Client: Chase Grammar School, Cannock
Client: London Midland
Product: Piatto Paving/Omega Paving/Kassel Kerb
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3,000m
Size:
Size: 1550m 2 We realised that the Brett solution was Product: Brett Omega and Alpha Paving The tumbled finish of the Alpha paving
one that would not only enhance the supplied by Brett instantly conveys the
Brett Landscaping has underlined its ability to bring exceptional proposed aesthetics, but better meet Brett Landscaping has successfully enabled a Headmaster to pave feeling of maturity and delivers a finished
functionality and aesthetics to commercial landscaping London Midland’s requirement of using his way to the successful installation of an impressive 3,000m result that has transformed the school’s
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installations with a 1,550m project to upgrade the passenger block paving to provide a visual guide of road and footpath paving using Brett paving products at Chase exterior superbly, with parents and pupils
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interchange at Watford Junction Station, using its Piatto modular for pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Grammar School in Cannock. The new paving significantly improves astonished by the transformation!
paving range. the school’s previous expanse of tarmac and will help accommodate
its expanding pupil intake which has nearly tripled in recent years.
Brett Piatto modular paving in grey-toned shades of Silver
Granite, Dark Granite and Dark Basalt – was chosen by the Architectural practice, J. Mason Associates of Cannock, combined
station’s operating company, London Midland, as an alternative the paving with an attractive landscaped vista. Effective site
granite aggregate solution that would combine striking aesthetics drainage was essential to the success of the paving scheme, the
with outstanding durability. design therefore incorporated gentle slopes leading into a central
flower bed containing pin oak and landscaped side beds which
Brett enhanced this choice by recommending the integration of enable surface water to drain from upper areas.
our Omega block paving to complement the bus docking areas
and station’s contemporary stainless steel street furniture. School Head and former engineer Mark Ellse, then oversaw the
The large pedestrian area now blends seamlessly into the Kassel complete design, supply, modification and completion of this
bus docking kerbs, and has been sealed using Resiblock Eco unique paving project which successfully divides the space and
for simplified cleaning, saving operational maintenance costs. offers visual definition, while also providing intuitive traffic guidance.
Richard Walklate, the Site Manager for the project main contractor Supplied through builders’ merchant, Ranton Building Supplies, the
J Murphy & Sons, explained the extensive involvement of Brett paving design combines the classic Omega rectangular block with the
Landscaping: “We’d initially commissioned Brett only to supply the traditional feel of tumbled Alpha in Autumn Gold to deliver the right
Kassel bus docking kerbs for the remodelling works. However, visual solution. Functionality is assured by the use of 60mm paving
Brett convinced us that they could add value by taking on project for pedestrian areas and thicker 80mm blocks for the site roads.
management for all of the site’s paving requirements. The final word goes to Mark Ellse “The tumbled finish of the
Alpha paving supplied by Brett instantly conveys the feeling of
We realised that the Brett solution was one that would not maturity and delivers a finished result that has transformed the
only enhance the proposed aesthetics, but better meet London school’s exterior superbly, with parents and pupils astonished by
Midland’s requirement of using block paving to provide a visual the transformation!”
guide for pedestrian and vehicular traffic.”
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