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Name of Project: LOGISTICS AREA, Export- Import company Address: Neudrossenfeld, Germany Application: Used as ECORASTER truck access for the movement of goods, parking and fire access lane as permeable pavement. Area in square meters: approx. 1,700 m² Products used: ECORASTER E 50 with a classical base and crushed basalt gravel fill Construction period: August 2012 Description 1. Summary Problem: In order to meet the the ever increasing demands of the modern transport industry, a new logistics center for this importer of goods from the area of Eastern Europe and Asia was inevitable. The design should meet practical, visual and contemporary performance demands. Solution / Implementation As access loading space and parking for customers and employees to the modern warehouse, approx. 1,700 m² ECORASTER E50 created a pavement that was permeable and stableand even with high rainfall and ensures a controlled drainage and met the technical requirements.

Name of Project: Parking Regional Airport Court Address: 95032 Hof, Bavaria, Germany Application: use ECORASTER permeable paving as parking space for cars Moved in square meters: approx. 2,250 m² Products used: ECORASTER E 50 with a classical base and decorative gravel Construction period: November 2008 Description 1. Summary Problem: To comply with the increasing demands of modern air transport, the modernization of the airport had become imperative. The design should meet practical, visually sophisticated and contemporary performance demands. Solution / Implementation In order to effectively implement such a large construction projects, companies with high technical competence are required, as the company Ecora offers. The decision to implement the original, patented ECORASTER E50 permeable paving system from neighboring Arzberg , was not hard for the person in charge of the aerodrome. The requirements for the new parking were varied in nature, and therefore best met with a product with the advantages ECORASTER has to offer.

Name of Project: CENTER PARC, Belgium Address: De Haan (Brugge), Belgium Application: use of ECORASTER premeable paving in road and walkways for visitors and delivery vehicles as well as emergency access road. Area installed in m²: approximately 4.500 m² Products used: ECORASTER E 50 with a classical base and decorative gravel Construction period: July 2009 Description 1. Summary Problem: Directly on the lake shore, yet only a stone’s throw away from the longest sandy beach in Belgium, guests breathe in the sea air at Park De Haan. The beautiful Lakeside cottages are located there. Permeable paving was needed for the driveways and paths, this meant being able to combine contemporary requirements with near-natural appearance. The design meets practical, visually sophisticated and contemporary performance demands. Solution / Implementation: Adjacent to the guest accommodation approx. 4,500 m² of ECORASTER E50, a well known system to create a pavement that does not seal the ground, and even with high rainfall ensures controlled drainage.

We did take the Ecoraster to our cottage by van. We started by trying to drive up the slope to the cottage but only manage 8 meters thanks to the grids we had previously laid down. Then the two of us started to move the gravel by hand and prepare before laying down the Ecoraster. It was very pressed and various size of stones. We complete the installation in 3,5 hours. The Ecoraster was covered in gravel and we just walked the grids to get the gravel and the grids to settle. We now tried to drive the van and it went in the first try up the slope. The slope is in total 50 meters long and the angle is 25% according to measuring equipment. Sighvatur Arnarson.

Name of Project: Parking Lohengrin Therme Address: 95448 Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany Application: ECORASTER permeable paving as storage space for cars Area in square meters: 1,500 m² Products used: ECORASTER E 50, grassed, with a standard base Construction period: November 2008 Description 1. Summary Problem: Surrounded by green - nestled between the spa Hermitage, the magnificent summer residence of Margravine Wilhelmine, the natural sanctuary of Rotmaintales and an 18-hole championship golf course - the Lohengrin thermal baths was built in two years, and opened its doors on November 22, 1999. The paving should be suitably designed. Solution / Implementation The Lohengrin Therme is a place where nature provides people with water and heat, health and well-being. Therefore it was only logical for the exterior design of the architectural concept to follow with a natural appearance using ground re-inforcment for parking, this meant being able to combine contemporary requirements with near-natural appearance.

[Mr. Waterman serves as the metaphor of the nature and character of water flow.]   Redesigning a river and its watershed or building a dam in the wrong place will undoubtedly change the face of the environment. Toping the list of environmental change are our urban areas. In 1992, in Central Florida the Kissimmee River Restoration began. It has been cited as one of the most successful ecosystem restoration initiatives undertaken. By re-channelizing the River to replicate its natural paths, birds and other wildlife responded more quickly than anticipated and demonstrated the resiliency of nature. However, the great China Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River, also know as China’s super Green Initiative, proved disastrous environmentally and financially. The project, which began in 1993, came with dangerous risks that the weight of the reservoir would “alter China’s geology, uproot millions of people, poison water supplies by trapping pollution, and disrupt the Yangtze watershed.” And that it did at the cost of 22.5 billion dollars and causing server heartaches for1.4 million people. Large urban areas are being challenged with water run-off and sewage problems. Too much rainwater is clogging up the sewers and treatment plants. This is a global problem and needs immediate attention. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an agenda to force municipalities to take remedial action—it’s called a Big Fine—sometimes in the millions. No matter which way you look at it, water flow has a mind of it’s own, so to speak. It needs to be respected and sometimes we need to collaborate with the “Waterman.” The “Waterman” in urban areas has been shot dead. But his ghost is still around. It’s causing havoc, pollution, flooding, and even the potential for serious disease. […]