Case Study: Waverley Council & Woolmer Hill Sports Association

Neoweb and Golpla Fastlay Grass Pavers

Waverley Council Engineer Keith Wilde reports:

Aspirations by the sporting community were high for an overflow grass-paver car park over a large area to cope with busy weekends.

The choice of paver tile in the industry is wide and each system promotes individual features and strengths enthusiastically.

So where do I start with a design? In the case of Woolmer Hill, a robust Local Authority solution counted highest but within a limited budget.

The Golpla Paver, by design, offers good soil capacity and strength and is of consistent high quality German manufacture.

Each cell has thin-walled dividers which will be mostly invisible in the matured surface. It isn't the cheapest, but it took our favour.

Drawing on a public works background we considered a traditional limestone base layer to take the loads but soon realised that together with the excavations the price would go way beyond budget.

Then came a very useful call to Hoofmark…

We were happy to adopt the ‘Fastlay’ system over the parking bays anyway, ie merely stripping the turf and covering the formation in a geogrid before bedding Golpla tiles on a sand bedding layer.

The innovation from Hoofmark was to employ a 100mm depth Rootstone filled Neoweb in aisle areas instead of a deeper limestone layer but achieving similar strength.

So the principal materials were sourced all through Hoofmark and the project completed very satisfactorily within budget.

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