Comments on: The Recycled Glass Driveway at the Cordell Shipping Container House

By: EMME

EMME — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:29:33 +0000

Which hundred block is this on Cordell or give me a cross street. Thanks.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:15:34 +0000

Way too cool! My neighbors are the best! Our back alley could use this, got any extra raw material? We would be very interested in knowing the cost of that system.

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By: Nealio

Nealio — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:03:39 +0000

Awesome! Way to go NUMEN DEVELOPMENT! Now why don’t some of you Swamplotters start buying some container houses from these fine Houstonians.
They have also built an art gallery on 11th St in the Heights.

By: john walker

john walker — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:30:59 +0000

The issue of “leaking oil” is one of the advantages of the system, or of any good permable system, actually….the porosity allows the oil to coat the inner surfaces, and the large arface area provided insures an oxygen-rich area where biological agents can actually break down the hydrocarbons in place… as opposed to traditional paving, which forces the oil to run off with the water into storm drains and ultimately, bayous and bays, where it becomes a pollutant.

By: CK

CK — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:00:53 +0000

Algore would not care in the least. It doesn’t contribute to the business of generating carbon tax credits trading. That’s all that he and his man-made global warming farce are about. This brilliant usage of problematic waste glass is fascinating. I could see the natural reflective nature of the glass significantly improving the issue of heat retainage in parking lots. This will definitely be an interesting product to watch. Porosity could also certainly improve problematic run-off issues and potentially lessen the need for space consuming retention ponds.

By: Gabacho

Gabacho — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:46:37 +0000

Al Gore would be proud! How green!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:29:34 +0000

What do they, much less parking lots, do about soil contamination from the fluids that not too infrequently start to leak from the undersides of cars?

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:49:05 +0000

Its multicolored visual texture is very beautiful. For the past few days it has apparently been curing. It will be very interesting to see how this nifty pavement performs in Houston heat and heavy rains.

By: margo

margo — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:29:10 +0000

There is another container house being built in Rice Military. I think it is off Floyd. Will have to double check on the walk tomorrow. Its been under construction for a good time now but looking pretty cool!

By: movocelot

movocelot — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:02:18 +0000

but for a driveway this isn’t just cool, it’s COOL BEANS!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:23:28 +0000

It looks good. I’d be interested to see how they control the porosity and to see whether the County would buy into it or not. It would also be interesting to see how the voids in the Colorado installation cope with the expansion of water ferezing in the porous cavities.

Of course using glass aggregate itself is nothing new in roadway installations. Generally though the glass is only used to replace part of the rock aggregate because otherwise the surface gets mighty slippery.

By: jayc

jayc — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:10:42 +0000

wished I had a project to use it on. :)