As part of the current renovation at Tampa's Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park, PermaTrak has come alongside the city's designers, engineers and developers to design and produce an elevated concrete walkway, which park-goers can use to enjoy ...
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Boardwalk Construction,
News
PermaTrak Boardwalks Over Wetlands at Upper Tampa Bay Trail, Florida Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater residents have been enjoying the Florida winter even more so this year with the Phase IV additions to the Upper Tampa Bay Trail in ...
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Multi Use Trails and Greenways,
Wetland Boardwalks
If you have been under contract for design services on a publicly funded project, you know that sole sourcing hardscape products is almost always disallowed. So when your project involves federal, county or local funding, how can you play ...
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Boardwalk Materials,
Concrete Boardwalk Questions
Engineers and designers often ask what they need to provide for us to begin design documents for their PermaTrak pedestrian bridge or boardwalk system. I'm Jason Philbin, P.E. and PermaTrak President, and in the video below I talk about ...
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Boardwalk Design
If you are a landscape architect busy conceptualizing a boardwalk or pedestrian bridge project, you're probably thinking about colors and textures - and wondering whether our concrete boardwalk product can be colored, stained or sealed?
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Boardwalk Materials
Architects and engineers often come to PermaTrak when they have a specific design challenge they're addressing for a client. This is most often for a commercial boardwalk system or pedestrian bridge project. Over the years we've identified ...
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Boardwalk Materials,
Boardwalk Design
Note: the "sandblast" texture is no longer offered, but check out our other slip-resistant PermaTrak textures. Between McMullen Creek Greenway, Lower McAlpine Greenway and Four Mile Creek Greenway, Mecklenburg County, NC Parks & ...
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Multi Use Trails and Greenways
If you're researching boardwalk or pedestrian bridge materials, you're probably comparing wood (timber) decking vs. composite decking vs. concrete. Building materials perform best when they are utilized in very specific capacities and ...
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Topics:
Boardwalk Materials,
Concrete Boardwalk Questions
On June 1, 2014 the PermaTrak boardwalk at Wolf Lake saw its heaviest action to date by camera crews on motorcycles and golf carts following hundreds of runners during the first race of Chicagoland's Tri Series, Leon's "World's Fastest" ...
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Multi Use Trails and Greenways
Do general contractors need to be pre-certified to install PermaTrak? Is a concrete boardwalk difficult to install for the first time, for a team that hasn't installed PermaTrak before? Fritz Fromherz discusses types of general contractors ...
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Boardwalk Construction