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Concrete paver blocks laid in a circular pattern Concrete paver blocks in a rectangular pattern. A paver is a paving stone, sett, tile, [1] brick [2] or brick-like piece of concrete commonly used as exterior flooring. They are generally placed on top of a foundation which is made of layers of compacted stone and sand.
A sett, also known as a block or Belgian block, [1] is a broadly rectangular quarried stone used in paving roads and walkways. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Formerly in widespread use, particularly on steeper streets because setts provided horses' hooves with better grip than a smooth surface, they are now encountered more usually as decorative stone paving in ...
A set of yellow truncated domes on the down-ramp in a parking lot. Tactile paving (also called tenji blocks, truncated domes, detectable warnings, tactile tiles, tactile ground surface indicators, tactile walking surface indicators, or detectable warning surfaces) is a system of textured ground surface indicators found at roadsides (such as at curb cuts), by and on stairs, and on railway ...
Usually constructed of concrete, pavers, brick, stone, or asphalt, it is designed for pedestrians. A sidewalk is normally higher than the roadway, and separated from it by a curb. There may also be a planted strip between the sidewalk and the roadway and between the roadway and the adjacent land.
Pavers (flooring), an outdoor floor done in blocks; Permeable paving, paving that enables stormwater to flow through it or between gaps; Portuguese pavement, the traditional paving used in most pedestrian areas in Portugal; Resin-bound paving, a mixture of aggregate stones and resin used to pave footpaths, driveways, etc.
Paver (flooring), a multi-shaped, multi-colored piece of brick, concrete or tile; Paver (vehicle), a road construction vehicle; Pavers Shoes, a family-owned footwear business operating in the UK and Ireland
Cobblestones on a road surface in Imola, Italy Sett-paving, such as this surface in Fulham, south-west London, is commonly also often referred to as "cobblestones". Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.
Asphalt batch mix plant A machine laying asphalt concrete, fed from a dump truck. Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, [1] blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams. [2]