Driveway using permeable paving in colour “Silver Ash” permeable paving with a bluestone border.

Permeable Paving Designs With Feature Borders

Here at New Dawn Permeable Paving, we aim to install perfect permeable paving every time for our clients and customers! For an extra special feature, we occasionally install our permeable paving with feature borders made of traditional paving materials such as bricks or cobblestone. But how? We thought this knowledge base article might help explain, … Continued

Completed School Permeable Paving Project

Commercial Permeable Paving in Schools Case Studies

At New Dawn, our years of expertise and experience in permeable paving means that we’re equipped to handle many different types of commercial applications. Last year, we worked with a commercial builder on a paving installation for the Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Specialist School renovation project. The goal of this installation was to create a … Continued

Heavy Duty Permeable Paving Case Studies

Here at New Dawn, we install permeable paving to suit any application! But the difference between us and the next is that we are permeable specialists that keep everything in-house with no subcontractors involved. That’s why, when quality is required, civil engineers and landscape archit ects specify for us by name like in the detail … Continued

Is there an Australian Standard for Permeable Paving?

Australian Standards (https://www.standards.org.au/) cover just about everything that you might build, buy or encounter in life in Australia. They’re the way to ensure that products have comparable minimum performance standards, and to ensure that works (including almost all aspects of construction) are completed to a safe, high quality standard. For example, there are various standards … Continued

Permeable Paving in the Royal Botanical Gardens

Here at New Dawn, we always get interesting and unique problems to solve with permeable paving. The Problem & Scope We recently received a request to provide permeable paving around a bottle tree in the Children’s Garden in the Royal Botanical Gardens. One of the trees had recently died, so had been replaced. This meant … Continued

Anti Slip Pool Surrounds

Poolside Permeable Paving

We exhibited at the SPASA Pool and Spa Show last weekend, showing off our permeable paving and it’s application around poolsides and spas. Our display at the SPASA Pool and Spa Show Everyone we talked to were interested in the paving – and that if you install it around a poolside, water will drain through … Continued

Permeable Concrete

A significant rise in the number of architects creating both residential and commercial builds have been specifying Permeable Concrete as a surface in landscape plans. Permeable concrete leaves a finessed look and complies with Council regulations – normally in tree protection zones.  So we thought we’d give you a run-down of the porous concrete we … Continued

Options to Repair a Driveway: Resurfacing or New Concrete?

At New Dawn Paving, we specialise in the installation of permeable paving. However, the product we install, Pebble Pave, also works as an extremely cost effective option for driveway resurfacing! Concrete driveways serve as a highly practical area, however, can over time deteriorate and fade from exposure from the elements, oil leaks, the weight of … Continued

beautiful permeable paving

How to pave around mature trees

Paving around trees and mature tree roots in driveways can be difficult. Maintaining mature trees starts by protecting the integrity of their roots, which isn’t easy to do with concrete or pavement. Permeable paving is a modern pavement solution to providing water to tree roots, perfect to keep your garden thriving! The efficiency or permeable … Continued