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CON/STORM Culvert System

CON/STORM® Culvert System

Lightweight and Cost Effective Concrete Culvert Solution

CON/STORM logoCON/STORM Culvert Systems are the open-bottom solution for sensitive sites, spanning delineated areas to avoid special permits and save valuable time during the planning and review process. Typical structures are installed in a day, allowing for minimal disturbance to the stream area.

Efficiently designed arch sections minimize the weight of the precast, resulting in significant cost savings to the owner compared to other precast products with an equivalent hydraulic opening. Depending on the site, cranes are typically not needed to install CON/STORM units.
 
Benefits of the CON/STORM Culvert System:
  • Precast concrete - Provides strong, durable structure.
  • Lightweight units - Minimize freight costs and installation without the use of heavy equipment.
  • Arch Strength - Unique shape can support heavy loads and high fill.
  • Performance Verified - Full-scale testing verified design methodology and safety factors for AASHTO loading.
  • Flexible Design - Various span and rise combinations can be set atop precast or cast-in-place slab or strip foundation.

CON/STORM for Culverts

CON/STORM CulvertThe three-sided precast concrete arch structure of the CON/STORM provides a cost-effective culvert solution.

 

SS Credit 1 – Site Selection, 1 Point

Intent – Avoid the development of inappropriate sites and reduce the environmental impact from the location of a building.

Potential Contribution: Bridge and Structures

  • Long clear spans allow you to cross sensitive areas with little or no impact
  • Maintain a 50-foot buffer on either side of the waterway

SS Credit 2 – Development Density and Community Connectivity, 2-5 Points

Intent – Channel development to urban areas with existing infrastructure, protect greenfields and preserve habitat and natural resources.

Potential Contribution: Bridges and Structures
  • Connect people and services over roads, under rail crossings and across streams
  • Shorten walking distance to basic services
  • Provide aesthetic solutions

SS Credit 4.1 – Alternative Transportation, Public Transportation Access, 1-6 Points

Intent – Reduce pollution and land development impacts from automobile use.

Potential contribution: Bridges and Structures
  • Create bicycle trail connectivity - allowing alternative transportation mode
  • Create shorter, safer pedestrian access to public transit
  • Bring public transportation (i.e. railway) into a community with minimal impact to existing roads and grades

MR Credit 4 – Recycled Content, 1-2 Points

Intent – Increase the demand for building products that incorporate recycled content materials. The sum of post-consumer recycled content plus one-half of the pre-consumer content constitutes at least 10% (1 point) or 20% (2 points), based on cost, of the total value of the materials in the project.

Potential Contributions: CONTECH Concrete Structures
  • Many CONTECH vendors use recycled materials in their concrete mixes
  • Contact your local CONTECH representative for project specific information.

MR Credit 5.1 – Regional Materials, 1-2 Points

Intent – Increase demand for building materials and products that are extracted and manufactured locally to a job site in hopes to reduce the environmental impact that would result from transporting these goods. Products manufactured, extracted and recycled within 500 miles of the project site for a minimum of 10% (1 point) or 20% (2 points), based on cost of the total materials value.

Potential Contribution: All CONTECH Products
  • 40 manufacturing facilities nationwide Contact your local representative to find out if your project location falls within our reach

 
 
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