Sustainability
Portuguese pavement helps to beautify and dignify public spaces in an environmentally sustainable way. It uses a natural raw material, primarily limestone, which is extracted from very shallow layers, allowing for rapid renaturalisation of the land, with minimal environmental and visual impact. When properly executed, it is a long-lasting pavement that is easily repairable, provided there are skilled professionals to carry out the work. Moreover, the raw material is always reusable.
The installation of Portuguese cobblestone pavement is non-polluting and permeable, allowing the soil to breathe, with a lower ecological footprint compared to other solutions. Being flexible, it is the pavement best suited to accommodate the shaping that, over time, the roots of trees and shrubs will create.
It is an ideal pavement, especially for areas of gathering and centrality, particularly suited for use in a square or public garden that is intended to be enhanced artistically.
It is a pavement that, when applied to a given surface using the appropriate techniques, ensures a specific texture on the surfaces, with small stones scattering solar reflection and heat, while maintaining the necessary soil permeability, providing a certain level of soil moisture and thus greater coolness compared to more uniform surfaces. In the event of heavy rainfall, the characteristic irregularities and fissures of this type of pavement, along with its porosity when properly executed, slow down the flow of water, allowing part of it to infiltrate the ground. In times of great environmental urgency and emergency, and reinforcing the theme of sustainability, Portuguese pavement is arguably the type of pavement that best safeguards the future.
Moreover, Portuguese pavement, and from an environmental perspective this is also significant, brings aesthetic beauty to spaces, creating harmony and tranquillity. At this level as well, it is flexible, as it can adapt to all kinds of artistic expressions and thus contribute to enriching the imagination of passers-by, conveying messages, telling stories and inspiring dreams.