BRETT LANDSCAPING
SILEBY ROAD
BARROW UPON SOAR
LEICESTERSHIRE LE12 8LX
Tel: 0345 60 80 577
Fax: 0345 60 80 575
Suppliers of: Block Paving, Flag Paving, Porcelain Tiles, Paving Pedestals, Concrete Paving Slabs, Kerbs, Landscaping Products, Patio Paving, Driveway Block Paving, Cobbles, Setts, Flagstones, Permeable Paving
Brett Landscaping - At Brett, we are modern in our thinking. We’re a trusted and established independent business, anticipating your project requirements, being proactive and have integrity in everything we do. We don’t just manufacture products, we help create outside experiences. And our priority is to do it responsibly, sourcing materials from sustainable resources, whilst also being compliant with the most current legislation on sustainability and the impact on the environment. It’s a time of great change; our built environments, including suburban developments, need clever thinking to enable planning authorisation, which can affect designs and aspirations, such as important consideration towards surface water run-off and consequential flooding challenges.
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Block Paving: Click here to view our range
Our block paving products are designed to stand the test of time, able to withstand wear and tear and the changing seasons. Whether it’s the pressure of vehicles passing over it time and time again, or the harsh elements of rain, snow and heat, block paving can offer durability where it’s needed most. Our block paving is British standard complaint, manufactured to high standards and is easy to specify. Sustainable block paving is scalable to suit any commercial project, suiting any size or shape of the area you intend to be paved.
Brett Landscaping aims to provide practical and durable products for use in all types of landscaping projects, from residential and domestic developments to large-scale commercial usage. Our product range features a variety of materials including porcelain, natural stone, and concrete, giving you the ability to choose between a selection of flexible and versatile materials whilst working. This allows you to provide your projects with the highest quality paving and landscaping, with the ability to tailor products for the best results each and every time. With Brett Landscaping’s product range, you’re sure to be able to create exceptional projects that your customers will adore.
Flag Paving: Click here to view our range
Flag paving is one of the most versatile styles for urban and commercial hardscaped areas both big and small, thanks to its ease of specification. With a recognisable and attractive appearance due to its textured ground finish, flag paving offers versatility and durability with a great choice of sizes, styles and colours to achieve a professional look for your commercial project. Our flag paving products are British standard compliant.
Our product range features a variety of materials including porcelain, natural stone, and concrete, giving you the ability to choose between a selection of flexible and versatile materials whilst working. This allows you to provide your projects with the highest quality paving and landscaping, with the ability to tailor products for the best results each and every time.
Kerbs and Channels: Click here to view our range
Our collection of durable kerbs and channels are an ideal solution for completing your commercial paving project. Adding the finishing touch with a quality, professional appearance, our kerb products can complement our range of paving products. What’s more, our kerb products are British standard compliant.
Brett Landscaping aims to provide practical and durable products for use in all types of landscaping projects, from residential and domestic developments to large-scale commercial usage. Our product range features a variety of materials including porcelain, natural stone, and concrete, giving you the ability to choose between a selection of flexible and versatile materials whilst working. This allows you to provide your projects with the highest quality paving and landscaping, with the ability to tailor products for the best results each and every time.
Permeable Paving: Click here to view our range
Permeable paving is an eco-friendly, sustainable and durable solution for protecting your commercial area from flooding or pooling water, by providing a sustainable water drainage system. Our permeable paving allows water to soak through the surface, releasing it into the ground. In recent years, poor water management has led to flooding of businesses, which can now be avoided.
Our Brett concrete permeable paving has been designed to achieve a high permeability, while enhancing the structural integrity of the surface. With modular paving blocks and an interlocking spacer nib, there is the correct joint spacing for efficient water flow. This works for projects big or small. Our three sustainable permeable paving collections have a range of integrated accessories and products, including kerbs, chippings and circles.
Trief and Kassel Kerbs: Click here to view our range
For specialised solutions when it comes to kerb applications, our range of Trief and Kassel kerbs are a major advance in road safety and public transport access. Kassel kerbs offer a solution for bus docking, providing a reduced gap between the pavement and bus platform. Creating a safer and easier environment for public transport access, Kassel kerbs can provide wheelchair and pushchair access, and are British standard compliant.
With 160mm and 180mm standard Kassel kerbs available, alongside a new slimline 140mm offering, the profile of the kerb can minimise tyre wear. There is also a slimline version, providing a retro-fit application for integrating the product into existing kerb configurations to minimise time and cost. Our Kassel Diamond paving provides an additional option for LED ground lighting to be installed for enhanced bus stop safety.
Dreen® Pedestal & Paving System: Click here to view our range
The Dreen® Fixed Plate pedestal system has been used throughout Europe for over 40 years, delivering a cost-effective and robust solution for paved rooftop spaces. Together, the Dreen® pedestal system and Dreen® paving slabs can create a solution suitable for a number of different applications, such as recreational spaces and service areas.
Dreen® slabs have been specifically manufactured for use with rooftop pedestals, in particular the Dreen® Fixed Plate pedestal system. Combining low weight and high load-bearing capacity, the system allows for paving flags with interlocking corners. In turn, this eliminates horizontal movement while enabling sufficient water drainage.
Porcelain Paving: Click here to view our range
Porcelain paving from Brett Landscaping has become a popular choice amongst contractors and installers thanks to its ease of installation and contemporary style. Our porcelain range has been manufactured to the highest standards, designed from a mixture of clay, sand and other minerals to retain a natural and durable build. With a variety of colours, textures and finishes, porcelain paving is a stylish choice that can be used to complete any outdoor space and can even be used inside.
Choose from timeless designs in the style of natural sandstone, slate, stone and timber to create stunning patio installations. Our porcelain paving is precision cut after processing, ensuring the finest tolerances. The porcelain range has a number of properties that make it a go-to choice for many designers, architects and contractors, including scratch-resistant, stain-resistant and complete with a slip-resistant surface.
Rooftop Pedestal Paving: Click here to view our range
We can provide a system of pedestal types that hold different types of paving, specifically for rooftops of commercial buildings. This can be instrumental in helping to create leisure and hospitality spaces, retail space, recreational areas and more, making the most of rooftop spaces.
Rooftop pedestal systems from Brett Landscaping are height-adjustable and allow for fast, easy installation with no risk of the paving slipping. Enabling a larger support area compared to other systems on the market, our pedestal systems can effectively spread the load of the paving to reduce the risk of breakage. With some systems unique to Brett Landscaping in the UK, discover outstanding design flexibility with a wide range of compatible paving products.
Further technical information is available on the Brett Landscaping website or via the Bpi download Library.
Introducing Invicta Block Paving, the brand-new innovative product Brett Landcaping
While certain landscaping trends may come and go, one certainty is that longevity and performance will always be valued highly within the commercial sector. Block paving products that can pair these functional attributes with a unique aesthetic are not common, yet Brett’s Invicta Block Paving Range has managed just that for a variety of commercial applications.
High Performance Functionality
As well as seeking the right aesthetic and design, specifiers require hard-wearing functionality that will be geared for the future; particularly concerning streetscapes and other urban environments. Brett’s Invicta Block Paving features a pioneering AggTech surface layer to create a high-performance product, suitable for pedestrian and commercial traffic. Using a combination of specially sourced aggregates, the unique AggTech surface layer is as durable as it is attractive, being perfect for various commercial applications.
Versatility and Scope
Premium quality block paving that can accommodate a range of different sizes will always be highly sought after, offering increased scope for different commercial developments. Versatility is a particularly important factor when considering the design of more ambitious projects, including those in retail spaces, plazas, tech parks or other innovative commercial landscapes.
Along with asymmetrical designs becoming more prevalent in forward thinking commercial sectors, it helps to have added flexibility with your hard materials. Invicta Block Paving products offer a range of new plan sizes, empowering architects to meet a wider scope of requirements – especially amongst diverse streetscapes.
A Unique Aesthetic
Of course, it goes without saying that specifiers want to choose paving products that not only have first-class performance, but also first-class aesthetics. No matter their specific field, specifiers and architects alike want to build urban environments that will uplift people and stand the test of time, leaving a lasting legacy for their work. Although many urban designs continue to be influenced by clean, minimalistic motifs, it is still worth considering special materials that have a unique design aesthetic amongst the sea of grey.
For example, the premium aggregate composition found in Brett’s AggTech gives paving a unique and contemporary finish, with a subtle sparkle that distinguishes it from other concrete block paving products. Complimenting this, the gentler wash process used on Invicta Block Paving exposes the aggregate in a softer way, allowing the natural materials to really shine through, while also remaining colour fastness. The colour composition of the paving itself is still bold and distinctive though, thanks to its higher pigment ratio and premium aggregates. Altogether, these qualities offer exciting opportunities to accentuate certain design features of an installation.
Sustainability
As well as the qualities mentioned above, another future consideration for block paving is the ability to accommodate sustainable drainage systems, with urban flooding still being a significant issue that demands attention. Permeable paving has increasingly been lauded as a cost-effective method of attenuating and filtering surface water, and is available amongst various Brett paving products. The Invicta Block Paving Range also includes a permeable solution, with the Invicta Flow option; this features a unique nib design for even more efficient, sustainable drainage.
For architects and specifiers looking to create vibrant outdoor spaces that will inspire people and uplift an area’s surroundings, Brett’s Invicta Paving Range will help you achieve your design aspirations. What’s more, you can do so knowing that your product has the technology and sustainability credentials to leave a real lasting legacy.
For further information and product enquiries about the brand-new Invicta Block Paving Range, be sure to contact technical support today!
Brett Landscaping - Seasonal Winter Advice for Public Spaces
Delivering high performance paving installations that will last the winter is a crucial part of creating spaces that offer the best for the public. With retail, leisure and office space making up most of our cities, having the right paving that combines functionality with aesthetics is the key to long-lasting commercial space that meets the demands of modern day life.
At Brett Landscaping we’re able to assist those working in the commercial sector deliver paving styles that uplift a diverse array of streetscapes and public spaces, particularly when it comes to the considerations surrounding winter weather conditions.
What to consider when designing public spaces
From colour and finish to practicalities, there are a lot of things to think about when choosing a paving product for a commercial project. Being able to provide both functionality and aesthetics can be incredibly important for a space that will be used to attract customers and footfall to a particular area.
Longevity
Paving styles for public spaces must be created with longevity in mind, particularly when it comes to the winter months. With many public spaces being used frequently and by large numbers of people and vehicles, it’s important that paving options are available to deliver added durability.
Paving installations created with this in mind may benefit from a design that’s easier to maintain in the long run, which reduces disruption to the public with less need to repair and renovate.
Practicality
Public spaces need to be highly accessible, simple to navigate and have a natural and seamless design in order for people to use the area with ease. Commercial spaces should be designed with safety in mind too, offering a high level of functionality even in wet and cold conditions.
Qualities like slip-resistance and frost-resistance should be carefully considered if public spaces are to be utilised to their full potential all year round.
Aesthetics
General appearance and aesthetics are just as important as functionality when it comes to public spaces, as any space used by the local community should be presentable and tidy. This builds a good impression of the area and ensures all who use it have a positive experience.
However, the aesthetics also refers to the colour and finish of the paving. The choice of colour can have a great impact on the finished look. Considering warming and welcoming colours, such as autumnal shades of golden yellow or orange, can work all year round for a timeless design.
Achieving a paving design that is both functional and attractive
With those attributes in mind, our Invicta paving is a strong choice for commercial applications, particularly in regards to the winter weather, with good technical attributes that don’t compromise on the aesthetics. Invicta is created using an AggTech surface layer for high performance, offering a solution that is hard wearing but attractive. This is particularly important during wet weather, allowing for a paving design that can withstand the elements. Its suitability for pedestrian and commercial traffic means it can meet a diverse range of requirements, without creating safety hazards.
The subtle sparkle of Invicta paving distinguishes it from other concrete block paving products, with a higher pigment ratio. What’s more, Invicta is available in a permeable solution in order to accommodate sustainable drainage systems for an even more efficient design throughout the year.
For an alternative choice, Lugano paving can also offer the technical performance needed for urban design projects. Designed with a varying texture and the look and feel of natural granite, Lugano comes with a high level of slip resistance to ensure its suitability for commercial areas. Having paving that is slip-resistant is of paramount importance for the winter months, when paving can typically become more slippery due to wet and cold weather. In an area where there may be high foot traffic, such as commercial spaces, being able to protect pedestrians through a suitable design of paving can make a huge difference to the overall functionality and safety.
This style also comes in a permeable paving solution, with a unique nib design and traditional paving colours of both light and dark grey.
