Florida DOT Approves Concrete Pavers for Low-Speed Streets

Thanks to joint efforts by an ICPI member and ICPI technical staff, the Florida Department of Transportation Specification 526 on Architectural Pavers now allows their use in local side streets with posted speed limits of 35 mph or lower. Previous FDOT specifications prohibited their use in such applications. Florida’s concrete paver market is estimated at well over 100 million sf, much of which goes to residential applications, private commercial projects and municipal sidewalks. This FDOT revision opens the door to wider use of interlocking concrete pavements and permeable interlocking concrete pavements by FDOT and municipalities in publicly owned streets.

Photo Caption: FDOT ICP approval moves concrete pavers from private roads like this one in 2007 to the much bigger market of publicly owned, low-speed streets.