Executive Director of the Connecticut Concrete Promotion Council (CCPC) Jim Langlois reports that an environmental engineering firm in his state took advantage last year of NRMCA’s Design Assistance Program for the Subway sandwich chain's  headquarters project in Milford. The firm utilized upward of 60,000 square feet of pervious concrete and has since designed at least three other projects in New York and New England that incorporated pervious concrete as the solution to their clients' stormwater management issues.

"We did a first-rate job of supporting their efforts to not only learn about pervious concrete but to design it properly," Langlois stated. The CCPC in conjunction with NRMCA Senior Director, National Resources, Doug O’Neill provided them with hardcopy literature, CDs, design assistance and even invited one of its principles to speak alongside O’Neill at a meeting last year of the Connecticut Landscape Architects Association. 

"The relationship Jim developed has fostered both trust and confidence that this technology, supported by our industry, can work and is working in the Northeast," O’Neill added.