The Benefits of Composite Walkways To Infrastructure

Composite walkways are becoming an increasingly significant feature of the infrastructure in today’s urban areas because composite materials allow cities to build better walkways for their citizens, while still keeping construction and maintenance costs low.

How Composite Walkways Benefit City Infrastructure

For decades now, the primary consideration when building additions to a city’s infrastructure, such as bridges and roads, has been the automobile.

However, in the last few years, city planners have begun to take into consideration their citizens that walk or ride a bicycle rather than driving a car.

This shift in perspective has led to an increase in the number of walking and bike paths that are being constructed in urban areas. Composite materials are helping to make these structures more economical and safe for the cities building them and for the pedestrians using them.

Composite Walkways Provide Benefits for Urban Area Walking Path Infrastructure

Several problems can arise for city planners when they’re considering adding more walking and bike paths to a city’s infrastructure.

One issue is that in order to include newer pedestrian walkways on existing bridge structures city planners must keep the weight of the proposed walkway in mind.

Adding new walkways to existing bridges with more traditional methods like concrete or steel isn’t possible in many cases because these materials have severe penalties in weight which many current bridge structures can’t support. 

On the other hand, composite walkways give planners the flexibility to create unique and light-weight structures that won’t overburden the existing bridge structure, and this means that planners may be able to consider constructing composite walkways in places they’ve never considered building walkways before.

Composite walkways can bring benefits to the walking path network of a city that include:

• The ability to be prefabricated, which reduces construction times and cost
• Being up to 80% lighter than traditional concrete and steel walkways
• Having superior corrosion resistance to water and airborne chemicals
• Providing a longer service life with lower maintenance costs than other walkway materials

By taking advantage of these benefits of composite walkways, city planners may be able to build pedestrian walkways and bike paths at lower costs, which can actually lead to more money being available for such structures in the future. 

Composites One Is the Leading Composite Materials Distributor in the U. S. and Canada

If your company is involved in making composite walkway materials for urban infrastructure applications, then you’ll need a reliable and high-quality source of composite supplies. 

The team at Composites One has just the sort of supplies that you need to build your composite walkways.

We can assist you in selecting from our more than 2,000 composite supply items from more than 600 suppliers, and with our 41 locations across the United States and Canada, you’ll be able to find a location that is conveniently close to your business.

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