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PermaTrak designs and supplies precast concrete boardwalk systems built for parks, trails, greenways, and wetlands. Durable, low-maintenance, and built to last.

PermaTrak® systems are engineered for design flexibility, ease of installation and long-term durability. Requiring virtually no maintenance, PermaTrak systems are an outstanding, cost-competitive alternative to conventional wood or manufactured lumber construction.

11/03/2026

A geotech report tells you what’s below the surface and what the soil can support. It won’t tell you what size foundation to build.

In this clip from Ask a Boardwalk Engineer, John Pyle, PE and PermaTrak engineer Kyle Stanton, PE clear up two common misconceptions about geotechnical reports on boardwalk projects.

1. The geotech engineer drills borings, tests the samples and reports the soil and rock properties. The structural engineer uses that information to design the foundation, including its type, size and depth, plus the spans for the boardwalk beams and piers.

2. There’s no single soil capacity number. What you need from the report depends on the foundation type you’re designing and the soil parameters at your site.

Knowing who’s responsible for what makes it a lot easier to catch gaps in a report before they hold up your foundation design.

The full episode on our YouTube channel walks through what to look for in a geotech report for spread footings, helical piers, drilled shafts and driven piles.

10/30/2026

These photos show why concrete beats timber in the long run.

Splintered boards, broken sections, and a structure worn down by years of weather and foot traffic. Timber can hold up for a while, but it rots, warps and splinters over time, and keeping a boardwalk like this safe takes constant maintenance.

On this project, we’re replacing more than 20 timber boardwalks like this one with PermaTrak. Our concrete boardwalks are maintenance free with a design life of 50 to 75 years.

Follow along as the project comes together.

10/08/2026

Check out some photos of one of our recently completed boardwalks on the West Ashley Bikeway in Charleston, SC. 🌿

The City of Charleston renovated this linear park with a new path, bridges and a PermaTrak concrete boardwalk, giving walkers and cyclists a durable, maintenance-free route.

10/01/2026

Beaver Ruin is coming together.

This project is being built using a top down construction method, and our partners at Strack, Inc. Construction captured some incredible footage of the process from the job site.

From staging to installation, this video gives you a real look at the scale, precision, and coordination it takes to bring a project like this to life.

A big thank you to the Strack Construction team for the partnership and for capturing it so well.

Take a look 👇

09/29/2026

A few weeks ago, our team had the pleasure of hearing Taryn Smith speak. 🎉

We gathered at Vaulted Oak Brewing and heard her story. She rowed roughly 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean with no rowing background and documented her entire journey.

When people asked her why, her answer was two words: why not?

Vaulted Oak even brewed a b**r for the night, named after the Why Not CP Foundation. We tried it more than once.

09/29/2026

Helical piers are one of the most common deep foundation solutions on boardwalk projects, but they're not the right fit for every site.

In this clip from Ask a Boardwalk Engineer, PermaTrak engineer Kyle Stanton walks through where helical piers start to lose their advantage:

-Extremely stiff soils, gravel, cobble, or shallow rock below grade can rule them out entirely.

-Tall stick-up heights, structures elevated 7 to 10 feet or more, still allow helical piers to work, but a lot of the cost advantage disappears.

-Bracing can help offset that lost economy, but at that point it's worth pricing out another foundation type for comparison.

Knowing where that line sits before design starts can save a project from paying for bracing on a foundation type that's already lost its edge.

Check out the full episode on our YouTube channel where we cover the foundation types that tend to work better once soils get stiffer or stick-up heights get taller.

09/25/2026

Beaver Ruin Wetland Park is coming together beautifully!

Big thanks to Strack, Inc. for this incredible footage of our top down construction method in action.

Take a look at the scale, the teamwork, and the process that goes into building a boardwalk like this.

09/22/2026

Top-down construction in action at Beaver Ruin Wetland Park in Gwinnett County, GA.

Instead of heavy equipment working from the ground, this boardwalk is being built from above, which means less disruption to the sensitive wetland below.

⭐ Black Creek Construction Inc. – installation
⭐ Strack, Inc. – general contractor

More footage from this site coming soon. Stay tuned.

09/22/2026

Once a boardwalk project needs a deep foundation, there's still a decision to make about which type fits the site.

In this clip from Ask a Boardwalk Engineer, PermaTrak engineer Kyle Stanton breaks deep foundations down into three categories:

-Driven piles. Steel H-piles, steel pipe piles, precast piles, timber piles, and composite piles all fall into this group.

-Drilled-in piles. For boardwalk systems, this usually means cast-in-place drilled shafts or steel micropiles.

-Helical piers. An end-bearing pile that gets torqued into the ground rather than driven or drilled.

Each of these shows up regularly on boardwalk projects, and the right one depends on soil conditions, site access, and how the loads need to get carried down to bearing capacity.

The full episode on our YouTube channel walks through when helical piers make sense over the other two, and when they don't.

09/15/2026

Two boardwalks can look nearly identical from the walking surface and still have completely different foundations underneath them.

In this clip from Ask a Boardwalk Engineer, PermaTrak engineer Kyle Stanton breaks down the three factors that actually drive that decision:

-Soil parameters. Soft, mucky organic soils call for a different foundation than stiff clay, silty sand, or shallow rock.

-Span arrangement. A 20-foot span puts different vertical and lateral loads on a foundation than a 40-foot span.

-Stick-up height. The distance from grade to the top of pile can shift which foundation system makes the most economic sense.

Miss any one of these early in the design process, and it tends to show up later as a change order, a redesign, or a foundation bid that doesn't match what the project actually needs.

The full episode gets into shallow vs. deep foundations and when helical piers make sense over other options. Link in comments.

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