In this project, behaviour of different cobblestone and block paving structures with borders will be compared. Practical experience shows that present traffic loads and cleaning methods may partly cause problems with cobblestone paving and block paving surface course.

The goals of these research works are:

• Investigation during the four seasons of the behaviour under heavy traffic of different structures of cobblestones and block paving (materials, stone sizes and pavement thicknesses) with the corresponding dilatation joints and boarder elements
• Comparison of the behaviour of the different test sections in the field of bearing capacity, deformations, and damages. Correlation between the results on test sections and real objects in practice
• Study of the long term behaviour of different kinds of dilatation joints and boarder elements
• What kind of structures are required in order to resist of traffic loads between T1 and T4
• The results and conclusions of the research works will be a basis for the actualization of the corresponding Swiss standards.

This practice oriented project will allow preventing damage of comparatively expensive creative pavements in built environment. In this way, town planers and universities will obtain more accurate basic tools for planning of objects in built environment. This will create positive long-term maintenance effects with both historical and modern creative pavements that will be optimized for modern traffic loads and cleaning methods.