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A system is what gets built: the finish you see, the load it carries, the base and the method. A product is what GridMats supplies for it. Start with the three questions below: they give you a system, its installed cost per square foot and when it opens to traffic. Product prices for procurement teams follow further down.

Cell confinement is not new: it was developed with the US Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1970s and has been used worldwide since. In India, cell-filled concrete pavement is among the new technologies for rural roads under PMGSY. GridMats adds a recycled-plastic grid, tested at IIT Hyderabad and patented in India (Indian Patent 398992).

1 · Find the right GridMats system

Four questions. The answer is your design and price: the system, how it is built, the cost per sq ft and for your whole project, and when it opens. Your free estimate then prices your own site.

What are you building?
Heaviest vehicle on it every day

Gross vehicle weight. The pavement itself is designed on the axle loads from your axle survey or VDF.

How big is the site?
Finish you want to see

Your design and price

For: Truck yard or plant road · Trucks 25–28 t

Recommended designS1 · Cement-treated gravel

OC-HD 40 grid on 20–30 mm bedding over a compacted base and a geotextile separation layer, filled with 6–12 mm chips treated with 4–6% cement and brushed flush; kerb or edge restraint on both sides.

Installed cost*₹130–177 / sq ft(₹1,400–1,900 / m²)
Your project*₹42–57 lakhfor about 3,000 m² (32,292 sq ft)
Opens to traffic3 days · 7 dayslight vehicles · trucks, once the 7-day cubes reach 2 MPa

Product: OC-HD 40 at ₹84–107/sq ft (₹900–1,150/m²) by order size, ex-works, ex-GST.

Also fits: S2 Stone chip, gravel, pebble

Get my free estimateAbout S1

*Indicative, from completed sites and our cost sheets. Your free estimate prices your own site from its area, soil, rainfall and levels. The geotextile separation layer is a separate BoQ item, not included.

2 · Installed cost and time, system by system

Installed ranges from completed sites and our cost sheets, with the time to traffic. Every site is designed and priced from its own survey.

SystemInstalled cost, indicative*Opens to trafficHeaviest vehicleFinishProduct supplied
S1 Cement-treated gravel lead₹130–177/sq ft (₹1,400–1,900/m²)Light vehicles at 3 days; trucks at 7, once the cubes reach 2 MPaVehicles up to 49 t grossHard grey, dust-freeOC-HD 40 (trucks) or OC-LW 40 (lighter traffic)
S2 Stone chip, gravel, pebble₹130–177/sq ft (₹1,400–1,900/m²)Same dayCars to trucksNatural stone, permeableOC-HD 40 or OC-LW 40; the 30 mm grid for paths and campus roads
S3 Grass and soil₹125–167/sq ft (₹1,350–1,800/m²)At once on foot; vehicles in 4–6 weeksCars; fire-lane access on a designed baseGreenGrass paver 30 mm (cars), 20 mm (walkways) or OC-LW 40
S4 Honeycomb-finish concreteOn request, priced per site; materials ₹214–265/sq ft (₹2,300–2,850/m²) on our cost sheetsTraffic at 7 days; full traffic at 14 days; full load at 28 daysTrucks up to 49 t grossConcrete, visible hexagonOC-HD 40 + concrete
S5 Grid at the GSB/WMM interfaceDesign-specificYour contractor's asphalt programmeBy designAsphaltOC-LW 40 (OC-HD 40 for the heaviest)
S6 Temporary roads and surfaces₹181–204/sq ft (₹1,950–2,200/m²) for the mats, reused site after site; ground levelling and a geotextile onlySame day; lifted and reusedSite traffic, crane padsTop-covered mats, in colourTC mats, Heavy Duty or Light Weight

*Installed cost varies with local material availability, labour, transport, base design and site conditions; every site is priced from its own design. The geotextile separation layer is a separate BoQ item, not included. For comparison, an IRC:58 concrete road runs ₹269–297 per sq ft (₹2,900–3,200 per m²) on our cost sheets and needs about 28 days of curing before full load. Heaviest vehicle is the gross weight; the pavement is designed on the axle loads from your axle survey or VDF. Product prices for procurement are in section 3.

Defect liability: 1 year (DLP), our standard practice. After the training visit, your team shares project status updates (photographs, test reports, and any roadblocks or challenges) at each hold point and at the intervals set in the project agreement; the DLP applies only when these updates have been shared.

What we do not do. We never put the grid under a concrete slab. Concrete is offered only as the flush-filled honeycomb finish (S4), on request, built by a contractor team we train.

3 · Products for procurement

For buyers ordering the grid itself: sizes, lab tests and the price by order size. Most projects start from the installed system cost above. On a project quote the product rate also carries the training of your contractor’s team, so there is one PO. Datasheets are under Resources.

The GridMats range: OC-HD 40 and OC-LW 40 with stone, laterite and soil fills
Two OC-HD 40 panels propped together: the hexagonal cells and the perforated base

Every product ships with its dimensions, mass, material (100% post-consumer polypropylene for the grids), certificates (GreenPro, patent 398992, PCT WO2023/100191), load tests with the laboratory named, pack size and the lead time confirmed with each purchase order. Terms: 100% advance with the order, GST 18% extra, transport at cost.

GP-30 grass paver, 30 mm: small octagonal cells
GP-30, 30 mm: grass for cars and fire-lane access on a base we design; gravel for paths and campus roads, as at Garden City University.
GP-20 grass paver, 20 mm: small diamond cells
GP-20, 20 mm: walkways and lawns.
ProductSize · massLab load test on the panelUsed inPrice by order size, ex-GST ex-freight
OC-HD 40459 × 558 × 40 mm · 1.7 kg (6.6 kg/m²)170 t/m² empty (latest test report) · filled: about 320 t/m² with cold asphalt, 3,200–4,000 t/m² with M25 concrete at 5 days (Stedrant, 2021)S1, S2, S4, S5 heavy₹84–107/sq ft (₹900–1,150/m²)
OC-LW 40500 × 500 × 40 mm · ~4 kg/m²105 / 200 t/m² empty / filled, in-house; third-party test due Q4 2026S1 lighter traffic, S2 cars, S3 soil, S5₹51–64/sq ft (₹550–690/m²)
Grass paver 30 / 20 mm250 × 250 × 30 mm · ~3 kg/m²Third-party load test pendingS3; the 30 mm grid also with gravel for paths and campus roads (S2)₹40–46/sq ft (₹430–495/m²) (30 mm)
₹34–39/sq ft (₹370–420/m²) (20 mm)
TC mats
Heavy Duty · Light Weight
1000 × 500 × 50 mm · about 6.5 kgCrane test, GE wind siteS6 temporary roads and surfaces, crane pads₹181–204/sq ft (₹1,950–2,200/m²)
AccessoriesU-nails 8 mm, 175 × 100 × 175 mm · geotextile 125–200 gsm on request, a separate BoQ item, not in the system rates—All systems₹5–10 each · ₹4/sq ft (₹40/m²)

Load tests are laboratory compression tests on a single panel. They compare panels; the capacity of a pavement comes from the base designed for its traffic and soil.

Product prices by order size

₹ per m², ₹ per sq ft below · ex-works, ex-GST, ex-freight

ProductUnder 1,000 m²
under 10,800 sq ft
1,000–2,500 m²
10,800–26,900 sq ft
2,500–5,000 m²
26,900–53,800 sq ft
5,000–25,000 m²
53,800 sq ft–2.7 lakh sq ft
Over 25,000 m² or annual rate contract
over 2.7 lakh sq ft
OC-HD 401,150
₹107/sq ft
990
₹92/sq ft
960
₹89/sq ft
935
₹87/sq ft
900
₹84/sq ft
OC-LW 40690
₹64/sq ft
650
₹60/sq ft
620
₹58/sq ft
590
₹55/sq ft
550
₹51/sq ft
Grass paver 30 mm495
₹46/sq ft
470
₹44/sq ft
455
₹42/sq ft
440
₹41/sq ft
430
₹40/sq ft
Grass paver 20 mm420
₹39/sq ft
400
₹37/sq ft
390
₹36/sq ft
380
₹35/sq ft
370
₹34/sq ft
TC mats2,200
₹204/sq ft
2,100
₹195/sq ft
2,050
₹190/sq ft
2,000
₹186/sq ft
1,950
₹181/sq ft

The ladder is the base product price. On a project quote, the on-site training of your contractor’s team is built into the product rate: one PO. Online training is at no extra cost. The tier is set by the square metres on one purchase order. A 12-month rate contract for a group, a park or a repeat buyer is priced in the last column whatever the size of each call-off. Prices ex-works Bengaluru; GST 18% and freight extra.

Several sites a year? On an annual rate contract every call-off is priced in the last column, whatever its size, for 10,000 m² or ₹1 crore a year. Eight orders of 1,250 m² of OC-HD 40: ₹99.0 lakh priced per order, ₹90.0 lakh on the contract. Annual rate contract →

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4 · Beyond the grid

Solar Walkway, sensors, a living wall, pallets, and MLP boards for shuttering, cabins, toilets and furniture, from the same recycled-plastic know-how.

Tested, patented, in service

The numbers engineers ask for first

170 t/m²lab compression test on the empty OC-HD 40 panel (latest test report); 3,200–4,000 t/m² filled with M25 concrete, Stedrant
2.0×base modulus improvement at IIT Hyderabad, CBR 5%
32 sites · 12 states7 years · channel partners in 5 countries
Patent 398992GreenPro certified · 100% recycled polypropylene

What 1,000 m² of GridMats road puts in your ESG report

6.6 tpost-consumer plastic reused (OC-HD)
≈ 68 t CO₂eless than a conventional concrete road, for concrete-filled GridMats (S4); LCA by Smarter Dharma, 23.8 against 92.1 kg per m²
≈ 870 m³ / yrrain returned to the ground by a permeable surface at Bengaluru rainfall
0 °C · 0 litresno heated mix, no curing water on S2 and S3

Indicative; every handover file reports the numbers for the client's own site.

What would your road or yard cost on GridMats?

A free indicative estimate in about a minute. Our engineers follow with the design and the bill of quantities.

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Buying for several sites? One rate for 12 months: the annual rate contract →