Welcome towards my PMC Chunk Challenge: Solo Build Contest #4 entry: Street Section Cut Out.

For a long time I toyed with the idea to make a basic road on a scale of 5:1 with here and there a cut-out to show people what is lying underneath your road. This is based upon an European Country, not the leaving UK.

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What lies underneath the street?
Sewer pipes:
- Mixed system, household + rainwater
- Separated system, one pipe for household and one for rainwater
- Decoupled, one pipe for household and rainwater infiltrates the ground
- Pressure pipes to transport sewer water towards the water purification plant
Info:
These pipes lie in general underneath asphalt in a bed of sand. No other cables should lie alongside. The average life cycle can be +50 years.

Gas pipes:
- Low pressure for house-holdings
- Mid pressure to transport to central points for further distribution
- High pressure for transport, the ones who dig without permission are doomed.
info:
Mid and High pressure gas pipes are often marked with little (yellow in my country) post-signs not higher than ~0,3m with information about what it transports and such. Country wide transport are marked by ~1,5m post-signs and are checked regularly with helicopters to check if nobody is stupid enough to dig near it. Besides the signposts, they have a warning tape lying above them in the ground, warning diggers to do it carefully.

Electric cables:
- Household cables
- Mid level voltage cables
- High voltage cables; above and below the ground transport
info:
High voltage cables above the ground are cooled by air and underground, often only in city's, by the groundwater. This could give troubles with deep situated groundwater.

Data cables:
Multiple cables often lie in the ground from different operators. These vary in type: coax, glass fibre or other. In terms of depth these lie often the highest or rather you come across them first if you start digging.

What "is" the street you see made of?
Asphalt:
- Surface layer; finest & expansive layer.
- Bind layer; connects the surface with the base layers.
- Base layers; cheapest but the most done rolled asphalt.
- Foundation layer; broken bricks or broken concrete for example.
- Soil layer; in general a layer of sand.
Info:
Technically full, true bright coloured asphalt is confirm classifications of the EU not asphalt. This comes forth out the use of a different bind/connect component.

"Drain" system:
- Gutter tiles; transport water & servers as buffer against the expendable asphalt in warm weather.
- Sewer gully's; collecting the fallen water on the road to either infiltrate it or send it away.
Info:
This is the most general used drain system in city like environments. Different systems exists, such as bricks that let water run through them or simply let it flow into the bank.

Pedestrian side walk:
- Tiles, 0,30x0,30m standard format in half stone array.
- Tiles, 0,30x0,60m non standard format.
- Soil layer; again a general layer of sand, lesser thick than the asphalt one.
Info:
Without proper maintaining, the parts that are walked upon regular & often grows far slower weeds. Parts that are not walked upon or not often enough, weeds grow more easily.

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Other info:
- Render made with__: Chunky
- Pictures edited with_: Gimp
- No redistribution WITH download link, link instead back to this page to download from.

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