Roads are essential infrastructure, but they're made with nonrenewable materials and have a significant carbon footprint, ...

One proposed method of addressing that problem involves replacing existing road surfaces – or building new ones – with what are known as permeable pavements (aka porous pavements). These ...

The extreme weather marking ten consecutive years of record heat globally have tested the resilience of the paved roads, ...

Carly Thompson, WSU These permeable pavements are more porous, allowing chemicals shed from tires to be captured by the roads rather than washed into waterways. The researchers tested the ...

Permeable pavements are used on many driveways, carparks and roads (excluding main arterial roads and motorways) and typically consist of permeable pavers laid on an upper bedding layer of between ...

Some of those roads are still in use after 2,000 years. Whether you choose to build your own projects or hire professionals, your permeable hardscape features will be truly sustainable additions ...

Making good on this vision would require nothing less than a proper remapping of this frail post-colonial zone along the ancient Grand Trunk Road that links Kabul to Chittagong over a forbidding ...

His house was spared, but flooding has been so persistent in the neighborhood in recent years that Brookhaven Town plans to raise part of Bellhaven Road and install a permeable road surface to i ...

In the past decade, road builders have increasingly installed more permeable, “spongy” roads. Pervious concrete, unlike regular concrete, usually excludes sand from the typical “gravel ...

A stretch of residential road in Far North Peoria will undergo a $10 million reconstruction that will see a unique type of permeable pavement used on a full city roadway for the first time.

“However, one of the difficulties in applying it to roads with heavy traffic is permeable concrete is not as strong as traditional concrete and cannot be reinforced,” Almeida said. Reinforced ...