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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

As mentioned, permeable pavements eliminate impervious areas in a watershed, without sacrificing road and parking space. The permeable pavement itself is only the top layer of a larger permeable ...

The GEOWEB® 3D Confinement System creates a permeable pavement capable of supporting vehicular loads over non-load-supporting soils and functions as a stormwater retention system. Confines granular ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...