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 ...

Last year, the installation of a concrete driveway became a major spectacle in Victoria, Canada. “It was a real big thing,” said Ron Manuel, the owner of the driveway in the coastal capital city of ...

As Hurricane Joaquin and several other weather systems pounded the Eastern Seaboard, coastal communities have been faced with Biblical levels of rain. For some towns in South Carolina that meant 20 ...

The primary function of porous or permeable pavement is to allow water to run rapidly through the surface to a sub-layer, which allows general or directed drainage. Permeable asphalt and concrete are ...

Cyclists in Spokane’s Lincoln Heights and Glenrose neighborhoods may have a little bumpier ride starting next year, but at least it’ll be drier. Construction is set to begin in 2015 on what will be ...

If you drive around Wilmington looking at parking lots and sidewalks, it won’t take long to find a patch of permeable pavement. As the name suggests, permeable pavement is designed to provide a smooth ...

In 2020, Ursinus College, in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, completed construction of a new Student Commons building to better meet the needs of the college and, hopefully, serve as the leading edge of a ...

What is the difference between permeable and impermeable surfaces? Permeable surfaces (also known as porous or pervious surfaces) allow water to percolate into the ...

Huge numbers of salmon in the streams of Washington state's Puget Sound die every year due to tire pollution, but researchers may have found a way to prevent the massacre. By making pavements ...

Traditional buildings are designed to provide protection against a savage world, with us safe on one side and our waste on the other. Architects have long relied on “hard” materials such as masonry, ...