The new curbs and sidewalks along Ohio Street, just west of College Avenue downtown, look like they were poured with a bad batch of concrete. The texture is that of large-curd cottage cheese. The ...
A Sutton, Mass., pavement demonstration conducted as part of an industry seminar provided designers, contractors and materials producers with important tips on using pervious concrete, a building ...
To demonstrate Beaverton's new concrete, Mark Boguslawski holds up a chunk and pours a glass of water onto it. The water doesn't run off like most concrete -- it disappears. Wait, wait, wait and it ...
When the salesman at a new residential development turned a garden hose on full force, the water disappeared into the driveway. Not one drop ran into the street, the gutter and eventually the ocean.
Every year, hundreds, maybe thousands of roads fall victim to natural disasters, be they floods, tsunamis or simply light rains that damage the structure and thus destroy everything in their way.
As stormwater runoff from streets and parking lots becomes an ever-more sensitive environmental issue, eliminating it altogether with pervious pavement can be an elegant solution. Two projects now ...
Researchers are using an unusual design to enhance the sustainability of concrete, with a carbon-absorbing material and ...
"All I know is my phone started smoldering it was ringing so much," Littlepage said. It has been more than a year, but Seven Hills may have found a partial solution to the water problems along North ...
Key market opportunities include increased adoption in smart cities, rising investments in sustainable construction, and ...
Pervious concrete -- a mix of coarse aggregate, cement, water, and little to no sand -- creates a porous, open-celled structure that allows rainwater to filter through into the ground. This concrete ...
As stormwater runoff from streets and parking lots becomes an ever-more sensitive environmental issue, eliminating it altogether with pervious pavement can be an elegant solution. Two projects now ...