This eco-friendly material is highly porous and less reflective of the sun, meaning it absorbs water faster and helps lower ...

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 ...

Interest in pervious concrete continues to grow in the Midwest as specifiers learn more about its properties and benefits. "I get at least two or three calls every week on potential pervious 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 ...

"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 ...

There's a little demonstration Stew Waller enjoys running whenever he gets a chance to demonstrate pervious concrete to a group that's unfamiliar with the product. "Anytime we start a new job, we have ...

When property is developed, pavements and building roofs decrease the rainfall infiltration into the soil and increase the quantity of stormwater runoff. The rain that previously soaked into the ...

Homeowners love concrete, for both interior and exterior use. Outdoors, large expanses of concrete can create environmental problems, though, as they block stormwater from draining off into the soil.

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I live in Madison, Wis., and yesterday we (or shall I say "Mother Nature") broke the all-time record for annual snowfall. So far this year Madison has seen 77.3 inches of snow (I do not have a ...

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 ...