Look around. Pavement is everywhere. It covers much of what we drive and walk on, including roads, parking lots, sidewalks and pedestrian paths. It’s also impervious, for the most part. That means ...

Pavements occupy twice the surface area of buildings in the U.S. In urban watersheds they produce two-thirds of excess runoff and are responsible for essentially all the runoff pollution and ...

The use of porous pavement surfaces for parking lots, driveways, alleys, and footpaths as an effective best management practice to control stormwater runoff has been growing at a double digit rate in ...

New York City is installing its first large-scale porous pavement installation along seven miles of roadway in Brooklyn. The project will keep 35 million gallons of stormwater out of the combined ...

The environmental and financial benefits of pervious concrete for paving commercial parking lots have long been recognized in the warmer climates of the United States. But as pervious concrete makes ...

When the Humane Society of Elkhart, IN, decided to construct almost 6,000 sq. ft. of eight new outdoor play and exercise areas for dogs waiting for adoption, they wanted a material that was easy to ...

Holes in porous pavement can get clogged with debris. Worcester uses porous pavement on some parking lots at parks. Porous pavement is 10% to 20% more expensive than traditional asphalt. (Correction: ...