Sustainable Drainage Practices in Spain, Specially Focused on Pervious Pavements

Sustainable Drainage Practices in Spain, Specially Focused on Pervious Pavements

The Spanish climate is full of contrasts, with torrential rains and long droughts; under these conditions, appropriate water management is essential. In Spain, until the end of the twentieth century, water management and legislative development lagged behind other more developed countries. Nowadays, great efforts are being made to reverse this situation and improve both water management and leg...

Recycling waste latex paint in overlays, rigid pavements, and pervious concrete

A fuzzy stochastic multi-criteria model for the selection of urban pervious pavements

Multi-criteria decision making methods (MCDM) have been widely used throughout the last years to assist project contractors in selection processes related to the construction field. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are an especially suitable discipline to implement these techniques, since they involve important impacts on each branch of sustainability: economy, environment and society....

Protecting groundwater with oil - retaining pervious pavements : historical perspectives , limitations and recent developments 1 T ?

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Sustainable Drainage Systems

Urban water management has somewhat changed since the publication of The Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) Manual in 2007 [1], transforming from building traditional sewers to implementing SuDS, which are part of the best management practice techniques used in the USA and seen as contributing to water-sensitive urban design in Australia. Most SuDS, such as infiltration trenches, swales, green ...