A completed section of path shows the color and smoothness of the finish. Water percolates through the pavement into the ground, where it is returned to the water table naturally. A new kind of ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Correction: Porous pavement is on sections of Interstate 190 in Sterling. An earlier version of this story had an incorrect location.) Look around. Pavement is everywhere. It covers much of what we ...

A 14,000-sq-ft installation of a proprietary paving material that was combined with recycled rubber tires wrapped up last month at Yellowstone National Park, marking the largest undertaking of its ...

The concrete oozed rather than poured out of the mixer truck, almost as if reluctant to cover the ground — partly because it won’t, entirely. Laborers shoveled pebbly gobs around to form a new ...

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 ...

DEAR TIM: I recently saw a new paving system that I thought was ingenious. Instead of a solid driveway there were two strips of some precast concrete, each about 2-feet wide for the car tires. Grass ...

Porous glass materials represent a versatile class of engineered substances characterised by a network of interconnected pores. These materials display a range of properties that can be precisely ...

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: ...