Block pavement binds ­pollutants

At the very latest, the heavy rain events that occurred at the end of the summer made it evident that an increasing number of the municipal sewerage systems was no longer able to drain the resulting...

Progressive soil sealing combined with an increasing occurrence of heavy rainfall events represents an enormous challenge for urban drainage. In addition, a significant proportion of the pollution of...

When a new housing area is developed in Germany, the roads often initially consist of loose crushed rock and are mostly completed only after a major part of the building construction works has been...

South of Asse II, an abandoned salt mine now used for storing low- to medium-level nuclear waste in the district of Wolfenbüttel in the German state of Lower Saxony, a rainwater retention basin was...

In particular, pipelines running beneath the taking off and landing runways are exposed to transient extreme pressure impulses caused by aircraft movements, which may soon result in a pipeline break...