How much rainwater is seeping through concrete pavers?

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...

Following the European Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) [1], on every large watershed, general guidelines were agreed with respect to a balanced and sustainable water resource management....

Since 1995, the management policy at the source of rainwater has allowed the creation of new floodplains of very high quality (like the lake in the photo below) and the emergence of „alternative“...

1 Introduction During the past few years, the visual quality of concrete block pavements has become increasingly important because driveways (see Fig. 1) and terraces are increasingly considered to be...