Pervious Concrete Pavement: an overview of European experiences, EUPAVE workshop, 20/10/2021

On Wednesday 20th October 2021, EUPAVE held at Hôtel Le Châtelain in Brussels its 6th workshop on Best Practices in Concrete Paving. It was organised as a hybrid event, using a professional sound and video-system from the Dutch “Betonhuis” (“Concrete House”). The theme for this year was “Pervious Concrete Pavement: an overview of European experiences”.
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As a result of climate change, both periods of drought and extreme precipitation occur more frequently. The recent floods in Europe made us face up to the facts and stressed the importance of integrated water management. Solutions include sustainable road surfacing that is permeable to water, that can store the water in the road structure and allow it to infiltrate into the subsurface or to be slowed down and drained to a nearby infiltration facility or sewer system. Concrete offers various possibilities, both with prefabricated elements and cast in situ. With in-situ concrete, there are solutions in draining (porous) concrete and in classic concrete with drainage openings.
This workshop gave an overview of research, practical experiences and innovations in different European countries.
0:00 - Introduction
12:50 - “Pervious (lean) concrete for sustainable road pavements: first results of the Belgian Be-Drain”, Elia Boonen, Research and Technical Advisor at the Belgian Road Research Centre
41:30 - “Pervious concrete, an environmentally friendly materiel for roads: applications on construction sites in France”, Eugen Florescu, Road Projects Manager at Holcim presented
1:08:00 - “Special applications of pervious concrete in the Netherlands”, Jeroen de Vrieze, Advisor Promotion and Market Statistics at Betonhuis
1:43:00 - “A permeable grass concrete pavement: new opportunities with biodegradable formwork”, Fabrice Bonnin, Technical Manager at Via Sols
2:08:40 - “Next-generation climate change resilient permeable pavements”, Alalea Kia, Postdoctoral Researcher in Structures and Materials of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Imperial College London