The large-scale development of "breathable surfaces" is an important method to alleviate the heat island effect. Firstly: Green spaces, vegetation, and other soft pavements can absorb solar radiation, absorb environmental heat, and trap airborne dust, thereby lowering the environmental air temperature, weakening the greenhouse effect, and further suppressing atmospheric warming. Secondly: Hard permeable pavements for pedestrians and vehicles. Since the specific heat capacity of water is greater than that of concrete, under the same heat absorption conditions, the temperature rise of the two materials differs, creating a temperature difference that inevitably increases the circulation speed of thermal currents. In the atmospheric circulation process, urban water systems also play a secondary cooling role, which can prevent urban temperatures from becoming excessively high, thus achieving the goal of preventing urban heat island effects.
Permeable Pavement is a new type of environmentally friendly pavement, which, after proper proportioning, has a finished product pavement with about 20% porosity, allowing rain(or snow) to quickly replenish urban groundwater resources, due to its surface characteristics, it can absorb noise generated by vehicle traffic, save surface solar heat radiation, reduce surface temperature, and decrease the heat island effect, while enhancing walking comfort and safety.
Permeable Pavement can achieve:
1, reduce surface runoff
2, replenish groundwater and ensure water quality
3, improve the ecological environment
4, improve the urban thermal environment
5, reduce noise
Permeable Pavement has a color-optimized proportioning scheme, allowing designers to implement unique creative ideas, completing a separation of environmental and natural decorative styles that is difficult to achieve with conventional permeable bricks. Patterns can be designed according to environmental and functional needs, with colors differentiated for sidewalks, bike paths, public squares, outdoor parking lots, light traffic lanes, roads within parks, and central isolation zones, among others. Therefore, Permeable Pavement has a significant impact on modern cities and carries important meaning.