Updates on Pervious Concrete Performance and Benefits

Urbanization and the growing percentage of impermeable surface areas can contribute to an increase in runoff and flooding. Pervious concrete pavement systems are technologies that might mitigate some of these problems. Pervious concrete is a material used as the structured surface layer of a permeable pavement system that allows the rainwater to pass through its structure into an aggregate storage bed below and then infiltrate into the soil below or discharge to a stormwater system. This presentation reviews research on the performance of several placements and some additional potential benefits of the use of these technologies.

Speaker:  Dr. Liv M. Haselbach
Chair and Professor: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Lamar University

Dr. Liv Haselbach has authored numerous papers on sustainability related to topics such as low impact development and carbon sequestration and is active in the sustainability education community. Dr. Haselbach is a licensed professional engineer, a LEED AP, a Fellow of ASCE and Board Certified in Environmental Engineering with the specialty of Environmental Sustainability by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists.

Prior to her academic career she founded an engineering consulting company in the New York – Connecticut area. Her degrees include a BS in Civil Engineering from Cornell with distinction, an MS in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Connecticut. She was an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, an Associate and then Full Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University, an Associate Director of the USDOT Tier 1 UTC: Center for Environmentally Sustainable Transportation in Cold Climates (CESTiCC) and a Fulbright-ALCOA Distinguished Chair in the Environmental Sciences and Engineering in Brazil. She is currently the chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lamar University. In 2019 she was named Engineer of the Year by the Sabine Chapter of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers.

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