Heinrich Niemeier GmbH & Co. KG

Block pavement binds ­pollutants

In times of climate change and increasing frequency of heavy rain events, rainwater management plays a more and more significant role. The solution for a new housing estate in Berlin-Zehlendorf is a good example. The “Seydyard” new-build project currently under development is a joint project of the BerlinerVolksbank and the BBT Group. By the end of 2014, a housing ensemble of 40 town houses, interspersed with private gardens and beautiful community green spaces, was erected on the site of a former railroad yard covering an area of more than 1.000 m2.

 

Specification:
local infiltration

Rainwater...

Related articles:

Issue 09/2022 ADOLF BLATT

Stuttgart Sickerstein pavers for the “sponge city”

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...

more
Issue 02/2018 Decentralized rainwater treatment plants

Technologies and testing procedures

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...

more
Issue 11/2023 ADOLF BLATT

Alleenfeld newbuild housing development paved with Stuttgarter Sickerstein

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...

more
Issue 01/2015 Berding Beton

Rainwater retention basin of rectangular concrete pipes

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...

more
Issue 11/2012 Berding Beton

Safe landing due to heavy-duty pipes

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...

more