Flood-Mitigating & Sustainable Rigid Pavements

Converting Risk-Driving Impervious Spaces into Resilient Assets

To achieve greater resilience, cities must turn to cost-effective and practical technologies. There is one risk driver that cities have in overabundance but could easily convert into a resilient asset: impervious spaces. Sidewalks, public realms and plazas, streets, bike lanes and park spaces make the DNA of virtually every city. Every year, municipalities budget for the maintenance and repair of impervious spaces and improve or construct new ones. Like editing the DNA to remove a genetic weakness, integrating large-scale stormwater capture under nearly every possible impervious surface can begin to convert how cities behave with water.

APPLICATIONS

Right-of-Ways

The ability of CUPOLEX® to reduce the initial construction costs of concrete road pavements makes them much more attractive economically to transportation agencies

Parking Lots

CUPOLEX® concrete cast-in-place engineered rigid pavements are designed for stormwater capture to mitigate flood risk. This design converts risk-driving impervious pavements into resilient assets and extends the life of existing water infrastructure by reducing the hydrological load.

Roads

We design CUPOLEX® concrete rigid pavements with integrated stormwater capture. The resulting product is a concrete pavement, capable of providing carrying capacities equivalent to conventional road pavements but requiring less concrete.

Roads

We design CUPOLEX® concrete rigid pavements with integrated stormwater capture. The resulting product is a concrete pavement, capable of providing carrying capacities equivalent to conventional road pavements but requiring less concrete.

Streetscapes

Transforming urban impervious pavements in areas of flood vulnerability can now be done cost-effectively with much less interruption in traffic patterns and the local economy.

Laneways

Applications include:

Residential roads
City streets
Highways
Laneways or alleyways
Sidewalks
Access roads or driveways
Bike lanes

Sidewalks

Instead of looking at sidewalks as pedestrian mobility, they can now be designed for subsurface stormwater capture, which in turn reduces and delays the disruptive effects of floods and also filters and percolates pluvial water in underground aquifers.

Permeable Pavements

CUPOLEX® stormwater capturing pavements can be designed as:

Stormwater detention
Retention
Infiltration
Harvesting systems

Customized Design Package

Design Application Analysis – Our firm helps clients determine the Engineered CUPOLEX® system solutions that address specific site needs.

Value Engineering – CUPOLEX® works with value-engineering at the forefront of each project. We provide the best alternatives for every project.

Structural Systems Evaluation – Every project is unique. Our team reviews multiple structural CUPOLEX® systems to determine the best fit for each project.

Preliminary Structural Design – We work with our clients and their designers to determine the performance of a given CUPOLEX® structure under the prescribed loads and/or other effects or requirements while using principles of statics, dynamics and mechanics of materials to determine the size and arrangement of CUPOLEX® structural elements.

Material & Cost Estimating – Our collective experience helps us to provide our clients with material recommendations to reduce costs while maintaining the function of the CUPOLEX® structure.

Engineered Design Drawings – Issued for construction (IFC) and supported with FEA structural calculations, PE stamp, construction documents and specifications.

CUPOLEX® Installation Shop Drawings – With detailed CUPOLEX® formwork installation procedures issued to contractors.

Onsite Support – Construction training, monitoring and inspections for successful construction, and we present the information in a comprehensive report.

Construction Administration – We provide responses to request for information and interpretation of CUPOLEX® design drawings, with completion statements and regulatory compliance reporting where required.