Porous Concrete For Urban Pavements

Over the past few years, interest in the uses and applications of porous cement concrete for pave-ments has been growing. Its position in pavementconstruction has developed to such an extent thatit iscurrently used in places of greater importance(from shoulders to sub-bases, and even surfaces).This paper is part of the experience that the wri-ters have acquired with this material applied to ur-ban pavement surfaces for pedestrian or servicevehicles (light traffic) use.Apart from the theoretical considerations referringto the properties demanded from these pavements,there isalso a presentation of the experiments per-formed for the draining pavements to be used inthe Olympic Village of Barcelona.