Jorge Rodriguez-Hernandez

Universidad de Cantabria | UNICAN · Department of Transportation and Projects and Processes Technology

Permeable Pavement systems (PPS) are one of the most used and studied Sustainable Drainage techniques, providing great benefits in pollutant reduction. However, the fate of filtered pollutants in these systems is still not fully considered. For these reasons this experimental work analyzed the sediments deposited over two permeable surfaces commonl...

Los sistemas de pavimento permeable son una de las técnicas de drenaje urbano sostenible mejor consideradas para la gestión sostenible de las aguas pluviales. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivos destacar y analizar las referencias internacionales y nacionales más importantes para el diseño de sistemas de pavimento permeable, llevándose a cabo...

Wildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) in many places have a significant impact on wildlife management and road safety. The COVID-19 lockdown enabled the study of the specific impact that traffic has on these events. WVC variation in the Asturias and Cantabria regions (NW of Spain) because of the COVID-19 lockdown reached a maximum reduction of −64.77%...

Polymers are widely used to improve the mechanical performance of asphalt mixtures. Among them, styrene butadiene styrene (SBS) is the most commonly used, especially in the wet modification of virgin bitumen. This method, which is extensively utilized, has several advantages, but also some disadvantages, concerning its performance (such as the risk...

New experimental polymer-modified bitumen with a high-vinyl content polymer was fabricated for porous asphalt (PA) mixtures. The bitumen with maximum stability was achieved using storage stability, gelation criteria and physical bitumen tests. A dynamic shear rheometer was used to compare the complex modulus, number of fatigue cycles, yield stress,...

This communication analyzes the latest experiences in slope and foundation drainage and runoff water management to improve resilience in roadway infrastructures. The actions resulted from temporary rain and adverse weather conditions during the months of January and February 2012 and 2013, which caused singular damage to several road slopes in Nort...

The main purpose of this article is to evaluate the correlation between the indirect tensile strength and the permeability capacity of porous concrete (PC) pavements. The compaction method employed plays a critical role in this correlation. However, even though PC pave- ments have been studied in many places around the world, using different compac...

Rockfall events are one of the most frequent types of mass wasting in mountainous areas, causing service and traffic disruption, as well as infrastructure and human damage. Hence, having accurate tools to model these hazards becomes crucial to prevent fatalities, especially in a context of Climate Change whereby the effects of these phenomena might...

Recent studies have shown that fibers improve the performance of porous asphalt mixtures. In this study, the influence of four different fibers, (a) regular aramid fiber (RegAR), (b) aramid fiber with latex coating (ARLat), (c) aramid fiber with polyurethane coating (ARPoly), (d) aramid fiber of length 12 mm (AR12) was evaluated on abrasion resista...

Citation: Andrés-Doménech, I.; Anta, J.; Perales-Momparler, S.; Rodriguez-Hernandez, J. Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems in Spain: A Diagnosis. Sustainability 2021, 13, 2791. https://doi. Abstract: Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) were almost unknown in Spain two decades ago; today, urban drainage in the country is transitioning towards...

Porous asphalt (PA) mixtures are more environmentally friendly but have lower durability than dense-graded mixtures. Additives can be incorporated into PA mixtures to enhance their mechanical strength; however, they may compromise the hydraulic characteristics, increase the total cost of pavement, and negatively affect the environment. In this pape...

Aramid fibers and glass fibers are widely used in dense-graded asphalt mixtures to improve the mechanical characteristics. However, their effect on the characteristics of porous asphalt mixtures has not been widely explored. This study evaluated the influence of aramid fiber, aramid pulp, glass-hybrid fiber, and cellulose fiber to improve the abras...

Research has been done to obtain a Porous Concrete (PC) mixture capable of bearing heavy traffic loads while maintaining sufficient air voids (AV) to percolate water into the ground. This research aims to establish several design parameters in PC mixture dosage in order to generate a multi-criteria methodology that helps to obtain a final product,...

Alternative materials to replace cement in pavements have recently been widely studied with the purpose of decreasing the environmental impacts that the construction industry generates. In this context, the implementation of sustainable urban drainage systems has grown, especially with porous pavements, with the intention to reduce water and enviro...

Porous asphalt (PA) mixtures have shown a huge range of benefits such as noise reduction, better skid resistance and mitigation of hydroplaning effect. However, due to high voids content, this mixture is prone to ravelling and clogging and therefore its service life is limited. Strong interlock between bitumen and aggregates is an important require...

Porous asphalt (PA) mixtures have shown a huge range of benefits such as noise reduction, better skid resistance and mitigation of hydroplaning effect. However, due to high voids content, this mixture is prone to ravelling and clogging and therefore its service life is limited. Strong interlock between bitumen and aggregates is an important require...

Despite the number of environmental advantages that porous concrete (PC) pavements can provide, they are mainly used in light-traffic roads, parking lots and sidewalks due to their low mechanical strength. This research focuses on the common additives employed in PC pavements, according to a literature review, with the aim of increasing their mecha...

Porous concrete (PC) pavements have gained a lot of attention in recent years because of the multiple advantages they offer to mitigate the climate change effect while giving comfort and safety to citizens. However, they are still not very often used because of the low strength they obtain due to the high air void amount they have for the infiltrat...

Despite the numerous benefits for preserving the hydrological cycle, permeable pavement systems (PPSs) found their major application in parking spots and for light traffic scenarios due to their limited durability and strength. To make the PPSs suitable for heavy traffic conditions without significant distresses, research is shifting toward the ado...

Although porous concrete pavement design methods are mainly focused on maintaining high permeability rates in order to improve their ability to manage stormwater runoff, the mixture strength is paramount for its durability and service life. This paper proposes a new mixture design method for porous concrete, named PCD (porous concrete design), deri...

Porous Concrete (PC) pavements have been gaining a lot of attention in recent years because of the many advantages they can provide, especially in urban areas because they are easy to lay and capable of mitigating the problems caused by conventional roads. For this reason, PC pavements have been recognized as one of the best solutions to reduce wat...

Flood modelling in urban areas is usually undertaken using stormwater tools, which are complex and time-consuming in terms of parametrization. To replace them, this research developed a methodology for predicting flooding probability in urban watersheds (sewersheds) through the modelling of peak flow rates from a set of watershed and sewer network-...

This document comprises the analysis of existing frameworks of sustainable drainage systems along with a multi objective analysis in order to detect the application possibilities of these systems in transport infrastructures. In order to achieve this goal, several tasks have been carried out, which are outlined below Firstly, two preliminary sectio...

Urbanisation and Climate Change are two processes altering natural hydrological patterns in catchments. Permeable pavements are a type of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) providing an opportunity to reduce the effects of both these phenomena by helping to restore the water cycle and contributing to make more resilient cities. This article...

Los accidentes de tráfico con animales silvestres son un problema creciente en muchas partes del mundo y un importante aspecto de los conflictos entre humanos y vida silvestre con incidencia en la seguridad vial y en las poblaciones animales. En este trabajo se analizan los accidentes (n= 6 377) registrados por las autoridades de carreteras y de ca...

Many cities around the world are handling many problems derived from urbanization, resulting in an uncontrolled growth of cities. Moreover, Climate Change effects are affecting all countries and specially cities. In this context, urban drainage and paving strategies demand a bigger economical investment to avoid a great impact in citizens quality o...

Urban surfaces reflect the economic, environmental and social idiosyncrasy of cities, playing a crucial role in the sustainable development of modern civilizations. Thus, the planning and efficient management of the skin of urban areas provides an opportunity to facilitate the fulfilment of the needs of present and future generations. However, ther...

Permeable Pavement Systems (PPS) have been studied from many different views, highlighting their hydrological performance. Special attention has been paid to the surface layer where Porous Mixtures and Interlocking Concrete Block Pavements (ICBP) have been the most used surfaces worldwide. However, there is a gap when analysing long-term hydrologic...

Determinación y priorización de tramos de acumulación de accidentes por fauna silvestre en Asturias Identifying and prioritizing sections of accumulation of wildlife-vehicle collisions in Asturias RESUMEN Los accidentes de tráfico con animales silvestres son un problema para la segu-ridad vial. En este trabajo, partiendo de los siniestros (n= 6.377...

Air quality in developed areas is being increasingly compromised by the effect of urbanization, which is favouring the presence of atmospheric pollutants derived from human-induced activities. Land cover change is one of the consequences most closely associated with urbanization, leading to a growing presence of dark built-up surfaces. The target o...

Porous concrete (PC) has been extensively used as a surface layer in permeable pavements. The effectiveness of this material in managing stormwater runoff depends not only on subsurface storage, but on infiltration capacity during rainfall events. A variety of tests have been traditionally used for assessing their infiltration capacity, however, th...

Flood assessment in urban catchments is usually addressed through the combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and stormwater models. However, the coupled use of these tools involves a level of detail in terms of hydrological modelling which can be beyond the scope of overall flood management planning strategies. This research consists o...

Infrastructures are designed to have a long useful life, being the phase of exploitation the longest period. This phase requires important economic resources to ensure the optimum and safe conditions of service of the infrastructure. The objective of this paper is to review the main research projects carried out in the last years related to natural...

The use of cellulose fibers (CF) has become a common technique for reducing draindown problems in porous asphalt (PA) mixtures, helping to increase the bitumen content and providing thicker binder films. In this research, a laboratory study was conducted to assess the suitability of using recycled Tetra Brick Aseptic (TBA) containers as an environm...

The transformation of both urban pavements and building roofs is essential to adapt cities to Climate Change. The project “Permeable, Resilient, Smart and Sustainable Urban Surfaces", jointly proposed by the Construction Technology Applied Research Group of the University of Cantabria (GITECO-UC) and the Institute of Water and Environmental Enginee...

This research developed a methodology for optimising the stormwater modelling of ur-ban areas using Design of Experiments (DOE), and tested it through a case study of a catchment located in the city of Espoo (Finland), which validated its applicability under real conditions. The use of DOE enabled identifying the most influential parameters on catc...

Urban drainage is being affected by Climate Change, whose effects are likely to alter the intensity of rainfall events and result in variations in peak discharges and runoff volumes which stationary-based designs might not be capable of dealing with. Therefore, there is a need to have an accurate and reliable means to model the response of urban ca...

Construction activities involve multiple risks of different natures, among which those affecting both labor and the environment play a crucial role due to their impact on living things. Despite the increased use of risk management tools over the last years, construction is the sector having the highest incidence rate in the EU, with Spain being amo...

Since 2003, up to 15 different research projects have been undertaken in the north of Spain to assess the application and usefulness of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) under the oceanic climate conditions that define this part of the country. These projects encompassed the study of all the facets related to sustainable drainage techniques...

Hydrological behavior of pervious pavements during rainfall events is a complex process that is affected by many factors such as surface type, nature of aggregates, layer thickness, rainfall height, rainfall intensity, and the preceding dry period. In order to determine the influence of construction materials on the runoff attenuation capacity of p...

Permeable pavements are one of the most commonly-used sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) in urban areas for managing stormwater runoff problems. Porous asphalt is widely used in surface layers of permeable pavement systems, where it can suffer from accidental oil spills from vehicles. Oil spills affect bituminous mixes through the solvent action o...

Permeable pavements are one of the most commonly used Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in urban areas for managing stormwater runoff problems. Porous asphalt is widely used in surface layers of permeable pavement systems, where it can suffer accidental oil spills from vehicles. Hydrocarbon spills affect bituminous mixes through the solvent actio...

Air quality has become a key factor when assessing human welfare over the years, since its cleanliness is vital to ensure the health and development of any living being. However, it is being progressively compromised by population growth and environmentally harmful human activities, such as industrialization, increased energy use and transportation...

Multi-criteria decision making methods (MCDM) have been widely used throughout the last years to assist project contractors in selection processes related to the construction field. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are an especially suitable discipline to implement these techniques, since they involve important impacts on each branch of su...

Three different drainage systems were built in a roadside car park located on the outskirts of Oviedo (Spain): two sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS), a swale and a filter drain; and one conventional drainage system, a concrete ditch, which is representative of the most frequently used roadside drainage system in Spain. The concentrations of...

Construction is an area of study wherein making decisions adequately can mean the difference between success and failure. Moreover, most of the activities belonging to this sector involve taking into account a large number of conflicting aspects, which hinder their management as a whole. Multi-criteria decision making analysis arose to model comple...

El constante desarrollo urbano de las últimas décadas ha dado como resultado una impermeabilización masiva del suelo natural para su urbanización. Esto ha desembocado en un gran incremento de los problemas relacionados con la gestión del agua en las ciudades. Se ha realizado una revisión de la bibliografía relacionada con la potencial aplicación de...

Pervious pavements have become one of the most used sustainable urban drainage system (SUDS) techniques in car parks. This research paper presents the results of monitoring water quality from several experimental car park areas designed and constructed in Spain with bays made of interlocking concrete block pavement, porous asphalt, polymer-modified...

Porous surfaces have been used all over the world as a source control technique on car parks to minimize flooding problems. Several studies pointed out the reduction of the infiltration capacity of porous mixtures surfaces after several years of use. Therefore, it is necessary to design and develop a new methodology to quantify this reduction and t...

This paper reports on an evaluation of the properties of a novel structure known as OASISwwhich was designed at Coventry University as an enhancement of the commercially available geotextiles when incorporated in the permeable pavement system (PPS). The impact on the hydraulic behaviour of a PPS was analysed through the study of infiltration rate,...

Permeable pavements are one of the world’s most widely applied technique for source control in Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS). Porous Concrete (PC) and Porous Asphalt (PA) are two of the most studied surfaces in terms of runoff reduction. Nevertheless, previous research has highlighted a lack of a comprehensive laboratory methodology for the a...

Pervious pavements offer a solution for rainwater runoff treatment in urban areas, combining storm-water management with water reuse purposes when the sub-bases become rainwater reservoirs. Furthermore, the thermal behaviour research into these systems has demonstrated their contribution to palliating the urban heat island effect in the hottest sea...

Much research has been done to determine levels of contamination in runoff from urban and rural catchment areas. Some authors compare their results with other authors or look for relationships between the variations of pollutant concentration and the catchment characteristics, but they seldom focus on determining the statistical significance of the...

Permeable pavements offer a solution for rainwater runoff treatment in urban areas, combining water management with water reuse purposes when the sealed subbase become rainwater reservoirs. Furthermore, the thermal behavior investigations of these systems have proved their contribution to palliate the urban heat island effect in the hottest season...

Pervious Pavements System (PPS) have been shown to possess a wide range of properties to effectively manage stormwater at source. The most popular PPS structure used in the UK and Spain consists of a permeable surface made of different materials such as interlocking concrete blocks, porous concrete, porous asphalt and reinforced grass, a base layer...

Flooding and diffuse pollution have become great urban problems, affecting daily life in cities. Pervious pavements can reduce these problems, and can occupy large urban areas by their use in car parks. Sixty-eight parking bays were constructed in three experimental parking areas in the north of Spain combining four pervious surfaces (interlocking...

Urban development in the last decades has brought an increase of impervious areas and, consequently, an increase of the problems related to water management in cities. Sustainable Drainage Techniques, also called BMPs or SUDS, have emerged in this context. Pervious pavements are probably the most intensively researched of these techniques. Although...

Export Date: 30 September 2013, Source: Scopus, CODEN: CBUME, doi: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2013.02.011, Language of Original Document: English, Correspondence Address: Castro-Fresno, D.; GITECO Research Group, School of Civil Engineering, University of Cantabria, Santander, 39005, Spain; email: daniel.castro@unican.es, References: Caltabiano, M.A., B...