Sustainable Drainage Systems News Articles


Burdens Supply's Eco Permeable Paving SUDS Solution For Children’s Hospice

Supplying 2,000m2 of its market-leading sustainable paving system, EcoGraniteTM Aquasett®, Hanson Formpave has completed the car parking and landscape areas at a newly constructed hospice, Little Harbour, part of Children’s Hospice South West organisation.

Drainwave - The brainwave for water-efficient plumbing

Drainwave - The brainwave for water-efficient plumbing
Environmental factors have lead to an increased need for low-flush and low-flow water-saving devices. The Drainwave complements these devices, ensuring no drainage issues are caused by lack of flow through the system. The Drainwave provides the opportunity to maximise water savings whilst avoiding the problem of dry drains and blockages.The brainwave for water-efficient plumbing

E is for ecological, efficient, economic and e-cube

e-cube rainwater harvesting system
Across the globe, water supplies are becoming increasingly scarce and potable water has become a precious resource. We are all therefore encouraged to consider cutting down on water consumption and of recycling wherever we can, for example by harvesting rainwater. However, on a domestic scale, such systems have been quite large, overly costly and often incorrectly sized for their application. Until the arrival of the e-cube, that is.

Stormcell supplied by Burdens to the largest water attenuation system in Wales

Stormcell
Project News Jones Bros (Ruthin) Civil Engineering project at Parc Bryn Cregin, Llandegai near Bangor.

Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS)

Stormbloc sustainable drainage system
NO ONE can deny that intense periods of heavy rainfall are placing new challenges on our country’s drainage infrastructure.  Two thirds of the devastating 2007 Summer floods were the result of surface water flooding - urban deluges which flooded over 44,600 homes with a total bill in the region of £3 billion.