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As climate change continues to impact rainfall patterns across the UK, public sector bodies are facing increasing pressure to rethink how surface water is managed within the built environment. Andrew Leah, General Manager at Duraproducts, discusses roadside combined kerb drainage as a solution to the issue...


Wetter summers, more intense rainfall events, and continued urban development mean that roadside combined kerb drainage is becoming a key aspect of road safety, while the sustainability requirements of such products are becoming equally important. As a result, surface water drainage is no longer viewed as a purely functional necessity,


but as an integral part of resilient, future-focused infrastructure design. Conventional channel drainage


systems have long depended on materials such as concrete. In most projects, the materials used for surrounding roads and carparks have been treated as a lower priority than the buildings themselves, meaning


contractors rarely searched for sustainable alternatives. However, the push to reduce Scope 3 emissions under new legislation is changing this. The energy-intensive nature of concrete


production, combined with its limited capacity for recycling, results in a  carbon within wider construction projects.


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