Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) involve a series of design strategies and techniques to treat runoff water in urban settings in order to guarantee its quality to reuse it later in environmental uses, urban or domestic.
The SUDS Laboratory (SUDSlab) is part of the Construction Technology Applied Research Group (GITECO) of the University of Cantabria and analyses the SUDS work in the experimental settings built by the group. The analyses developed in this lab study the quantity and quality of runoff water filtered and stored in pervious pavements and with biodegradation of hydrocarbons processes, one of the main purification mechanisms.
