Product · Water Management
Product · InnDex 28 · Evidence provided · High specification risk
Porous concrete composite with sub-micron filtration for on-site stormwater infiltration and pollutant removal.
AquiPor is a permeable hardscape material engineered to address the permeability loss and clogging failures of conventional permeable pavers. Water infiltrates through sub-micron porosity that filters suspended solids and pollutants before recharging groundwater. Lab testing shows 97% pollutant filtration and 80%+ TSS removal, but deployment remains limited to three pilot/demonstration projects with no documented neighbourhood or commercial-scale installations.
AquiPor addresses a documented failure mode in permeable paving — conventional porous pavers lose permeability through clogging over time — by engineering sub-micron porosity that filters suspended solids and pollutants before water recharges groundwater, with lab-validated 97% pollutant removal and 80%+ TSS figures. The technical differentiation over standard permeable paving is real, and third-party lab validation gives it slightly stronger footing than most early-stage materials in this category: the single provided evidence point is meaningful because it is a validated lab test rather than a vendor claim. The gap is field deployment: only three small-scale pilot or demonstration projects exist, none with five-plus years of performance data, and the clogging behaviour of sub-micron pores under real-world traffic, climate variation, and soil loading is untested at scale. Freeze-thaw and de-icing chemical durability are undocumented, which is a significant constraint for cold-climate projects. Maintenance protocol and frequency are undefined, which creates a lifecycle cost and operational risk that cannot be quantified at this stage. Regulatory acceptance for stormwater credits varies by jurisdiction and has not been formally confirmed. Promising for stormwater-sensitive projects where lab performance can be treated as sufficient for a monitored pilot, but a live commercial project cannot yet rely on this material for code-compliance stormwater calculations without independent on-site validation.
Lab testing results (Evergreen StormH2O) are verifiable and credible; however, they are bench-scale or simulator-based, not field-validated under real long-term service. Two pilot sites in Spokane (Water Resource Center, Freya Street) are mentioned but no completion reports, performance data, or independent field monitoring results are publicly accessible. Washington Department of Ecology demonstration is announced but not yet completed or reported. No evidence of commercial adoption, cost data, durability under freeze–thaw or traffic load, or long-term clogging resistance in real field conditions. Claim of 'material strength equivalent to standard concrete' lacks published third-party structural testing. Company website was last modified October 2025 but shows no new case studies or deployment announcements since 2021 imagery.
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