News
May 1, 2023
The pipe center has just completed a major project, where 11 major climate adaptation projects have been evaluated with a view to assessing whether they work technically and whether the recreational ideas in the projects have worked. The results of these assessments are presented on a website where all the results of the project can be found. Read more here.
May 1, 2023
The following new projects have been added to LAR in Denmark:
The forest district, Middelfart
See recent installations put on WSUDS in Denmark:
May 27, 2020
Road rain gardens and planting Åbyhøj, Århus
January 22, 2020
Infiltration of stormwater in road raingardens along ”Hærvejen” in Viborg
August 26, 2019
Infiltration and evaporation of stormwater in the SIF Park, Silkeborg
Collection and infiltration of stormwater in raingardens at Skovskolen, Nødebo
Stormwater storage in Scandiagade, Copenhagen
Stormwater storage under Langelandsplads Frederiksberg
Infiltration of stormwater in ”The Old Peoples City, Copenhagen
Infiltration of stormwater water in raingardens in Bryggervangen / Sct. Kjeld's neighborhood, Copenhagen
August 9, 2019
Infiltration of rainwater in Teglværksparken, Silkeborg
Infiltration of rainwater in the Tusindfryd settlement, Silkeborg
December 21, 2017
Kongedybs Alle og Proevestens Alle
Green walls
November 17, 2017
Akvavejen, Tårnby
Lufthavnsvej, Aalborg
Porskjærvej, Galten
September 13, 2017
See recent installations put on WSUDS in Denmark:
Infiltration and delay of road water on Gustav Holms Vej Århus
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May 1, 2017
See recent installation put on WSUDS in Denmark here
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September 1, 2016
Read about how, Rudersdal municipality has made several WSUDs projects here
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August 12, 2016
Read more about climate city of Middelfart and the many projects under way in the implementation of climate adaptation plan for "Kongebrokavrteret" here:
Climat adoption of the neighborhood “Kongebrokvarteret” in Middelfart
Decoupling of rainwater and infiltration in rain gardens in a elderly center in Middelfart
Decoupling of road run-off and infiltration in a rain garden in Middelfart
Decoupling of road run-off and infiltration in road rain gardens at Karensvej Middelfart
Decoupling of road run-off in Søndergade in Middelfart
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June 28, 2016
See recent installations put on WSUDS in Denmark
Permeable paving on the car park at the Bauhaus Roskilde
Decoupling of rainwater and infiltration in rain gardens at a school in Brøndby
Renovation of a courtyard with new WSUDS construction and reuse of roof water Laundry in Copenhagen
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December 08, 2015
See recent installations put on WSUDS in Denmark
Rainwater basin at nursing home in Slagelse
WSUD in housing association Vestergården, Glostrup
WSUDS in connection with the renovation of the housing block, Amager
Rainwater is infiltrated in soakaway in senior housing complex, Brøndby Strand
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November 16, 2015
The magazine "Fritidsmagasinet" that is being distributed to all households in Denmark, writes about WSUDS in Denmark
See article here: http://www.fritidsmagasinet.dk/hus-og-have/1746-lokal-afledning-af-regnvand
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November 04, 2015
Innovation Consortium - "Cities in Water Balance" has reported on their activities, and there are many exciting experiences to read about. For example, the experience with the Construction and use of rain gardens in roads, and with the planting and operation of rain gardens in roads. About WSUDS and geological variation in the underground, and assessment of the quality rainwater run-off before and after treatment.
Read more here: http://www.teknologisk.dk/ydelser/byer-i-vandbalance/innovationskonsortie/35897
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October 06, 2015
Experiences with fascines
Christian Ramsgaard
Engineer
Maintain plant
Karup
A nonwovens around a fascine shall be selected as permeable as possible. But unfortunately, it turns out, at least here in Karup, where I am responsible for roads and sewers at Karup Airfield,
that whatever is chosen, then the nonwoven turns impermeable after a few years.
There is simply too much fine dirt in the air, it sits as a layer on the inside, which at the end makes the fascine ineffective.
In spring the fascines are completely green inside of pollen, which also contributes to the clogging.
We have ,at the air base, not made fascines with nonwovens since 2008, and we have only good experiences with “hybridfascines”.
Since we always have sight glass down to the fascines, we can always keep track of how much water there is in the fascine, and it turns out that the fascines are empty shortly after even large rainfall.
We have a fascine taking water from our parking space and some surrounding roofs. Here I made a water level indicator, so I, above ground, can keep track of how much water there is in the fascine.
It is almost always empty, but after a big cloudburst , the water level in the standpipe was up to the fourth line.
I hurried back to my office to pick up a camera so I could take a picture of it, but when I came back shortly after, the fascine was already empty.
A “hybridfascine” is a combination of a fascine made with cassettes and an old-fashioned fascines made with stones. Roughly speaking, hybridfascine consists of a hole,.
Now lay a 30 cm washed stones at the bottom, then cassettes mounted and the hole filled up around the cassettes with washed shingle. We use here 16/32.
On top of it all a two layers of non-woven materials is used before refilled.
There are several advantages in doing it this way. First, one can includes the cavity of stonelay, saving about a third of the cassettes that would have been used by the supplier's charge.
Furthermore the stones do not have to be compressed in the same way as sand will have be, in order not to settle.
For smaller systems, we also use "Kombifaskinen" which can also be viewed on the website.
We don’t understand why people continue to recommend nonwovens for fascines. We, at Karup, can´t be the only ones, that have had problems with clogging of the nonwoven.
See more about “hybridfascines” here:
http://www.laridanmark.dk/faskine-hybridfaskine-ved-parcelhus/forside/31560?cms.query=hybridfaskine
http://www.laridanmark.dk/flyvestation-karup-bortledning-af-tagvand-til-kombifaskiner-hybridfaskiner/forside/34311?cms.query=hybridfaskine
September 23, 2015
WSUDS systems and rainwater on the surface, can give some hygienic and safety problems. These issues are addressed in the attached memorandum, which gives some guidelines, that should be followed when rainwater is handled on the surface.
Se the memorandum here:
Regnvand og hygiejne (820 KB) (in danish)
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August 19, 2015
See how rainwater is handled with WSUS in Gentofte Sportspark
See project here:
WSUDS in Gentofte sports park
Demonstration WSUDS plants in Faxe
Gladsaxe sportscenter
WSUD in housing association Vestergården, Glostrup
Infiltration of rainwater in raingarden at Stig Lommers Square, Frederiksberg
Retention of rainwater in Sønderborg in 5 rain gardens
Infiltration and drainage of ranwater on Taasinge Square, Copenhagen
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August 03, 2015
2 exciting Projects with cleaning of rainwater:
See project here:
Cleaning rainwater from copperfacade
Cleaning rainwater from highway at Silkeborg
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July 28, 2015
Gladsaxe municipality has made five demo gardens with WSUDS.
The five gardens can be seen here:
Detached house with rain garden filled with stones and af Ligularia-rain garden (Bagsværd 1)
Detached house with soakaway under a trampoline and af rain garden (Bagsværd 2)
Detached house with rain garden, infiltration in the lawn and a soakaway (Bagsværd 3)
Detached house with infiltration in af rain garden (Bagsværd 4)
Terraced house with infiltration in stoneditch and af patio as a magazine (Bagsværd 5)
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May 13, 2015
It is no longer necessary to take abroad to visit WSUDS plants. In the surroundings of Copenhagen there are many possibilities to visit different plants depending on your interest e.g. green roofs, permeable paving’s or rain gardens, see here. In the links you can read more about the different plants from the information on this homepage. If you want more information, contact Søren Gabriel, Orbicon, sgab@orbicon.dk
The municipality of Brøndby have together with Hofor made a possibility for visit plants in Brøndby. you will find a description of the different plants on ” the Rain-rout” http://regnruten.dk/
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April 8, 2015
2 new projects can be seen here:
Retention of rainwater at Nordstjerneskolen Helsinge
WSUD at Egedal Town Hall
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December 18, 2014
See how in Haslev use rainwater in nature and biology training/teaching here.
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November 27, 2014
Open Hous arrangement
On 3/12-2014 there will be an open house arrangement at Tåsinge Plads in Copenhagen. Tåsinge Plads is the first climate adopted public open space in Copenhagen. See the invitation here (in Danish).
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November 27, 2014
Drainage asphalt
NCC has developed a new asphalt, that will infiltrate the rainwater under cloudburst. The water will infiltrate through the asphalt and be stored in a special developed base, before it will infiltrated in the ground. The drainage asphalt has been tested in Billund Airport since 2012 and has been functioning well. See another example of use of the drainage asphalt here