default image
Preparation technology of plant-growing ecological concrete
Ecological concrete: permeable to water and breathable, plant slope protection, ecological restoration, and water purification.
Type
Material
Tags
Environmental & resource tech
Sustainable forest management
New energy and efficient energy conservation
Solution maturity
Mass promotion / Mass production
Cooperation methods
Face-to-face consultation
Applicable industry
Water conservancy, environment and public facilities management
Applications
Ecological slope protection
Key innovations
Ecological concrete uses highly cohesive admixtures and active mixtures to take into account mechanical properties and water permeability and air permeability. It is suitable for plant growth, optimizes structural design, improves ecological effects and water purification capabilities, and is a green upgrade alternative to traditional slope protection.
Potential economic benefits
Reduce the high cost and consumables of traditional slope protection, improve durability and reduce maintenance, have excellent industrialization prospects and significant economic benefits.
Potential climate benefits
Carbon sequestration through vegetation growth reduces carbon emissions from the production of traditional concrete materials, and reduces the carbon footprint of reconstruction due to extended durability.
Solution supplier
View more
Southeast University
Southeast University
Southeast University, a top university in China, cultivates outstanding talents with both moral integrity and political integrity to serve national construction and social development.
Solution details

 Background: In social and economic development, infrastructure construction plays an important role that cannot be ignored. According to the national highway construction plan, a highway network of 400,000 kilometers will be built by 2030. While the construction and development of highways drive economic development, it also causes serious impact and damage to the ecological environment. Especially in some areas with strict requirements on ecological and environmental conditions, once the ecological environment is damaged, it will be difficult to restore. Because of its poor ventilation and water permeability, it is cut off from the outside world, making it unable to meet people's needs for ecological environment and high-quality life; on the other hand, traditional concrete masonry has a lot of consumables and high cost. It can be seen that it is urgent to improve the current slope protection.

 Introduction  to the results: Ecological concrete is an ecological restoration engineering technology suitable for use in the fields of water conservancy engineering and environmental engineering. It adopts high-cohesive admixture and active mixture composite technology to make its mechanical properties meet the engineering requirements, and at the same time, it has similar water permeability and air permeability to soil. It is suitable for green plant growth. At the same time, through configuration design, prefabricated into spherical, rectangular, spherical and other blocks, which can greatly improve the ecological effect of the water-land ecotone and the water quality purification ability. It is an upgrading technology for slope protection of water conservancy projects and has excellent industrialization prospects.

 Technical characteristics: As a cutting-edge research technology that can effectively improve the slope protection environment, plant ecological concrete slope protection technology has attracted much attention from all walks of life. Vegetation ecological concrete is composed of coarse aggregate, cementitious material, admixture and water. Through the cementation effect of the cementitious material, the coarse aggregate is wrapped to form a whole. It has the characteristics of high strength, good water permeability and air permeability. It can be planted on its surface in the later stage and is a new type of environmentally friendly material. Scholars at home and abroad have conducted a series of research on the technology of plant-growing ecological concrete slope protection and achieved certain results. At present, planting ecological concrete slope protection technology has been widely used in many Western countries. Japan was the first to conduct research on ecological concrete as an ecological material, achieved a lot of results, and formed relatively mature production and construction techniques. In the early 21st century, European and American countries first applied it to non-load-bearing structures and permeable pavements and other facilities. Later, California, the United States conducted research on the compatibility of ecological concrete with certain flowers and plants. It was found that these flowers and plants could grow on ecological concrete and achieve good landscape greening effects. Compared with ordinary concrete slope protection, ecological concrete slope protection has good erosion resistance.


Last updated
11:54:12, Nov 04, 2025
Information contributed by

See original page on

Report