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LIST OF CONTENT

INTRODUCTION

NEW EAPA PRESIDENT

E&E CONGRESS 2016

Summary and conclusions Exhibition Poster session Social Events Website

EAPA COMMITTEES

EAPA GCA MEP Breakfast Debate EAPA ExCo and Directors’ Group EAPA Asphalt Plant & Equipment Manufactures Group EAPA Carbon Footprint Document Group EAPA HSE Committee EAPA Technical Committee

GLOBAL ASPHALT PAVEMENT ALLIANCE

Global Asphalt Pavement Alliance meeting

ROAD CO2 INITIATIVE

EAPA-EUROBITUME ACTIVITIES Asphalt Advantages E&E Event 2018 E&E Congress 2020

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OTHER MEETINGS & EVENTS

MIRIAM workshop ACEA event on reducing CO2 together NEPSI 10th anniversary event Construction & Demolition Waste Final Workshop ACEM Event CEN Workshop Circular Economy CEN Workshop Agreement “Sustainability Indicators for Roads” German Road and Transport Congress ROSANNE Event 1st European Road Infrastructure Congress

INTERESTING WEBSITES

UPCOMING CONGRESSES

EVENTS LIST

COLOPHON

MEMBERS


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INTRODUCTION Dear EAPA members, dear Asphalt friends,

Welcome to the 38th issue of the EAPA Newsletter. This issue of the EAPA News-letter will give you an overview what happened in the past 7 months in Brussels and in Europe. Christmas is coming soon and 2017 is coming close. At the end of a year it is always good to look back and to see what happened this year and which achievements we made.

The main event of 2016 was the 6th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress that was held in Prague. The Congress was very well attended and more important, we got a lot of positive feedback and in general the attendees were very satisfied.

Looking back at the Congress and the conclusions I presented at the end of the Congress, there is one important item I would like to mention here: The speakers from the road authority side all stressed that more cooperation is needed between the public and private sector to develop balanced contracts. They all stressed that a good cooperation between the industry and the road authorities is important and needed to make progress. Both sides need to deeper understand each other’s motivation and drivers for mutual benefit. Better contracts are needed that motiva-te the contractor to do an excellent job. Next to that the contracts should be written in such a way that they stimulate and motivate innovation.

At the E&E Congress we also saw many innovations that will help our industry to be more energy and resource efficient. Good contracts are needed to implement these new techniques. To be able to make the progress that is needed it is essential that the national road authorities and the contractors start discussing the way how contracts should be improved. This will take quite some time, but now it is time to start. There is no need to start from scratch. There are several countries in Europe where they made a start. Some are move advanced then others. By taking the best part of each country, it is possible to achieve what is needed.

For this reason it is very important to exchange information about what is happe-ning in the various countries and even the various continents. That was one of the main reasons why the Global Asphalt Pavement Alliance (GAPA) was created in 2008. During the recent GAPA meeting, which was held in Prague, directly after the E&E Congress, there were several presentations showing that we are sharing information globally and that information from colleagues from other continents

facilitates and accelerates the development and implementation of new standards and technologies.

The day before the E&E Congress stared the EAPA General Council Assembly was held in Prague and a new EAPA Executive Committee was elected. John Kruse Larsen (Denmark) was elected as the new EAPA President.

An other item that needs to be mentioned here are the revised asphalt standards EN 13108. These were published by CEN in June 2016 and they are now availa-ble at the National Standardisation Bodies (DIN, BSI, AFNOR, etc.).However there is a ‘small’ problem at this moment. The European Commission has rejected the publication of the new revised asphalt standards in the Official Journal of the EU because “additional values/categories were introduced in some tables”, which were seen as possible barriers to trade (although these new classes introduced are just technical categories). We are not the only industry facing this problem. There more than 100 other standards that are facing the same problem. As you might expect, we are working on this problem from different directions. You will be informed when the problem has been solved.

This summer the revised EU Green Public Procurement Criteria for Road Design, Construction and Maintenance became available on-line.In October 2016 we published the EAPA - EUPAVE - FEHRL joint Position Paper “Road Pavement industries highlight huge CO2 savings offered by maintaining and upgrading roads”. This brochure highlights that almost 28 million tonnes of CO2 from road transport could be saved yearly by maintaining and upgrading roads well.

In November EAPA, UEPG (the European Aggregates Association) and Eurobitu-me had a parliamentary breakfast debate in the European Parliament in Brussels hosted by the Member of European Parliament (MEP) Wim van de Camp (EPP, The Netherlands).

In this introduction I mentioned some items that will be addressed in this Newsletter and I hope it will give you inspiration and new ideas for 2017. Enjoy reading it.

Egbert Beuving, Secretary-General of EAPA


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NEW EAPA PRESIDENTDuring a short EAPA Executive Commit-tee meeting held directly after the EAPA General Council Assembly on 31 May 2016 the in Prague the (new) Executive Committee elected a new EAPA Presi-dent and a new EAPA Vice-President.John Larsen, of the Danish Asphalt Pavement Association was elected as new EAPA President and Christoph Hagemeier, of the German Asphalt As-sociation (DAV) was elected as EAPA Vice-President.

The new EAPA President John Larsen thanked the ExCo members for having elected him as EAPA Chairman for the next two years. He felt honoured and he mentioned that he will do his best to be a good successor of Ayberk Öz-can. EAPA and the asphalt sector have many challenges in the coming years and he is looking forward to working together on these challenges with the EAPA ExCo members and the EAPA Se-cretariat. “We have to model our own future and not to go in the food path of another person or sector; then we will always be behind”.

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Leaving EAPA President Ayberk Özcan (left) and the new EAPA President John Larsen.


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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

During the closing session of the Congress, Egbert Beuving (EAPA) gave a sum-mary of the E&E Congress 2016. He started with the numbers: 1. 817 Delegates2. 172 Exhibitors (incl. staff)3. 66 Accompanying persons4. 1077 Registered persons in total5. 58 Exhibitors (companies & organisations)6. 1000 m2 net Exhibition space 7. 247 Accepted Papers 8. 164 Posters 9. 10 Sponsors

In the Opening session Ismail Ertug, Member of European Parliament, mentioned in his Keynote address that we have to use the new technologies and that we have to be professional.Dan Ťok, the Minister of Transport in Czech Republic expected from the congress some new technologies to save costs and nature (and he got it).

In the “Road owners and road users views” session Jean-Francois Corté (PIARC) mentioned that transportation and mobility are central to a sustainable develop-ment. He added that maintenance of our greatest asset (being roads) is important and more cooperation between the public and the private sector is needed to develop balanced contracts.Donna James (Highways England) stressed that we need to seek out optimum ways to minimise risk to all parties and that the road authorities and the road contractors need to seek a deeper understanding of each other’s motivation and drivers, for mutual benefit. So we need contracts that motivate. Thierry Goger of FEHRL (Forum of European National Highway Research Labo-ratories) addressed Innovation and the implementation of Innovation. He under-lined that contracts have to be made in such a way that they are a motivation for innovation.

In the session “External factors” Fuensanta Martinez Sans of the European Auto-mobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA), explained that good roads can redu-ce fuel consumption.Vincent Basuyau, DG GROW of the European Commission, explained the Euro-pean Circular Economy Package and mentioned the potential for innovation and investments.

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The EU Green Public Procurement for Road, Design, Construction and Mainte-nance – GPP criteria have been published and can be used voluntarily by public authorities. Isabelle Muller of Union Française des Industries Pétrolières (Ufip) explained that bitumen will remain available in the future.

In the last session of the 1st day “What the industry can provide” Bjarne Schmidt of the Danish Road Directorate showed that the Rolling Resistance of surface lay-ers can be reduced by more than 10%, leading to a reduction in fuel consumption of up to 6%.A cooperation between the industry and road authorities is important to make progress.Arian de Bondt of Ooms Civiel (the Netherlands) showed that it is possible to use new technologies in PPP-projects, which are beneficial for road construction industry, road users and society. He stressed that tenders for motorways should incorporate the maintenance aspect. Good contracts stimulate innovation and when you ask for quality, you will get it.Rien Huurman, BAM, the Netherlands, showed the latest technology to re-use Porous Asphalt for new Porous Asphalt, by decomposing porous asphalt in its components first.Etienne Lebouteiller of IBEF explained how to get advantage of the new techno-logies.

The main conclusion of the first day was: A motivation for innovation is needed in contracts.

The second day started with the session “Recycling – Re-use”. About 40 years ago, the Asphalt industry started with recycling / re-use for economic reasons. Now we have Circular Economy, CO2 reduction and CO2 footprint. The main new topics in the papers of this session were dealing with binder ageing / hardening, softening / rejuvenation of aged binder (different rejuvenators) and high RAP-per-centages. The papers showed: We can go up to almost 100% re-use. The present challenges are the use of more Reclaimed Asphalt in surface courses. The communication Workshop “Become an ‘Asphalt Advocate’” made clear that communication is key for our industry. New (social) and old media (ALARM Sur-vey) are needed to get the message across. Main message from the session was: We have a great product and we should tell that everybody.

In the session “Mixture Performance and Testing” the focus was on Ageing and its

importance for durability. The influence of filler, aggregate, bitumen source and bitumen grading on ageing was addressed as well as the difference between oxidative ageing (in the lab) and ageing in the road pavement in real practice. Several papers were addressing the effect of filler (hydrated lime) on the asphalt behaviour and it was stated that more attention should be paid to the importance of the mastic properties too.

The Health, Safety & Environment sessions was dealing with Noise, Porous Asp-halt, Porous mastic asphalt, Skid resistance and the lower emissions of Low Tem-perature Asphalt / Warm Mix Asphalt compared to Hot Mix asphalt

In the session “Binder Performance & Testing” new innovative binder additivities were presented. Several were Bio mass based (by using of vegetable oil, lignin, cashew nut shell oil etc.). Also Nanotechnology, Bitumen quality and Bitumen testing were addressed.A new development in bitumen testing was the SAR-AD (Saturates, Aromatics and Resins - Asphaltene Determinator) analyses. This technique was developed by Western Research Institute in the USA and it determines the generic composition of bitumen. They started this research because for several contractors the standard EN 12591 (for Paving grade bitumen) appeared as insufficient to ensure satisfac-tory performance of the final products. With this new test, good correlations were found with several bitumen viscosity or rheological tests.

In the Smart management of road infrastructure seminar, efficient and effective maintenance was discussed. Roads have become so normal that nobody realises that they also need to be maintained. The problem is that roads do not collapse; they slowly become an unbound road. Therefore the managers of roads have to get smarter so they can understand real road maintenance strategies.

The Poster session with two time slots during the congress was a great success (see below).

The first session of the third day was “Warm Asphalt Mixtures”. The first Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) technologies were introduced 20 years ago and they were presented during E&E Congress in 2000 in Barcelona. Since then many techno-logies became available. For the E&E Congress 2016, 26 quality papers were submitted regarding WMA. One third of the papers was dealing with WMA-tech-nologies in combination with Recycled Asphalt.The other papers are mainly dealing with evaluating, demonstrating and deve-loping WMA rather than implementing WMA technology. So the main question


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still is: How to succeed with the implementation of WMA. WMA has many advan-tages but the need for a change must be understood and accepted. Therefore key stakeholders’ involvement is necessary.The key customers/purchasers of asphalt products play a very important role here and their support is needed. Economic incentives as they had in Norway are needed to make progress and to boost implementation. WMA is the future and for those that did not start yet, it’s time to start leaning now.

The session “Maintenance & Rehabilitation” was dealing with increasing Pave-ment Service Life. In the Netherlands they developed service life extending tech-niques for Porous Asphalt. These techniques provided good results and now they are standard practice in the Netherlands. Premature pavement failures/distresses occur too often and in this session also the influence of asphalt workmanship on pavement service life was discussed. In Norway in some contracts they require a certificate showing that the workers had a training and passed the exam. Such a requirement is in line with new Public Procurement Directive of 2014.

In the session on “Sustainable development” there were presentations regarding Product Category Rules (PCR) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD). The key end-use customers are now starting to be interested in some type of environ-mental impact information. Asphalt industry must make certain that decisions that are based on environmental impact are made on appropriate data to ensure the best outcome for asphalt users and customers. Now surface layers can be optimised to reduce Rolling Resistance of the pave-ment, but we should not forget other relevant characteristics. Now we understand how texture and the Longitudinal Profile of the road interact with Rolling Resistan-ce. We have software to reduce the environmental impact of road construction and maintenance in Europe to help local authorities to evaluate the environmental impact between different solutions. However some harmonisation in tools (soft-ware) and databases is useful for implementing Green Public Procurement.

In his final conclusions Beuving mentioned: We have the technologies to re-use asphalt at every level and even up to 95%, we have the technologies to modify the binders where needed, to design pavements, to determine CO2, etc. etc. We have the knowledge to educate and train student and workers and we have high tech equipment with IT technology available. What we do need a good contracting system to implement the technologies we saw here in Prague to build asphalt roads in a sustainable way.

EXHIBITION

POSTER SESSION

During the Congress there was an exhi-bition on two levels. In total, there were 58 exhibitors using 1000 m2 net exhi-bition space.

On the second day of the Congress there was a “Poster Session – Meet the authors” in the morning after the coffee break. In total 164 poster were pre-sented and the authors of the papers/posters were present to explain the paper and to discuss the results obtain-ed. There was a second Poster Session (Reception) in the evening. Both Poster sessions were well attended and they were a great success.

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Poster Session

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SOCIAL EVENT

WEBSITE

On the first evening of the Congress a Reception and Congress Dinner was held in the beautiful in Žofín Palace in Prague.

On the Congress website: http://www.eecongress2016.org/ videos of all the presentations given in the large auditorium can be viewed or downloaded. Pictures of the congress and the dinner are available on this website as well as the PowerPoint sli-des of the Congress conclusions. The abstracts of the accepted papers can be downloaded and in 2017 the full papers will be available on the Con-gress website too.

Žofín Palace

EAPA GCA 2016

Jean-Paul Michaut

EAPA COMMITTEES EAPA GCA

The EAPA General Council Assembly was held on 31 May 2016 in Prague.

Ms. Gülay Malkoç, chairlady of the EAPA Health, Safety and Environment Committee gave a report of the activi-ties of the HSE Committee of the last 12 months. Jean-Paul Michaut, chair-man of the EAPA Technical Committee, presented an overview of the activities of the TC and Egbert Beuving gave an overview of the activities of the EAPA Asphalt Plant & Equipment Manufactu-rers Group, as chairman of this group.Carsten Karcher presented the EAPA secretariat activities of the last 12 months.The EAPA financial report of 2015 was approved as well as the proposed bud-get for 2017 and the EAPA fee structu-re for 2017.

The GCA elected a new EAPA Execu-tive Committee for a two-year period. The EAPA Executive Committee mem-bers elected were:• Ayberk Özcan (ASMUD, Turkey)• Chris Hudson (MPA, UK)• Christoph Hagemeier (DAV, Germany)• Jacques Tavernier (USIRF, France)• John Larsen (Asfaltindustrien Den- mark and napa, the Nordic countries)• Juan José Potti (Asefma, Spain)• Slovenko Henigman (ZAS, Slovenia and the Danube countries)

The new EAPA Competition Law Com-pliance Guideline was approved and accepted.Other agenda items were Asphalt pro-motion and the AsphaltAdvantages.com website, the E&E Congress 2016, the EAPA Symposium 2017, the E&E Event 2018 and the E&E Congress 2020.

The next EAPA GCA 2017 will be held on 31 May 2017 and the EAPA Sym-posium 2017 will be held on the fol-lowing day on 1st June 2017, both in Paris.



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MEP BREAKFAST DEBATE

On 17th November 2016, the European Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA), the European Aggregates Association (UEPG) and Eurobitume had a parliamen-tary debate in the European Parliament in Brussels hosted by the Member of European Parliament (MEP) Wim van de Camp (EPP, The Netherlands). For 90 minutes 23 participants, among them MEP Ismail Ertug (S&D, Germany), Vincent Basuyau of the European Commission (EC), DG GROWTH, members of EAPA, representatives of UEPG, Eurobitume, the Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (FEHRL), and the European Union Road Federation (ERF) discussed the “Environmental Responsibility and Innovations in the European As-phalt Pavement Industry”. In a fruitful debate with a nice atmosphere, Parliament and Commission were in-formed about role asphalt pavements play in contributing to a circular economy, a sustainable development and CO2 emissions reduction in the transport sector. The-re was an exchange of several important industry related topics like investments in road maintenance and the European road network, Green Public Procurement, road safety and noise, and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). Furthermore, the advantages of asphalt e.g. noise reducing asphalt pavements were explained by an example of the “AsphaltAdvantages” campaign that was displayed on a banner in the meeting room.MEP Wim van de Camp thanked the participants for their contributions to the discussion and the information presented about asphalt pavements and its role for the road infrastructure that was given to the MEPs and EC. He reminded the asp-halt industry to focus more on the tools that are provided by the European Union to increase investment for European roads.Much more information and pictures can be found on the EAPA website http://www.eapa.org/news.php.

Participants of the MEP Breakfast Debate

MEPs Wim van de Camp and Ismail Ertug

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EAPA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE & DIRECTORS’ GROUP

On 17 November 2016 the EAPA Executive Committee and the EAPA Directors’ Group had a joint meeting in the EAPA offices in Brussels.

Under “EAPA secretariat” the membership situation and the fee structure for 2018 were discussed.The E&E congress was evaluated and several suggestions for the next congress were made.

Next several communication aspects were discussed. There was a report about the European Road Infrastructure Conference (ERIC) 2016 in Leeds and the Glo-bal Asphalt Pavement Alliance (GAPA) meeting in June in Prague. The planned future activities EAPA / Eurobitume Task Force “Providing Evidence Asphalt Advantages” were presented. Other items addressed under this agenda item were the joint Position Paper of the Road CO2 Group, a joint press release with FEHRL and EUPAVE, the location and themes of the EAPA Symposium 2017, the E&E Event 2018 in Berlin and the E&E Congress 2020 in Madrid.

Under agenda item “Technical Topics” there were reports of EAPA Technical Com-mittee and the EAPA Asphalt Plant & Equipment Producers Group, European Stan-dardisation activities and EU legislation.

Under “Health, Safety & Environment Topics” an “Amendment of the EU ETS (EU Emission Trading Scheme) directive for Phase IV” was discussed and actions plan-ned. Other items discussed were Health, Safety & Environment Committee issues, Bitumen Industry Health Forum activities, the Carbon Footprint Document, Silica Dust and Green Public Procurement.

The next EAPA ExCo and Directors’ Group meeting will be held on 7th March 2017 in Brussels.

EAPA ASPHALT PLANT AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS (AP&EM) GROUP

The EAPA Asphalt Plant and Equipment Manufacturers (AP&EM) Group had a meeting in May and October 2016 in Paris.

The main agenda item of both meetings was standardisation of data interfaces for machine to machine communication on jobsites with mixed fleets.The group agreed that it would be very useful for contractors to have a standard data format for a mixed fleet because most contractors do have a mixed fleet. When there is a defined structure in the data, the equipment producers know how to deal with the numbers of their own system. It was agreed, that an involvement of the Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE) in an early stage was needed.After the May-meeting a proposal was written to extend the telematics data stan-dard with specific data required in real time to manage a road building job site. This is technically straightforward given the fact that state-of-the-art road building machines are equipped with microcontrollers and devices that can communicate with each other in applications without a host computer.This proposal was discussed in the CECE Product Group Road Equipment and the-re it was decided to install a working group to evaluate the possibility to develop a common Machine to Machine (M2M) communication protocol based on actual telematics standards together with EAPA.

Next to this item the group also discussed how the introduction of new technolo-gies could be stimulated and how information systems could be used. A paving process optimisation system for the asphalt sector was presented by one of the group members.

Other items on the agenda were EAPA’s Draft Position Paper “The Ideal Project” and observed trends at Bauma 2016. There was a short report concerning the CECE Congress held in Prague and suggestions for presentations for the EAPA Symposium 2017 in Paris and 1st E&E Event 2018 in Berlin were discussed and provided.There was also an update of the work of the ISO TC195 WG9 Ad-Hoc Group “Fumes & Aerosols from bitumens”. The draft for “Emission Reduction Systems” is finalised and in the normal standardisation process. The measurement remained the same; an additional alternative test set-up was added. There is no mandatory requirement. Pavers with an operating mass above 8 tons shall be designed and build in such a way that an Emission Reducing System can be fitted to the paver. For pavers with an operating mass below 8 tons there are no requirements.

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EAPA CARBON FOOTPRINT DOCUMENT GROUP

There have been two meetings of the Task Group Carbon Footprint Document (TG CFD) in the last months. Both were held in Paris on 5th/6th July 2016 and on 12th

October 2016 to prepare the final draft of the “Guidance Document for prepa-ring Product Category Rules (PCR) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for Asphalt Mixtures”. In the meantime, this document has been approved by the EAPA Committees but still needs final approval by the General Council Assembly.

Altogether twelve experts (EAPA members and guests) worked together for more than two years to provide this guidance for the European asphalt industry to be able to create an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for a European asphalt mixture.

The final draft guidance document was send to CEN TC 227 WG6 by EAPA Se-cretary General Egbert Beuving to provide the industries view on the PCR/EPDs for asphalt mixtures as road construction material. The Guidance Document will be publicly available beginning of June 2017.

TG CFD membersGeir Lange and Ismail Cavagnol

SAVE THE DATE

The organisation of the next E&E Event and E&E Congress has already started. The steering groups started working and preparing the floor for the organising committees by signing venue contracts, booking hotels and giving input for the

content of the events.

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EAPA HSE COMMITTEE

The latest HSE Committee meeting was held on 12th October 2016 in Paris with 22 participants.

Under the health items, the current Post IARC Bitumen Monograph activities were discussed, amongst them, the dif-ferentiation of Air Rectified and Oxidi-zed Bitumen as well as the handing of different test procedures for measuring asphalt fumes and aerosols in the labo-ratory and in the field. In May 2016, the European Commission officially presented a proposal for amending the Carcinogen and Mutagens at Work Di-rective (CMD). As part of the proposed amendments Respirable Crystalline Si-lica (RCS) now is included in the CMD with an occupational exposure limit value of 0,1 mg/m³. M Dechelle of the European Aggregate Association (UEPG), participated in the HSE meet-ing and had an information exchange with the committee about the latest de-velopments on Respirable Crystalline

Silica (RCS) and the European Net-work on Silica (NEPSI). Furthermore, Jutta Dietz and Christian Berning of the European Milling Association (VESF) gave presentations and exchanged in-formation with the committee on the ex-periences with silica dust and asbestos during cold milling.

As environment items the committee discussed the topics Carbon Footprint (see separate article on Guidance Do-cument for CPR and EPD in this newslet-ter), Green Public Procurement, Rolling Resistance (see separate article on the ROSANNE Final Workshop and the CO2 Position Paper in this newsletter), and the Circular Economy activities of the EU.

The next meeting will be held on 5th

April 2017 in Berlin.

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Christian Berning (VESF)

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EAPA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE

The EAPA Technical Committee had a meeting on 13 October 2016 in Paris.The meeting started with the election of a new EAPA TC chairman because Jean-Paul Michaut retired. Knut Johannsen (Germany) was elected as new TC chair.

The TC discussed standardisation issues regarding the work of CEN TC 227/WG1 “Bituminous Mixtures” and CEN TC336 WG1 “Bituminous Binders for Pa-ving”.The draft EAPA Paper “The Ideal Project” was presented. The aim of this paper is to encourage all working in the asphalt industry and at the road authority side to contribute to making / constructing more durable asphalt pavements. It provides techniques and procedures currently considered to be the best practice as well as the latest technologies. Many ideas were proposed for a second draft of this paper. Knut Johannsen presented results of a Rejuvenator study done at the Ruhr-Univer-sity Bochum. The study showed how rejuvenators can work. Many elements of the study were discussed and it was decided to invite someone from the Ruhr-Universi-ty Bochum for the next TC meeting to be able to discuss this subject in more detail. Ms Jutta Dietz of VESF e.V. (the European Milling Association) explained how the evenness of roads can be approved by milling. A second presentation of VESF was given by Markus Lang of BOMAG GmbH. He explained how the milling process is influencing the aggregate size of the Reclaimed Asphalt. Both presen-tations were highly appreciated by the committee members.It was decided to update the EAPA paper “Heavy duty pavements – the Arguments for Asphalt”.The results of the EAPA Asphalt Plant & Equipment Producers Group were discus-sed as well as the draft EAPA Guidelines for PCR and EPDs for asphalt. Suggestions for presentations for the EAPA Symposium 2017 in Paris and the E&E Event in Berlin in 2018 were made.Other subjects that were discussed were Green Public Procurement, Solar panels on asphalt to generate electricity, BIM (Building Information Management / Mo-del), Qualified staff, the CEN Workshop Agreement - Sustainability Indicators for Roads, Induction Charging, the FunDBitS project and the AsphaltAdvantages campaign.

The next EAPA TC meeting will be held on 6 April 2017 in Berlin.

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EAPA TC meeting

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The participants of the GAPA Meeting 2016

From left to right: Rob Vos (AAPA), Carsten Karcher (EAPA, Luis Limon (AMAAC), Kevin Kelly (NAPA), Heather Dylla (NAPA), Mike Acott (NAPA), Audrey Copeland (NAPA), Bennie Greyling (Sabita), Saied Solomons (Sabita), Osamu Kamada (JRCA), John Larsen (EAPA), Masakuni Ono (JRCA), Koji Hamada

(JRCA), José Jorge Lopez (AMAAC) and Egbert Beuving (EAPA).

GLOBAL ASPHALT PAVEMENT ALLIANCE GLOBAL ASPHALT PAVEMENT ALLIANCE MEETING

The Global Asphalt Pavement Alliance (GAPA) meeting was held on 3 June 2016 in Prague, just after the E&E Congress.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the Australian Asphalt Pavement Association (AAPA), the Mexican Asphalt Association (AMAAC), the European Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA), the Japanese Road Contractors Associa-tion (JRCA), the National Asphalt Pavement Association of the USA (NAPA) and the South African Bitumen Association (Sabita) and chaired by Egbert Beuving (EAPA).

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It was decided to hold the next GAPA meeting on 17 August 2017 in Melbourne, Australia directly after the 17th AAPA International Conference “Roads of the Fu-ture: Embracing Disruption”, which will be held from the 13 – 16 August, 2017.

Promotion of Asphalt with a NAPA presentation regarding the asphalt Pave-ment Alliance activities. Promotion / protection of the industry with a JRCA presentation about their activities to promote their industry in Japan to attract young people and the Japanese qualification system for “Pavement Works Execution Managing Engineers” (since 1995) and “Pavement Diagnostic Engineers” which will start in 2017.Standardisation with Sabita explaining the adoption of PG bitumen specifica-tions in South Africa.Technical issues with progress with EME in South Africa and the use of reju-venators in Europe by Carsten Karcher of EAPA, Improved Performance & Durability Initiative by NAPA, Exploring ways to obtain more durable pave-ments by EAPA and Durable Pavement in Japan by JRCA.Under “Health and safety issues” the OSHA’s Silica Rule & Milling Operati-ons were explained by NAPA.The Environment / Sustainability issues with Green Public Procurement, pre-sented by EAPA, Albedo Requirements by NAPA and the NAPA EPD (Environ-mental Product Declaration) & Product Category Rules (PCR) Programme by NAPA.The last item was Regulatory / Legislation issues, where Sabita presented the Road Funding in South Africa and NAPA explained the FAST Act Highway Funding.


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ROAD CO2 INITIATIVEA joint initiative of three associations active in road construction – EAPA, FEHRL (the Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories) and EUPAVE (the European Concrete Paving Association) – highlights the opportunity offered by the road pavement itself to reduce CO2 and other emissions from vehicles: Smooth, well-maintained road surfaces lead to lower rolling resistance, and thus lower emissions from vehicles, and so upgrading and maintaining roads should be part of any strategy to reduce road transport emissions.“Almost 28 million tonnes of CO2 from road transport could be saved yearly – let’s not waste this opportunity!”The three associations created, in the so called “Road CO2 Group”, a common Position Paper that shows the contribution of Road Infrastructure to reduce CO2 emissions in transport sector. This document was prepared to show the necessity of maintenance and to deliver general information and awareness in the form of a short report to Member States, National Road Authorities, European Commission, European Parliament and road construction industry.The Road CO2 Group calls for increased investment in roads and greater align-ment of policies on CO2 with policies for upgrading and maintenance of roads. “Research done by FEHRL members has shown that smoother roads can reduce CO2 emissions from vehicles to the order of 5% - this adds up to huge savings across the whole network,” said Thierry Goger, Secretary General of FEHRL. “The-re is a risk that a lack of sufficient investment in our road infrastructure will mean emissions go up instead of down. Authorities should not forget that degraded roads are not only unsafe, but they also work against CO2 reduction targets,” said Carsten Karcher, Director of EAPA.The full position paper can be downloaded on the EAPA website: http://www.eapa.org/publications.php?c=229 . Please feel free to use this docu-ment for your purposes and to print it whenever and wherever appropriate.A related press release can also be found on the EAPA website: http://eapa.org/userfiles/2/News/2016-07-20%20Joint%20press%20re-lease%20EUPAVE%20EAPA%20FEHRL.pdf .

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1 . I N T R O D U C T I O N

Road transport contributes to about a fifth of the EU’s total emissions of CO2[1]. Unlike other sectors, transport emissions have been generally increasing since 1990. As a result, the EU sets binding targets on cars and commercial vehicles, aiming to steadily reduce vehicle emissions. Heavy-duty vehicles, which contribute to about a quarter of EU road transport CO2 emissions, are not yet subject to binding targets.

One route to greater reductions in CO2 emissions from road transport is currently not being exploited: the influencethe road infrastructure itself has on vehicle emissions. Specifically, smooth, well maintained road pavements will lead to the best performance of vehicles with regard to CO2 emissions. Conversely, a road network which is allowedto deteriorate will not only work against all efforts to reducevehicle emissions, but will also lead to higher road maintenance or reconstruction costs over the long term.

There are many reasons why a modern, well-maintained road network is desirable; the opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions is just one of these. Policy-makers should be made aware of how such CO2 savings can contribute to their overall emissions targets, and how this can be achieved in combination with the regular road maintenance. Armed with this information, policy-makers will be better placed to see the benefits of investing in their road network.

The fact is that with Europe’s current road network, if all other factors remained the same, CO2 emissions from road transport would steadily creep up each year. This is a call to take action now!

Unlike other CO2-saving strategies, upgrading the road network can start now. It does not rely on new technologies to be developed.

Such upgrading is meant to take place as regular road maintenance, which is often delayed due to budgetary constraints. Regular road maintenance is part of road asset management. When the road gets a new surface layer this new surface layer will automatically have lower rolling losses because it is smoother and more even than the replaced one. In

this way even normal maintenance leads to CO2 reduction. Additionally, upgrading roads would have a positive effect in terms of growth and jobs. Construction activity has a strong multiplier effect on growth thanks to its local nature.

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Further benefits include: better air quality (since emissions other than CO2 will also be reduced proportionally), noise reduction, reduced vehicle maintenance costs and safer roads. Total energy use will be reduced too, so savings remain relevant as we move towards renewable sources.

This paper aims to quantify the benefits to be gained for Europe from investments in roads, and provides ideas on policies that would be needed to capitalise on this CO2 saving potential. The focus is on motorways and major roads, as these are responsible for a substantial proportion of road transport CO2 emissions.

T H E D I F F E R E N C E . .

The contribution of the road industry to the European economy in numbers:

Every euro invested in construction generates €3 intotal economic activity[5]

The estimated turnover of the road construction sector in Europe is about €110 billion/year[6]

Number of people working in the road construction sector in the EU is about 600,000[7]

The main impact over the life of a road is the emissions from vehicles riding on it. The amount of energy and emissions associated with building and maintaining a road is a fraction of that used by the traffic on the road. For a highly trafficked road, embodied impacts are just 1 or 2 % (or even less than 1% for very high traffic volumes) of the total impact over 30 years[2,3,4].

This paper deals only with the savings thanks to road pavements – which can be constructed from asphalt or concrete - and not with the effects of (re)alignment of infrastructure or optimisation of traffic flows.

Improved pavements reduce CO2 while simultaneously providing other advantages: ° Safety ° Noise reduction ° Comfort ° Energy reduction

2 . H O W D O R O A D PA V E M E N T S I N F L U E N C E C O 2 E M I S S I O N S ?The road pavement directly influences vehicle fuel consumption through the rolling losses experienced by a vehicle riding over it. Rolling losses include both energy losses in the suspension system due to an uneven road, and losses at the level of contact between the tyre and the pavement. Various aspects of the quality of the road surface influence rolling losses: evenness, rutting, potholes and deteriorated joints. Other factors, such as pavement characteristics, can also influence rolling losses.

Poor quality or deteriorated pavements contribute to higher rolling losses.

Road maintenance will reduce emissions immediately and for the future. Road maintenance can contribute to CO2 reduction in two ways. °

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Despite the fact that roads are, and will remain, the principalmode of land transport in Europe, at this moment many majorroads are in poor condition[8]. This situation leads to more CO2emissions from vehicles, more air pollution, more traffic noise and unsafe roads. If not dealt with, poor qualityof road pavements can even lead to imposing lowerspeed limits and closure of roads.

3 . T H E N U M B E R SWhat is the magnitude of the potential savings?

Independent studies demonstrate that vehicle fuel consumption and CO2 emissions increase with an increasingpavement roughness and inadequate surface texture forall types and classes of vehicles. Thus, a higher pavementsmoothness reduces CO2 emissions. A Transportation Research Board report[9] shows that an increase of surface roughness (measured by using International Roughness Index - IRI) IRI of 1 m/km leads to an increased fuel consumption for heavy trucks of 1% at normal highway speed (96 km/h) and 2% at low speed (56 km/h). Surface texture (measured by Mean Profile Depth - MPD) has an influence for heavy trucks too: an increase in MPD of 1 mm will increase fuel consumption by about 1.5% at 88 km/h and by about 2% at 56 km/h. In a Danish report[10], it is shown how the development of the national evenness index of the Danish State Road network depends on the budget for maintenance and repair from 1998 to 2008. It gives a good overview what happens if the budget for maintenance is not sufficient: fuel consumption could increase by some 3%[9,10]. Therefore, a proper and well-budgeted maintenance of the road surfaces is crucialfor keeping the IRI and the related CO2 emissions low. A study at a test track in Nevada [11] showed that trucks drivingon smooth pavements after the rehabilitation of the pavement consume 4.5% less fuel.

Proper maintenance to replace pavement surfacesthat show “bad” or under-performing surface conditions by smooth road surfaces with “good” properties would result in CO2 emission reduction forthe existing European road network. The presenteddata prove that this would lead to fuel reductions and lower CO2 emissions of up to 5%.

Therefore, an upgrade of one third of the entire roadnetworkof Europe by 2030 could lead to yearly savingsof 14 million tonnes of CO2. If two thirds of the network were upgraded, this could be 28 million tonnes of CO2 saved yearly[12]. This is the equivalent of replacing 6 million cars with zero-emission cars![13]

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Road maintenance or upgrading improves the smoothness of the road. This will lead to a reduction in vehicle CO2 emissions.By applying new surface layers with low rolling resistance in mind, an even greater CO2 reduction willbe achieved. In both cases, other aspects such as a higher durabilitycan be built in to ensure that the reduction continuesinto the future.


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EAPA-EUROBITUME ACTIVITIES ASPHALT ADVANTAGES

The Asphalt Advantages online campaign, which has been launched jointly by Eu-ropean Asphalt Pavement Association (EAPA) and Eurobitume in October 2014, celebrates its second anniversary by encouraging advocates to engage. After reaching stakeholders in over 125 countries and demonstrating reasons why asp-halt is the material of first choice for road construction and maintenance, Asphalt Advantages is encouraging supporters to embrace the online tool kit and related video to create their own sub-campaigns.

The new educational video is now available on www.AsphaltAdvantages.com and is titled “Learn how to become an Asphalt Advantages Advocate in 5 easy steps”. This video encourages asphalt industry stakeholders to get involved and support the campaign by promoting asphalt benefits, stimulating discussions and sharing information. The video is aimed at inspiring asphalt stakeholders to join the campaign and become an active advocate for Asphalt Advantages. The goal is to mobilise new advocates with the on-line tools available to share the important key messages about the benefits of asphalt to a wider audience.

Additionally, the EAPA and Eurobitume Team behind this campaign has been wor-king on the German, French and Turkish translation of the content of the website in the last months. Finally, all four languages are online now!

In January 2016 twelve new AsphaltAdvantages in all four languages will be released!

Everybody is invited to spread the asphalt advantages and the information given on the website. Therefore, different supporting tools have been created. Those are provided in a toolbox and can be downloaded from this website to support the campaign. Please feel free to add the provided tools on your association’s or com-pany’s website or use the tools for your printed or online magazine. We would be glad to see the advertisement in your publications. Some of these adverts can be found in this newsletter as an example.

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E&E EVENT 2018

The time between two E&E Congresses, which are held every four years, was considered to be a too long period to maintain the momentum created by the congresses. Therefore, EAPA and Eurobitume decided to start organising an event in the even years, in between. Thus, the first E&E Event will be organised in Berlin and it is scheduled for 14 and 15 June 2018.

The E&E Event will be different from the E&E Congresses. The main difference is that there will be no call for technical papers and it will be 2 day event instead of 3 days. The E&E Event will have a certain theme and the speakers, providing the content, will be ‘invited speakers’. The event is meant for both technical and general staff/management.In the years where the ‘E&E Events’ are held EAPA will not organise the EAPA Symposium.

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E&E CONGRESS 2020

The next Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress will be held on 12 – 14 May 2020 in Madrid and it will be organised by EAPA and Eurobitume. The preparations for this 7th E&E Congress already started.

7th E&E CONGRESS E U R A S P H A L T & E U R O B I T U M E 1 2 - 1 4 M A Y 2 0 2 0

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EUROPEAN STANDARDISATION CEN TC227

On 13 and 14 June 2016 the CEN TC227 meeting was held in Berlin.In this meeting the activities and progress of the Working Groups were reported and discussed. Lionel Odie (Cerema, France) was elected as new convenor of Working Group 2 “Surface treatments” and is the successor of Martin Heslop (UK), who retired. Several Work items were approved and there was a presentation on the back-ground and purposes of the CEN Workshop Agreement on SUSTINROADS - Sus-tainability assessment of roads.The next CEN TC227 meeting will be held on 19 and 20 June 2017 in Cyprus.

CEN TC227 meeting in Berlin

CEN TC227 WG1 meeting in Paris

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CEN C227 WG1

The CEN TC227 WG1 “Bituminous Mixtures” meeting that was held on 9 and 10 November 2016 in Paris started with a short report from the CEN TC227 meeting.The next item was the publication of the new hEN 13108 Asphalt standards in the Official Journal of the EU. The new revised product standards (the EN 13108-series) were published by CEN end June 2016, so they are now available at the National Standardisation Bodies. However the European Commission had rejected the publication of the new revised asphalt standards in the Official Journal of the EU because “additio-nal values/categories were introduced in some tables”, which were seen as pos-sible barriers to trade (although these new classes are just technical categories).CEN TC227 WG1 agreed on an approach to solve this problem as soon as possi-ble and at this moment several people are working on this issue to solve it. Next to the asphalt standards there are more than 100 standards that were rejected too.

TG2 “Test methods” presented 6 standards for test methods that could go out for Formal Vote; 5 will go out for Formal Vote and one standard will have to wait a bit in order to create a “package of test methods” for the Asphalt Concrete with Bituminous Emulsions (ACBE). Two amendments for test method were discussed and agreed as well as two draft standards that can go out for CEN Enquiry now. Also three test methods for ABCE were discussed.

Task Group 3 “Product standards” presented the latest draft of prEN 13108-31 Asphalt Concrete with Bituminous Emulsion (ACBE). This standard was discussed and it will come back during the next CEN TC227 WG1 meeting when the re-marks made during this meeting are incorporated in the new draft of the standard. The goal is that this new product standard will go out for CEN Enquiry mid-2017 together with the 3 new draft test methods.

Task Group 4 “Conformity Assessment Standards” is taking care of the “Product Type Assessment” and the “Factory Production Control” of the new prEN 13108-31 ACBE.

The next CEN TC227 WG1 meeting will be held on 4 and 5 May 2017 in the Belfast.

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CEN TC227 WG6

CEN TC227 WG6 “Sustainability”, which had its latest meeting on 20 November 2016 in Berlin, is supporting CEN TC 227 in all matters relating to sustainability of CEN/TC 227 products, including the release of dangerous substances (RDS) to the environment and environmental product declarations (EPD).

CEN TC227 WG6 got a preliminary work item from TC 227 to start working on core Product Category Rules (PCR) for all TC 227 products. The format of the WG 6 PCR document was discussed and it was agreed that it would be better to prepare separate parts for each material group (e.g., Asphalt Mixtures, Surface dressings, Slurry seals, Unbound aggregate). Each TC 227 working group, WG 1, 2, 3 and 4, will have one, or more, parts. The level of detail within each part may vary.

The EAPA Guidance Document for preparing Product Category Rules (PCR) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for Asphalt Mixtures was discussed.It was agreed that the convenor would use this document to produce a first draft of the new WG6 document on PCR for asphalt mixtures.The type of document that will be created in the end was also considered. The Preliminary Work Item refers to a CEN Technical Report, but there were arguments for a European Norm (EN), or a Technical Specification (TS) document. It was agreed that the document would be prepared as an EN but that the final decision would be made later.

The next meeting of CEN TC227 WG6 will be 18 May 2017 in Berlin.

CEN TC336

On 30 and 31 May CEN TC336 had a meeting in Prague.TC336 agreed to create an Ad-Hoc group to review the TC structure.There were reports from WG1 “Bituminous binders for paving” and WG2”Fluxed bitumen and bituminous emulsions”. The option for the inclusion in hENs of spe-cial bitumen for paving applications was deleted from the CEN/TC 336 work program. The next TC336 meeting will be held on 14 and 15 November 2017.

CEN TC336 WG1

CEN TC 336 WG1 “Bituminous Binders for Paving” had its 31st meeting in Paris on 20 and 21 September 2016.

In this meeting the progress of the revision of EN 14023 “Polymer Modified Bin-der” was reported and certain items / comments were discussed.Also the progress of the revision of EN 12591 “Paving Grade Bitumen” was dis-cussed. It was agreed to request a nine months extension of the date of delivery of an updated draft of EN 12591 for Formal Vote. The responses to the comments received during the CEN Enquiry of this standard will be discussed in WG1 in March 2017. During the WG1 meeting also the revision of several test methods were discussed.The WG1 members were asked to prepare their views on Low Shear Viscosity (LSV), Zero shear viscosity (ZSV) and Fracture Toughness. It was suggested to create an expert group to proceed addressing the low tem-perature properties of bituminous binders. A proposal will be discussed in March 2017.

The Eurobitume Data Collection report has recently been updated with additional data sets received from CEN members. The CEN Data Collection report is now available.

The next CEN TC227 WG1 meeting will be held on 14 and 15 March 2017.

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CEN TC336 WG1 TG5

Task Group 5 of CEN TC336 WG1 is dealing with the revision of EN 14023 “Polymer Modified Binder”. The Task Group had a meeting on 6 July and on 16 November. During these two meetings the comments received in the 5-year review process of EN 14023 were discussed and answers to the comments received were formulated. The goal is to have a more performance related PMB standard and TG5 will create a draft proposal for a new EN 14023 that will go out for CEN Enquiry when approved by CEN TC336 WG1 and CEN TC336.The next TG5 meeting will be held on 8 February 2017.

CEN TC336 WG1 TG6

Task Group 6 of CEN TC336 WG1 is dealing with the revision of EN 12591 “Paving Grade Bitumen”. This Task Group had a meeting on 22 November 2017. During this meeting all the comments received during the CEN Enquiry were dis-cussed and responses to the comments received were formulated. Some comments will have to be discussed in the next CEN TC336 WG1 meeting in March 2017. When all the responses to the comments received are agreed in CEN TC336 WG1 they will be send to CEN TC336 together with the new draft of EN 12591. After approval of CEN TC336 the draft standard will go out for Formal Vote.

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ring groups started working and preparing the floor for the organising committees by signing

venue contracts, booking hotels and giving input for the content of the events.

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OTHER MEETINGS & EVENTS MIRIAM WORKSHOP

On 19 May 2016 the workshop “Rolling Resistance in Road Infrastructure Asset management” of the MIRIAM research project was held in Belgian Road research Centre (BRRC) in Sterrebeek. MIRIAM is the acronym for “Models for rolling re-sistance In Road Infrastructure Asset Management Systems”.The overall objective of the MIRIAM project is to develop, provide and dissemi-nate a strategic tool for achieving energy saving and CO2-reducing goals for decision makers to employ to road design and maintenance.After the welcome introduction of Johan Maeck (BRRC), Adewole Adesiyun (FEHRL) presented FEHRL’s perspective of pavements with low rolling resistance, where he also mentioned the call of FEHRL, EUPAVE, EAPA and Eurobitume on the European Commission and/or road authorities to encourage Member States and road authorities (CEDR) to consider the CO2 effect in their road maintenance plans.Pieter De Winne (Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer) presented CEDR’s perspective of pavements with low rolling resistance. John Harvey (University of California, Davis) addressed Rolling resistance studies in California and implementation to date. He expected that the models they are developing now will be ready for day to day use for network and project decisions in 2020.Jurek Ejsmont (Technical University Gdansk) presented the Road texture influence on tyre rolling resistance. Åsa Lindgren and Robert Karlsson (Swedish Transport Administration) spoke about the Swedish challenges regarding rolling resistance. Their goal is to optimise pavement maintenance where Rolling Resistance aspects are included and balanced among other goals. One of the conclusions of the panel discussion was: if you have to replace a surface layer, use a new surface layer with lower Rolling Resistance.The workshop showed that a lot of research has been done and the results are not always in line with each other. Regarding the measuring technique(s) some harmonisation and standardisation is needed.

The presentations are available on the MIRIAM-website www.miriam-CO2.net under ‘activities”.

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John Harvey Johan Maeck

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ACEA EVENT ON REDUCING CO2 TOGETHER

On 26 May 2016 EAPA Director Dr Carsten Karcher participated in a workshop to mark the launch of the ‘Joining forces to tackle the road transport CO2 chal-lenge’ report that was prepared by ACEA (European Automobile Manufacturer’s Association) together with other stakeholders e.g. EAPA.

The prime purpose of the workshop was to present conclusions to the European Commission (EC) and allow the EC to raise questions. Therefore, Artur Runge-Met-zger, Director International and Climate Strategy, DG CLIMA and other members of the EC attended the meeting together with altogether 20 people.

For each session (fuel options, ITS and the connected car, road infrastructure, eco-driving) the stakeholders that were involved in the preparation of the report gave a brief statement on how their specific topic contributes to a comprehensive approach to reducing CO2 emissions from road transport. Each session was follo-wed by an open discussion that was conducted by a moderator. In the infrastructu-re session, Carsten Karcher gave a statement for the asphalt industry highlighting e.g. that smooth and well maintained asphalt roads reduce fuel consumption and therefore CO2 emissions.

This report can be downloaded on the ACEA website: http://www.acea.be/pu-blications/article/report-joining-forces-to-tackle-the-road-transport-co2-challenge.

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ACEA Event on Reducing CO2 together



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NEPSI 10TH ANNIVERSARY

On 16 June 2016 a Conference in Brussels gathering 90 participants has taken stock of the achievements of the NEPSI (European Network on Silica) Agreement ten years after its signature.

EAPA secretariat participated to exchange with other industries to learn from their experience to protect workers and to exchange information.

In a video message EU Commissioner Thyssen repeated the European Commis-sion’s support to the NEPSI Agreement, qualifying it as “… a true testament of ‘EU-level social dialogue in action …”. The signature of this Agreement was a crucial step to enhance worker protection across the European Union. “ … it has and still is complementing European legislation in the field of worker protection.”

For more information go to http://www.nepsi.eu/news/video-illustrating-nepsi-10th-anniversary-conference.

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CONSTRUCTION & DEMOLITION WASTE FINAL WORKSHOP

On 30 June the Final Validation Workshop of Construction & Demolition (C&D) Waste was held in Brussels under the title “Towards a Common Construction & Demolition Waste Management Protocol”.This Protocol fits within the ambitious Circular Economy Package that the Euro-pean Commission has adopted in December 2015.

The initiative for this Protocol was launched by the European Commission (EC) – DG GROW, and the project is built on the active participation and contribution from industry and national government officials according to the tripartite princi-ple of the Construction 2020 strategy.

The goal of the EU Construction & Demolition Waste Management Protocol is to boost the demand for C&D recycled materials. The overall aim of this Protocol is to increase confidence in the C&D waste management process and the trust in the quality of C&D recycled materials.The protocol is addressing Construction & Demolition Waste and in this protocol asphalt is only mentioned as a material that can be reused.

The non-binding guidelines address:• Waste identification, source separation and collection;• Waste logistics;• Waste processing;• Quality management;• Appropriate policy and framework conditions.

During the workshop the key elements of the report were presented for adoption. Also, the dissemination was discussed. When the report is finished, the dissemina-tion will start and a conference is being planned for June 2017.

The final version of the EU Construction & Demolition Waste Protocol was publis-hed on 9 November 2016 and can be downloaded at:http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/newsroom/cf/itemdetail.cfm?i-tem_id=8983

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ACEM EVENT

On 7th September 2016 the 12th ACEM (European Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers) Conference was held in Brussels under the title “The Safe Ride to the Future”.

Motorcycles compose only 2% of the vehicle fleet but account for 22% of the fatalities. Therefore safety was here the most important item discussed at this conference.

The ACEM conference explored key is-sues around motorcycle safety such as the benefits of advanced vehicle tech-nology for Powered-Two Wheelers, the need to ensure that all road users have adequate behaviours on the road and the importance of inclusive motorcycle safety plans, particularly at national level. Also the road infrastructure itself was addressed.

MEP Inés Ayala Sender mentioned in the first session that the infrastructure is degrading since the economic cri-sis and it is becoming a big concern. She mentioned: We need better infra-structure and new roads that are being build according to the newest safety standards. We know how to improve infrastructure.

Road infrastructure is at the core of road safety, especially for motorcyclists. Well maintained roads are important for the Powered Two-Wheel (PTW) drivers because badly executed patching of

MEP Inés Ayala Sender

potholes and cracks in (asphalt) pave-ments results in a greater accident risk (See ACEM Publication “Guidelines for PTW – Safer Road Design in Euro-pe” http://goo.gl/6uYe1D). On pour maintained roads the motorcyclists have to pay more attention to the road surface to avoid dangerous areas and therefore they have less time to look at the traffic around them.

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First ACEM session

Second ACEM session



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CEN WORKSHOP AGREEMENT “SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FOR ROADS”

On 22 and 23 September 2016 there was a meeting of the LCE4ROADS project to finalise the text of the CEN Workshop Agreement “Sustainability Indicators for Roads” in Leiden (The Netherlands).

In the LCE4ROADS project “Life Cycle Engineering approach to develop a no-vel EU-harmonized sustainability certification system for cost-effective, safer and greener road infrastructures” (an FP7 project) it was decided to create a CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) “Sustainability indicators for roads”. A CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) is an agreement developed and approved in a CEN Workshop. It will be published by CEN and it involves no obligation at national level.

After the meeting in April 2016, where the second draft was discussed, an up-dated version was created and sent to CEN to start a public consultation. All the comments received in this public consultation process were addressed in the meeting in Leiden and the draft workshop agreement was modified according to the decisions made.

This Workshop agreement provides a set of 21 indicators that can be used for the sustainability assessment of roads with a suggested deployment procedure. Its aim is to support National Road Authorities, private operators, contractors and engineering companies when considering sustainability for roads. The CEN work-shop Agreement has been made available by CEN in November 2016 as CWA 17089:2016 “Indicators for the sustainability assessment of roads” and can be obtained at the National Standardisation Bodies.

More information about the LCE4ROADS can be found at: http://ecolabelproject.eu/

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CEN WORKSHOP “STANDARDS FOR CIRCULAR ECONOMY”

On 8 September 2016 a CEN Workshop was held regarding “Standards for circular economy” with a focus on Waste management and secondary raw ma-terials.The workshop was attended by more than 100 participants. In the morning key-no-te speakers gave examples of recycling and re-use of products. The customer trust was seen as one of the biggest barriers to recycling.

In the afternoon there were breakout sessions to identify the needs and opportuni-ties for standardisation that increase the effective use of secondary raw materials as well as for waste management. The input received will be used to shape the CEN – CENELEC standardisation roadmap for circular economy for waste and secondary raw materials.

Looking at our product asphalt, it is 100% reusable and with this property we are a perfect example for the Circular Economy. We can really close the circle and we already have a European standard for Reclaimed asphalt.

The presentations and video shown can be downloaded at:http://www.cencenelec.eu/News/Brief_News/Pages/TN-2016-038.aspx


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GERMAN ROAD AND TRANSPORT CONGRESS

From 28 to 30 September 2016, the German Forschungsgesellschaft für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen (FGSV) organised its national congress on roads and traf-fic under the headline “Components for Sustainability in Road Engineering and Transportation”. Around 800 Participants came to Bremen to meet and discuss various topics. 130 exhibitors presented the industry amongst them the EAPA members Sasol Waxes and ASTEC. The programme consisted of eight sessions, that presented parts of the spectrum of the FGESV working groups and their work in the past two years. The presentations on asphalt pavements covered durability, performance behaviour and layer bonding. Road maintenance and the sustaina-bility of road construction were the other topics related to asphalt. Two sessions were reserved for road financing and future of mobility.

For more information, the abstracts of the presentations and pictures go to http://www.fgsv-kongress.de/.

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Former EAPA president Dieter Schüler and Carsten Karcher

Plamena Plachkova-Dhzurova, EAPA TC Chairman Knut Johannsen and Carsten Karcher

Gallery of people hhonored with the Lüer-Nadel for their successful activities in the field of asphalt

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ROSANNE PROJECT FINAL EVENT AND RELEASE OF POSITION PAPER ON CO2 SAVINGS

The ROSANNE final event was held on 11 October 2016 at project member BR-RC’s research centre at Sterrebeek, Belgium for more than 90 interested people.

ROSANNE is a collaborative project in the Seventh EU Framework Programme, which aims at developing/harmonising measurement methods for skid resistance, noise emission and rolling resistance of road pavements as a preparation for standardisation.

Maria Cristina Marolda, Policy Officer, Research and Innovation in Directorate General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission opened the con-ference by giving a keynote in the field of Innovation and research activities.This keynote was followed by the launch of the joint FEHRL-EUPAVE-EAPA publi-cation on CO2 savings by maintaining and upgrading roads (see separate article in this newsletter). Dr Carsten Karcher presented the position paper in behalf of EAPA together with Karl Downey of EUPAVE.

In the following three sessions, the Work Package leaders presented all the detai-led project results followed by a discussion with the participants. The conference was supported by a small exhibition with testing devices of the project.

For more information, the presentations, and photos go to http://rosanne-project.eu/.

1ST EUROPEAN ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE CONGRESS

From 18 to 20 October 2016 the 1st European Road Infrastructure Congress or-ganised by the European Union Road Federation (ERF) and the Road Safety Mar-kings Association (RSMA) was held in the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, UK.More than 400 delegates attended the congress during the four days, which was accompanied by an exhibition.

The conference had three main themes Delivery of the Road Infrastructure, Road Safety, and Adaptation of the Road Infrastructure in which the sessions were struc-tured. Each parallel session had 4 to 5 presentations. EAPA is ERF member since the beginning of this year. EAPA Director Dr Carsten Karcher attended the ERIC 2016 and gave a presentation with the title “Innova-tions for more durable and resilient roads“ in the session “Adaptation – A more durable and resilient network”.

For more information, go to http://www.eric2016.eu/ or check the twitter-hashtag #ERICLeeds16.


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Opening session at ERIC 2016

Booth of ERF with J Diez at ERIC exhibition

Booth of EAPA Member Sasol Waxes with M Simms (left) and Sasol Team

Auditorium of one Parallel Session “Adaptation – A more durable and resilient network”

INTERESTING WEBSITESGREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CRITERIA FOR ROAD

DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

The revised EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) Criteria for Road Design, Con-struction and Maintenance are now available on-line. These criteria aim at facilita-ting public authorities the purchase of products, services and works with reduced environmental impacts. The use of the criteria is voluntary.

The criteria are formulated in such a way that they can be, if deemed appropriate by the individual authority, integrated into its tender documents.

The EU GPP criteria developed for the product group “Road Design, Construction and Maintenance” are supported by a Procurement Practice Guidance document that provides orientation on how to effectively integrate these GPP criteria into the procurement process.

The accompanying Technical Report provides further details on the reasons for selecting these criteria and references for further information.

On http://ec.europa.eu/environment/gpp/index_en.htm in the text under the headline “10 June 2016” you can find: Road Design, Construction and Maintenance• Technical Background Report• EU GPP criteria (published in 2016) (other language versions will follow soon)• Procurement practice guidance document

ASPHALT PROMOTION WEBSITES IN THE USA

In the USA they have 3 websites promoting asphalt. These are:www.DriveAsphalt.org www.AsphaltRoads.org www.AsphaltFACTS.org

The websites are an initiative of the Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA), which is a partnership of the Asphalt Institute, National Asphalt Pavement Association and the State Asphalt Pavement Associations.

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MPA VIDEOS

On https://www.youtube.com/user/MineralProducts1 you can find various vi-deos of the UK EAPA member Mineral Products Association (MPA).

On https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXu4cRX3643cEz3H6dnBxOBGr-HeRMRf8s you will find a video of MPA Asphalt called “Tomorrows Roads”.

UPCOMING CONGRESSES

4TH MESAT CONFERENCE

On May 1-3 May 2017 the 4th MESAT (Middle East Society of Asphalt Techno-logist) Conference will be held on Kish Island, Iran.

MESAT is an association of academics, practitioners and managers of asphalt roads serving as a technical forum to share knowledge and develop effective methods for the delivery and mainte-nance of asphalt roads in the Middle East. MESAT has close ties with asphalt re-searchers in North America and Euro-pe and is part of a global network of scientific societies working to create an environmentally friendly and sustaina-ble asphalt road infrastructure.

More information about the MESAT Conference can be found at www.mesat2017.org.

IICTG

On 26 to 28 September 2017 the International Intelligent Construction Technologies Group(IICTG) 2017 conference will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The theme is “ICT (Intelligent Construction Technologies) – Past and Future”.

This conference will cover the history and future development of intelligent construction technologies (ICT). Other main topics will include intelligent com-paction (IC), Paver-Mounted Thermal Profiling (PMTP) and data manage-ment, etc. The language for this confe-rence is English.

More information and information re-garding submission of abstracts of pre-sentations can be found at: http://www.iictg.org/conferences/


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AV’17

On 28 and 29 November 2017 the AV-17 - Conference on Asphalt Pa-vements 2017 will be held in České Budějovice (Czech Republic). More information about the conference, the conference themes and the submission of papers for this conference can be found at: http://www.asfaltove-vozo-vky.cz/en/.

E&E EVENT

On 14 and 15 June 2016 the (first) Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Event 2018 will be held in Berlin.

E&E CONGRESS

The 7th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Con-gress will be held on 12 – 14 May 2020 in Madrid, Spain.

EVENTS LIST 2017

Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting USA

CEN TC336 WG1 TG5 meeting in BrusselsCEN TC154 WG13 meeting in London

EAPA AP&EM Group meeting in Paris

DAV Asphalt Seminar, Willingen EAPA ExCo and Directors’ Group meeting in BrusselsJoint EAPA – Eurobitume ExCo meetingCEN TC336 WG1 meeting

EAPA HSE Committee meeting in BerlinEAPA TC meeting in BerlinFEHRL Infrastructure Research Meeting 2017 (FIRM17) in Brussels

CEN TC227 WG1 meeting in UK

CEN TC227 WG6 meeting in BerlinCEN TC227 Chairman’s Panel Meeting

EAPA GCA meeting in Paris

EAPA Symposium in Paris

CEN TC227 meeting in Cyprus

17th AAPA International Conference in MelbourneGAPA meeting in Melbourne

CEN TC336 WG1 meeting

EAPA HSE Committee meeting in ParisEAPA TC meeting in Paris

CEN TC227 WG1 meeting in StockholmCEN TC336 meeting in BrusselsAV-17 - Conference on Asphalt Pavements 2017 in České Budějovice (CZ)

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6-8 March7 March 8 March

14-15 March

5 April 6 April

5-7 April

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31 May

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13-16 Aug17 Aug

19-20 Sept

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Egbert Beuving & Carsten KarcherWindow StoriesEgbert BeuvingCarsten Karcher Kamil RodingerPalacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid

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wishes you a Merry Christmas & a successful 2017

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MPA - Mineral Products Association

NCC AB

DAV - Deutscher Asphalt Verband e.V.

Asefma Asfaltindustrien

EBA HAPA - Hungarian Asphalt Pavement Association

Infra Contractors’ Association

USIRF - Routes de France ZAS - Združenje asfalterjev

Slovenije

Peab Asphalt AB

Sdružení pro výstavbu silnic Praha

MEMBERS

ASMUD - Turkish Asphalt Contractors Association

Eesti Asfaldiliit IAPA - Irish Asphalt Pavement Association

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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

ABZ-1 Ammann Group Antigo - MHB Breakers Ltd.

Arizona Chemical

BTC Europe GmbHBenninghoven Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.

CFF

ASTEC

DuPont CZ s.r.o.

CRH plc.

Genan Honeywell

MeadWestvacoMarini Ruthman Sasol Wax

Turkish Petroleum Refineries Co.

Volvo Construction Equipment

Vögele Vialit

Kraton Polymers Nederland B.V.

J. Rettenmaier & Söhne GmbH & Co

ICL Performance Products LP

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Documents

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