ISAP Technical Committee
Asphalt Pavements & Environment

Work Groups/WG 4 - New technologies and special environmental aspects for asphalt pavements

Work Group 4

New technologies and special environmental aspects for asphalt pavements

Chairman: Gordon Airey

Secretary: Ellie Fini

The mechanical performance as well as the environmental and sustainable issues associated with asphalt pavements are fundamentally linked to the micro- and nano-scopic, physico-chemical properties of the material. There is therefore an overriding need to consider technologies outside those currently associated with asphalt materials in order to enhance the positive role that asphalt materials play in meeting the demands on a modern society.

The activities of this WG are closely linked to the recycling activities of other ISAP technical committees as well as the activities of RILEM Technical Committee TC 231 NBM Nanotechnology-based Bituminous Materials and the newly formed RILEM Technical Committee TC CMB Chemo-Mechanical Characterization of Bituminous Materials.

The goals of WG 4 are to:

Establish an interface between pavement engineering and pavement materials and other disciplines, and

Identify the opportunities to produce asphalt paving type adhesives

from bio-mass and other sustainable sources.

The following areas/themes will be included in this WG:

Environmental & sustainable pavement technologies and materials,

Cross-disciplinary technologies and expertise,

Bio-binders and synthetic binders