Work Programme 2019/2020

1. General tasks

•Coordination of asphalt pavement field in Slovenia

•Collaboration with members - individuals and companies

•Collaboration with similar organizations: EAPA, Gestrata (A), DRC, IZS, road associations, FSV (A), DAV (D), HAD (CRO) and Putar (SERB)

•Ensuring founds needed for the activities of the Association

•Managing of activities of all Association´s bodies

•Organization of meetings of Committees (managing, Supervising, Technical, HSE, Isolation Section, Waterproofing section,companies, organizational committees)

•Comunication through the Association´s website

•Cooperation with contractors, managers and the local community

2. Organization of technical meetings and education/training sessions

• 17th Colloquium on Asphalt, bitumen and Pavements (November 2019)

•Technical meetings (May 2020)

• Interational Road Maintenance Day (April 2020)

• Education and Training Sessions (March and April 2020)

3. Basic and development activities (improvement upon existing and new technologies)

• Pavements as the key element of roads

• Digitalization in production and in installation of asphalt mixtures

•Stimulating Technologies for sustainable development:
   -the low temperature (warm) asphalt mixtures
  -recycling
  -asphalts for noise reduction
  -high modulus asphalts

4. Preparation of material, publication and Bulletin

• Organizational and technical bodies of ZAS
• ZAS website
• Education/Training Sessions
• From Assembly to Assembly bulletin
• Expert meetings

5. Preparation of technical literature (2019–2020)

• Asphalt advantages

• Quality assurance and quality control

• Preparation of new standards

• Recommendations for individual actors in the asphalt pavement industry (contractors, importers, manufacturers,...)

6. Professional meetings in 2019–2020

•  29.5.2019

  ZAS – 24th General Assembly ZAS and round table, Brezovica, Slovenija 

• 6. 6. 2019

   EAPA Symposium, Pariz, France

•  12. - 14. 6. 2019

   7th International conference bituminous mixtures and pavements, Thessaloniki, Grece

•  13. – 14. 6.  2019

    2. Regionalni stručni seminar Niskogradnja i saobraćaj 2019, Beograd, Serbia

•  18. - 21. 8. 2019

   18th AAPA International Flexible Pavements Conference & Exhibition 2019, Sydney, Australia

•  06. 10. 2019

   26th World road congress, Abu Dhabi, Emirates

•  26. – 27. 11. 2019

   Conference Asphalt Pavements 2019, Česke Budejovice, Czech republic

•  27. - 29. 11. 2019:

    ZAS - 17. Colloquium on Asphalt, Bitumen and Pavements, Bled, Slovenia

•  02. - 05. 2. 2020

   NAPA Annual Meeting, Maui, Hawaii, ZDA

•  12.  – 14. 02. 2020

   DAV – Deutche Asphalttage, Berchtesgaden, Germany

•  March 2020

    ZAS - Education and training for asphalt workers, Slovenia

•  2. April 2020

   EAPA, Asefma, ZAS,… – International Road Maintenance Day 2020

•  12. 5. – 14. 5. 2020

   7th EAPA & Eurobitume Congress 2020, Madrid, Spain