Technical committees

Significant for the company’s success is the multitude of competent and experienced employees. Their expert opinion and collaboration in many national and international road constructions and transportation infrastructure committees is appreciated. Here a list of committees and research groups where TPA employees are active members:

Current representations in technical committees:

Austria:

FSV Forschungsgesellschaft Straße, Schiene und Verkehr
· FSV research body Road, Rail and traffic
· Task force Quality
· Task force layer and layer bonding
· Task force asphalt granulate
· Task force technical contacts requirements
· Task force technology for unbound layers in road constructions
· Task force Asphalt layers in rural road construction
· Task force pavement materials
· Task force mineral criteria
· Task force registration of road condition and estimation

AUSTROLAB
· Transportation infrastructures

GESTRATA - body for maintenance of road engineering with asphalt
· Body building seminar
· Body course instructor

ÖNI – Austrian institute for standards
· ON-K 044 petroleum bitumen
· ON-K 051 natural rock
· ON-K 210 road and airport building
· ON-K 210.01 Bitumen bound mixture
· ON-AG 210.06 benchmark and release of dangerous substance from road construction
production
· ON-AG 023-01 concept, description and classification
· ON-AG 023-02 exploration and sampling
· ON-AG 023-02 test in laboratory and on building site
· ON-AG 051-08 Bordering and paving stones
· ON-AG 051-09 natural rock. Coordination with CEN/TC 154
· ON-AG 051-09 natural rock. Coordination with CEN/TC 246
· ON-AG 210-04 unbound and hydraulic bound mixes
· ON-AG 210-03 surface area Characteristics

Germany:

FGSV: Forschungsgesellschaft für Strassen- und Verkehrswesen

Working group 4 infrastructure management
· AA 4.3 surface area Characteristics
· AK 4.3.3 roughness
· AK 4.3.5 acoustic Characteristics of road surface
· AK 4.6.1 benchmark of standardized building constructions

Working group 5 Earthworks
· AA 5.3 earth conditioning
· AK 5.3.1 Immobilization of contiminants
· AK 5.3.2 temporarily liquefied filling materials from earth
· AA 5.7 test technique
· AK 5.7.1 approach for conformation of compaction
· AK 5.1.1 exploration of earth and rock

Working group 6 rock granulation, unbound constructions
· AA 6.1 rock granulation

Working group 7 Asphalt constructions
· LA 7 executive committee asphalt constructions
· AA 7.1 technical contracts requirements (leader)
· AA 7.1.2 quality assurance
· AK 7.2.1 bitumen and modified bitumen
· AA 7.3 construction methods
· AK 7.3.3 Innovations (leader)
· AK 7.3.7 temperature drawdown
· AK 7.5.4 thin layer
· AA 7.4 building technology
· AK 7.6.4 laboratory technique
· AA 7.7 bridge pavement
· AA 8.4 surface area
· AK 7.1 pavement for concrete bridges
· AK 7.2 pavements for steal bridges
· AA 7.8 re-use of asphalt
· AK 7.8.1 Quality criteria’s

Working group 8 concrete constructions
· AK 8.1.2 TP concrete
· AA 8.2 building materials

bga: Beratungsstelle Gussasphaltanwendung
· Technical committee

DAV / DAI: Deutscher Asphaltverband / Deutsches Asphaltinstitut
· Research group asphalt technique
· Scientifically advisory body DAI

DGGT: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechnik
· AK 2.3 asphalt building constructions in hydraulic engineering and Geo technique

DIN: Deutsche Institut für Normung
· NA 010-05-01 AA Asphalt
· NA 005-02-96 AA Sealing concrete for bridges
· NA 005-10-08 AA surface characteristic
· NA 005-10-60 AA railway stones

DIBt: Deutsches Institut für Bautechnik
· AK semi rigid wearing courses

Forschungsvereinigung Strassenwesen, Erd- und Tunnelbau e.V. (SETAC)

Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie
· Discussion group quality bitumen
· contact person of STRABAG AG for the department technical politic der Féderation de l’Industrie Européenne de la Construction (FIEC)
(Association of the European building industry)
· AA VOB/C DIN 18317 transportation infrastructures works - pavement layers from asphalt (chairman)

MIRO - Bundesverband Mineralische Rohstoffe
· AA application technique, standards

Poland:

Poland association asphalt roads PSWNA – PAPA
· Working group Asphalt mixture
· Working group bitumen emulsion

Working group GREN (research institute for roads and bridges IBDim)

POLLAB Club of Poland laboratories

Hungary:

Association of the Hungarian road, bridge and civil engineering laboratories

Hungarian road research body

Hungarian concrete association