News

ZAG invites the Slovenian road sector to a DIRECT-MAT seminar at ZAG in Ljubljana on 9 March 2011. For more information please contact Karmen Fifer Bizjak, ZAG.

SGI and ISCOWA announce the Call for abstracts to WASCON 2012 - the 8th International Conference on the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials. Abstracts are due 31 May 2011. The conference will be held in Gothenburg (Sweden), 30 May to 1 June 2012. Read more at the conference website here.

SGI and VTI invite the Swedish road sector to a DIRECT-MAT seminar in Stockholm on 9 March 2011. For more information please contact Maria Arm, SGI or Gunilla Franzén, VTI.

The conference “EU Waste Management 2010“ was held on the 8-9^th of June in Cologne (Germany) and Mr Konrad Mollenhauer, TUBs, made an oral presentation of the DIRECT-MAT project. There is a link to the conference program here.

The conference “Transport Research Arena Europe” was held 7–10 June in Brussels (Belgium) and FEHRL promoted the DIRECT-MAT project. There is a link to the conference website here.

The project was presented at the 16^th IRF World Meeting that was held in Lisbon, Portugal 25–28 May, where Mrs Maria de Lurdes Antunes, LNEC, presented a poster. An introductory article entitled “Sharing knowledge and field practice for recycling road and road related materials: the Direct-Mat project” is published in the conference proceedings. More information about the conference here.

A Slovenian version of the introductory article is published in the journal “Gradbeni vestnik”, a Slovenian magazine from the field of construction. The article is entitled “DIRECT-MAT Združevanje najboljših praks pri razgradnji in ponovni uporabi cestogradbenih materialov v Evropi“, and you will find it on pages 124–128 of No 59. There is a link to a summary here.

On February 15–16^th the SIMBA II EU South Africa Workshop took place in Cape Town and Gunilla Franzén VTI made an oral presentation of the DIRECT-MAT project. There is a link to the workshop program here and the presentation here.

On the 10^th of December, the DIRECT-MAT project was presented at the Dresdner Asphalttage in Dresden (Germany) by Mr Konrad Mollenhauer and Mrs Anita Blasl. The seminar was organised by TU Dresden and you can download information on the conference here. An introductory article is included in the proceedings.