Risk Management

Plan Now to Avoid a Shock in Resurfacing

From January 2008, the withdrawal of the existing British Standards for asphalt and their replacement with new European Standards represents a change for the road-surfacing sector on an unprecedented scale.

Because this change is driven by European directives, we do not have the option of staying as we are. Everyone will be legally obliged to switch.

But it is more fundamental than just a change of descriptions, as it involves a different approach to conformity and the introduction of CE marking.

New UK documents have been produced to facilitate implementation:

• A BSI Guidance Document - PD 6691 containing specifications for all existing UK materials in the new format.
• A British Standard for laying and compaction BS 594987.
• A full version of the 900 series of the specification.

December 2007