Sustainable Pavement
Preservation: slurry seal - chip seal - crack treatment

With texting and email, cell phones and global positioning systems, digital cameras, social networking, teleconferencing and 24-hour round-the-clock access to the internet from your home, your workplace, and your automobile, the world continues to become a smaller place. But nothing replaces the human contact, the face-to-face technology transfer, the exchange of thoughts and ideas, provided only by gathering like minds in a common venue. And that venue in 2010 will be the 7th ISSA World Congress on October 13, held jointly with the 5th World Congress on Emulsions, October 12-14, in Lyon, France.

Through the years, the World Congress on Emulsions has proven itself to be the best technical exchange conference around the world for bringing together leading emulsion technologists and researchers from the fields of cosmetics, pharmacology, food, and highways with key asphalt innovators worldwide. The 7th ISSA World Congress will build upon and broaden that audience to look further into the concept of pavement preservation as it relates to tightened budgets, global warming and the environment, all in the face of keeping the world’s most efficient transportation system, our roads and highways, in peak operating condition.

It should not be forgotten that Micro Surfacing was developed in Europe. And as Europe accelerates its CO₂ legislation, and increasingly emphasizes the “green” aspects of pavement management, it should also not be forgotten that micro surfacing represents one of the lowest carbon footprints of all paving techniques.

The 7th ISSA World Congress will also examine new technologies in the applications of chip sealing and crack treating, disciplines into which ISSA expanded its scope a few years ago. Often taken for granted due to their wide acceptance around the world, new chemistry and new equipment still bring exciting and adaptable elements into these pavement preservation tools.

With your support and participation the 7th ISSA World Congress, in conjunction with the 2010 World Congress on Emulsions will be an international gathering of experts not to be missed. We look forward to seeing you there.

Andrew Crow, ISSA President