SPENS Sustainable Pavements for European New Member States 6th Framework Programme Theme: Mobility & Transport, Safety & Security Started: 1 September 2006 Duration: 36 months Budget: 2.5m EUR The overall objective of this Specific Targeted Research Project was to search for materials and technologies for road pavement construction and rehabilitation that would: • Behave satisfactorily in a typical climate, • Have an acceptable environmental impact, • Be easy to incorporate within existing technologies, • Be cost-effective and easy to maintain. A quick overview of results and presentations given at the Final seminar in August 2009 are available on the SPENS web site. The detailed results of laboratory and field testing as well as final conclusions are fully presented in eleven project deliverables, also available on the SPENS web site. The printed Final report may be obtained from the FEHRL office or from the Coordinator. http://spens.fehrl.org Partners European Construction Technology Platform 4 th Conference, Brussels, November 24 – 25, 2009 European Construction Technology Platform European Construction Technology Platform 4 4 th th Conference, Brussels, November 24 Conference, Brussels, November 24 – – 25 25 , , 2009 2009 Project Coordinator Ms. Mojca Ravnikar Turk ZAG E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +386 (1) 28 04 393 Dimiceva 12 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia For More Information FEHRL - Blvd. de la Woluwe, 42 1200 Brussels, Belgium Phone: +32 2 775 82 45 Fax: +32 2 775 82 54 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://spens.fehrl.org Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (Slovenia) Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (Sweden) Institute for Transport Sciences KTI (Hungary) Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories (Belgium) Transport Research Center (Czech Republic) Highway Institute (Serbia) DDC Consulting & Engineering Ltd. (Slovenia) Austrian Institute of Technology (Austria) TUZA (Slovakia) Central Roads and Bridges Laboratory (Bulgaria) Institut Građevinarstva Hrvatske (Croatia) Technical Center of Estonian Roads Ltd (Estonia) Ferriere Nord (Italy)