1. VBW Dutch Asphalt Pavement Association Subdivision of Dutch Construction and Infrastructuur Federation AAPA 2012 StudyTour

2. 20 contractors 40 mixing plants 9 million tonnes per year

3. Topics - Promoting application of asphalt - Technical specs and regulations Technical Committee - Environmental policy and regulations Committee on Environment

4. Technical specs and regulations - European harmonisation - CE-marking - Introduction of functional specifications Marshall properties

5. Environmental policy and regulations - Energy consumption mixing plants - Emissions and ETS - Recycling - Dangerous Substances - Life Cycle Analyses - Green procurement - Warm Asphalt

6. Long term aggreement on Energy efficiency Since 1995 - New program 2005 – 2020 - Goal: 2% per year improvement energy eff. - Every mixing plant: 4 year program 2013 - 2016 - Yearly monitoring - Energy management system

7. trends

8. 250 260 270 280 290 300 310 320 330 340 350 1998200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011 MJ / ton asfalt Trend variatie SEV 1998-2011 voor de sector = -1,6% per jaar Trend variatie SEV 1998-2011 voor de Top 6 = +0,2% per jaar TOP 6 sector average