ISCOWA is an international, non-profit organization which was formed in 1992 to promote and coordinate the exchange of information regarding
the environmental and technical aspects of construction with industrial
by-products. Industrial by-products include residues from industrial
processes, such as flue gas desulphurisation sludge, metallurgical
slags, power plant, and municipal and hazardous waste incinerator
fly ashes, bottom ashes, foundry sand, blasting grit, mine tailings,
as well as demolition wastes, soils contaminated by industrial
activities, and stabilized or treated residues and soils, etc.
ISCOWA members are involved with the utilization of these alternative
materials in construction applications, such as fill, roadbase,
cement, concrete, ceramic products, roofing materials, etc..
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The objectives and organization of ISCOWA are described formally in the Society Statutes of ISCOWA.
The ISCOWA Board is composed of:
ISCOWA's list of members can be viewed here. More information on ISCOWA's members is available for members of ISCOWA only, via the secretariat. This information may be used for personal use only.
The annual membership fee for ISCOWA is EUR 50. To become a member of ISCOWA you can use the Registration Form and send it to our secretariat.
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ISCOWA's members meeting
Has been held in Belgrade, May 30, 2006. At the members’ meeting was decided:
ISCOWA Award.
The winner of the fifth ISCOWA Award is the Annette Johnson, of EAWAG Switzerland. She received the award from Rein Eikelboom (VROM, The Netherlands), the winner of the fourth ISCOWA Award (2003). Ole Hjelmar (DHI, Denmark) won the third award (2000) and Dr. Hans van der Sloot (ECN, The Netherlands) won the second ISCOWA Award in 1997 and Prof. Joe Cabrera from the University of Leeds UK won the first Award in 1994. Who will be the sixth Award winner in 2009 ? Come to WASCON 2009 in Lyon, France and find out !
Nominations for the 6th ISCOWA Award can be forwarded to the chair of the new ISCOWA Award Jury: of Eawag, Switzerland (for emailing replace the words "please_no_spam" in her e-mail address with the name of her institute).
Joe Cabrera Memorial Award
The first Cabrera Memorial Award for the best paper presented by an author under 35 years of age, has been won by Paula Eskola of VTT Chemical Technology, Finland.
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Waste Management
Members of ISCOWA can get a fair good discount on the subscription price of Pergamon's Journal "Waste Management". More information on current subscription rates can be obtained from our secretariat. WASCON papers are published in a special issue of the Waste Management, e.g. papers of Wascon 2006 have been published in
volume 27, issue 10 (2007).
Mr. John Reindl of Dane County, WI has put together an annotated bibliography on recycling gypsum drywall. The bibliography can now be found on www.drywallrecycling.com under the section "Resources".
You may also take a look at web sites of organizations with objectives similar to ISCOWA's:
The Recycled Materials Resource Center is a partnership of the US Federal Highway Administration and the University of New Hampshire and aims at "Promoting the wise use of recycled materials in the highway environment".
The Waste e-mail subscription list provides a forum for scientific discussion for people involved in waste handling and re-use and the effects on the environment. For more information look at http://www.cedar.at/waste/about.html. The discussions are archieved and can be viewed and searched as well.
Agora21 is a site dedicated to sustainable development, especially in French speaking countries. The site has an interesting list of web-sites on 'Green Construction'.
ISWA: The International Solid Waste Association. ISCOWA is affiliated with ISWA.
AWMA: The Air & Waste Management Association.
IISD: The International Institute for Sustainable Development.
CIM -Centrum Immobilisatie (Dutch only)
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Future Conferences
June, 3-5, 2008
WasteEng08: 2nd International Conference on Engineering for Waste Valorisation, will be held in Patras, Greece. Deadline for abstracts in 1 November 2007. More information at www.wasteeng08.org.
June, 16, 2008
A one-day seminar on environmental assessment issues of contruction products, Lyon France. Organised by INSA-Lyon. More information soon.
October, 1-3, 2008
Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Materials Engineering will be held in Rome, Italy. The deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2008. More information at w3.uniroma1.it/ACEME/ .
June 3-5, 2009
WASCON 2009 will be held in Lyon, France on 3,4 and 5 June 2009. More information at this site in due time.
More conferences can be seen on:
Past Conferences
April, 23- 24, 2007
DustConf 2007: How to improve air quality. Has been held in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Organised by VROM (Dutch ministry for the Environment) and SenterNovem. Particulate Matter emissions (PM10, PM2.5) of Construction and Demolition activities are one of the targeted topics. More information at www.dustconf.org.
July 2-7, 2006
Advances in Cement and Concrete: Sustainability has been held in Davos, Switzerland. More information at www.engconfintl.org/6ahbody.html
June 12-14, 2006
First International Conference on Accelerated Carbonation for Environmental and Materials Engineering will be held in The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London, UK. It is organised by Cement and Concrete Science. Click here for the Final Programme.
May 29 - June 2, 2006
WASCON 2006 has been held in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. The Final Programme has been published. Click here for more information.
September 15-16, 2005
the 25th Cement and Concrete Science meeting, Royal Holloway College, University of London, United Kingdom. Abstracts can be submitted before 30 April 2005. Click here for more information (pdf 124 kB).
June 25-29, 2005
Workshop on Recycled Materials in Road and Airfield Pavements at the occasion of BCRA 2005 conference, will be held in Oslo, Norway. Click here for here for more information (pdf 396 kB).
May 9-12, 2005
Mechanisms and modelling of waste/cement interactions, Meiringen, Switzerland. Organised by EAWAG - EMPA - PSI. International workshop that focuses on the chemical understanding and the thermodynamic modelling of the processes responsible for the stabilisation of hazardous and radioactive wastes in cementitious systems. Deadline for abstracts is 21 January 2005. Click here for more information.
April, 12- 13, 2005
STAR: Stabilisation/Solidification Treatment and Remediation, Cambridge University, England, United Kingdom. Advances in S/S for Waste and Contaminated Land. Click here (conference leaflet) for more information (pdf 20kB). Or go to www-starnet.eng.cam.ac.uk
November, 9-11, 2004
RILEM 2004: Use of Recycled Materials in Buildings and Structures, Barcelona, Spain. Organised by Rilem and Materials Section of the Department of Building Engineering of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Deadline for abstracts is 15 January 2004. More information at http://congress.cimne.upc.es/rilem04
September, 26-29, 2004
REWAS 2004: Global Symposium on Recycling, Waste Treatment and Clean Technology. Madrid, Spain. Organised by Inasmet. More information can be found at www.inasmet.es/rewas04.
June 28 - July 1, 2004
Geotechnical and Environmental Aspaects of Waste Disposal Sites, International Symposium on Geotechnics Related to the Environment. Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. For more information visit www.GREEN2004.co.uk.
June 2-4, 2004
Sustainable Construction Waste Management, Singapore. Deadline for abstracts is 20 October 2003. For more information contact Mr. Gerald Kong; tel: +65.6447.6311 , fax: +65.6447.6300.
November 10-12, 2003
International Conference on Recycling Information Exchange and Industrial Practices. Bilbao, Spain. More information at: http://www.reccon03.org.
You can click here for the presentation on Construction and Demolition Waste recycling (pdf, 187kB).
October 20-22, 2003
2003 International Ash Utilization Symposium, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. The deadline for abstracts is 3 March 2003. See www.flyash.org for more information.
September 9-11, 2003
Advances in Waste Management and Recycling, Dundee, Scotland, UK. Organised by the University of Dundee, Concrete Technology Unit. Please note that the deadline for submission of abstracts is 31 December 2002. Look for more information on www.ctuevents.co.uk.
June 29 - July 1, 2003
Summer Workshop 2003 on "Beneficial Use, Sustainability, and Pollution Prevention in Transportation Infrastructure", Portsmouth, NH, USA. Organised by the Recycled Materials Resource Center, Univ. of New Hampshire. Abstracts are invited on beneficial use of recycled materials in transportation, sustainability, pollution prevention, and other topics of interest to the committee.
June 25, 2003
Recycling Contaminated Land- UK Industry Guidance for Stabilisation and Solidification. University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, UK.
Visit www.cassst.co.uk or contact Dr C.D.Hills for more details.
June 4-6, 2003
WASCON 2003. Waste Materials in Construction, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain. Has been organised by INASMET. More information can be obtained from the conference website at www.inasmet.es/wascon2003. Click here for the pdf file (808 kB)of the final program (use right mouse button and select "save target as" to download). A CD-rom with papers presented at the conference and much more information can be ordered from ISCOWA for only € 50. Click here for more information.
May 12-16, 2003
Consoil 2003: 8th International Conference on Contaminated Soil., Gent, Belgium. Has been organised by TNO/FZK and OVAM. See www.consoil.de for more information.
November 13-15, 2002
Green Building Conference and Exposition, Austin Texas, USA. An estimated 2,000 professionals from across the building industry in the U.S. and overseas have gathered at this annual "meeting place" for the green building community. For additional information please visit the US Green Building
Council website (www.usgbc.org), or call +1.607.277.6240 x251
November 5-11, 2002
Challenges of concrete construction, Dundee, Scotland, UK. Organised by the University of Dundee. In this 6-day event (incl. one weekend) Sustainable Concrete Construction and Reuse of Materials are among the major topics. For more information please contact Prof. R.K. Dhir tel: +44.1382.344347, fax: +44.1382.345524/344816, or look at http://www.dundee.ac.uk/civileng/ctucongress/welcome.htm.
September 23-25, 2002
Sustainable Building 2002, Oslo, Norway. Organised by The Norwegian EcoBuild Programme and the Municipality of Oslo.
April 17, 2002
Recycling Contaminated Land with Cement - Issues Facing Stakeholders in the UK, University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime, United Kingdom. This conference is the second in a series addressing the use of stabilisation/solidification technology in the remediation of contaminated land. This conference is of particular interest to stakeholders of contaminated land and developers, consultants, engineers and representatives from local authorities. Further information at http://cassst.co.uk or from Marilyn Croucher tel: +44.208 331 9800
November 13-15, 2001
Beneficial Use of Recycled Materials in Transportation Applications, Washington DC, USA. Organized by The University of New Hampshire's Recycled Materials Resource Center. The conference programme is now available. For registration click here. For more information please contact Dr. Warren Chester, tel: +1.631.499.1085, fax: +1.631.499.1129, or look at http://www.rmrc.unh.edu/RMRCEvents/DC-2001.asp.
October 22-24 2001
2001 International Ash Utilization Symposium. Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Organised by the University of Kentucky. See http://www.flyash.org/2001/home01.html for more information.
March 21-22, 2001
International air pollution conference on NOx / N2O control technologies, NOxCONF 2001, Paris, France. Organised by Ademe and InfoMil. More information is available on http://www.infomil.nl/NOx
March 13-15, 2001
6th Int. HCH & Pesticides Forum, Poznan, Poland. More information is available at http://hjem.get2net.dk/HCH-Pesticides/.
November 23-24, 2000
CIB2000 -Construction and Environment, São Paulo, Brazil. Organized by the University of São Paulo and CIB. Aims of the conference were to discuss market driven public policies and practical solutions for the construction industry to face the environmental demands from society. For more information, please contact the conference secretariat,
Escola Politécnica da USP - Setor de Eventos,
Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto trav. 3 # 380,
05508-900 Cidade Universitária,
São Paulo SP Brasil,
Phone [+5511] 818 5420 / 818 5430
Fax [+5511] 814 5909. Or take a look at http://www.pcc.usp.br/cib2000/.
November 22, 2000
Recycling Contaminated Land - The future role of stabilisation and solidification, University of Greenwich, UK. This first conference in a series was devoted to the key issues concerning remediation by stabilisation/solidification. A number of national and international keynote speakers have discussed: why solidification is an established technology; the UK regulators view; understanding the limitations of the technology; practitioner experience; risk reduction through remediation; objective assessment techniques; future direction.
The research community is encouraged to submit posters for display. Trade displays are also welcome. For more information firstly contact Sue Buchannan, Institute of Material, Tel: +44.1782 202116 or Dr Colin Hills, tel: +44.208 3319820/9800.
October 22-25, 2000
World Conference on Sustainable Buildings 2000, Maastricht, The Netherlands. SB 2000 is the first World Conference on Sustainable Building in the new century. The conference is hosted by Novem and the Dutch Ministry, for Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment.
ISCOWA has organised a workshop on Recycling, environmental quality control and legislation at this conference. Papers of this workshop have been included on the ISCOWA CD-rom with Wascon 2000 papers.
WASCON is the International Conference on the Environmental and Technical Implications of Construction with Alternative Materials. It is organised every three years. Next WASCON will be in 2006 in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. More information on this site in due time.
Proceedings of previous WASCON conferences can now be ordered from ISCOWA for discount prices. Please click here.
CD-rom with papers of WASCON 2000. Papers presented at WASCON 2000 and the ISCOWA workshop at SB 2000 are now available on CD-rom as well. Click here for more information.
Waste Stabilisation and Environment Conference in Lyon-Villeurbanne, France has been held April, 13 -16, 1999. More information can be found on the conference page at the INSA site in French or English. For more information, please contact Jacques Méhu at POLDEN, CEI-BP 2132, 69603 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Telephone: +33 4 72 43 82 65, Fax: +33 4 78 94 24 55.
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Working Group A on Environmental impact assessment and laboratory testing Assessment
focuses on evaluating the environmental impact of alternative
materials in construction applications, such as fill, roadbase,
cement, concrete, ceramic products, roofing materials, etc.
You can find out more about the activities of Working Group A
on Environmental Assessment in the on-line newsletter.
The membership list of Working Group A
also includes information about the activities and interest of
some members, as well as contact information for all members.
Chairman of this group is Julia Stegemann.
The thematic Network on Harmonization of Leaching/Extraction Tests can be viewed at http://www.leaching.net. The work of this group is quite related that of Iscowa's Working group A. The group aims at the harmonization of the many available leaching tests and the evaluation of their mutual relationships. Coordinator of the network is Hans van der Sloot.
Working Group B on Technical developments and materials management focuses on the matters involved in implementing full-scale use of alternative
materials (e.g. the evaluation of demonstration projects). WG-B will organise a workshop "Pilot- and demonstration projects: recent experiences", 1 June 2000 during Wascon 2000.
Chris Zevenbergen has requested to stop being the chairman for this group. A new chairman has been found and will be introduced to you later this year.
Working Group C on Public Perception and Implementation of Waste Utilization focuses on market, managerial, economical and political factors involved in the use of alternative materials. A group of 3 Chair Members has been formed to start activities. For more information you can take a look at their plan of action.
If you are interested to join one of these working groups, please send your request to our secretariat by mail/fax or e-mail, or you can send us the completed registration form.
The TTPI Foundation is organising a Technology Expert Group. To join TTPI is free of costs. To join the Technology Expert Group send your CV to the TTPI secretariat by fax number 00-31-43-6014039 or by e-mail to iscowa-ttp@hetnet.nl .
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All ISCOWA members may post their offers or searches for jobs, business and career opportunities on this website. If you want to post a message or resume please ask our secretariat.
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