• General Overview
  
• Activities, Products, and Services
  
• Participating as a Member on the Committee
  
• Stakeholders
  
• Relationship with Industry, Govenment, and Regulation
  
  
  

The committee’s standards address a number of technical areas:

• Oil and resin base caulking and glazing compounds;

• Hot applied sealing materials for use in sealing building joints and openings, including sealing materials that can be dispersed by present and future hot applied equipment;

• Latex sealants for building construction;

• Sealants that set to cure primarily through solvent release;

• Single and multi-component cold-applied elastomeric type joint sealants for caulking, sealing, and glazing operations in buildings, building area (plazas, decks, pavements, etc.), and other types of construction;

• Sealing of exterior and interior building joints with elastomeric structural sealing compounds; and

• Cellular and dense materials used in externally compressed preformed gaskets and for dense materials used in lock-strip gaskets in building construction.

Symposia and Special Technical Publications

Committee C24 regularly sponsors symposia relating to the most advanced technologies related to road and paving materials. Oftentimes the papers are published in a peer-reviewed Special Technical Publication (STP). Recent STPs include:

• STP 1453, Durability of Building and Construction Sealants and Adhesives;

• STP 1334, Science and Technology of Building Seals, Sealants, Glazing, and Waterproofing: 7th Volume;

• STP 1286, Science and Technology of Building Seals, Sealants, Glazing, and Waterproofing: 6th Volume;

• STP 1271, Science and Technology of Building Seals, Sealants, Glazing, and Waterproofing: 5th Volume; and

• STP 1254, Science and Technology of Building Seals, Sealants, Glazing, and Waterproofing: 3rd Volume.

For a list of C24 publications, click here.

To learn more about the next C24 symposium, click here.

PARTICIPATING AS A MEMBER ON THE COMMITTEE

ASTM International opens its doors to all technical experts with an interest in the standardization process, and the best means to keep abreast of changes, introduce your proposals, and to acquire the standards is to become a member. ASTM membership is comprised of volunteer, industry professionals from around the world.

As a member of ASTM Committee C24, you will be exposed to the robust resources and member benefits included below that have helped make ASTM a worldwide standards development leader for more than a century:

• Network with industry professionals worldwide;

• Receive one free volume of the Annual Book of ASTM Standards (in print or CD);

• Use Internet-based Standards Development Forums and electronic balloting;

• Receive discounts on all ASTM publications;

• Keep up to date through a free subscription to ASTM’s bimonthly magazine, Standardization News, and a monthly electronic newsletter;

• Benefit from reduced fees for attendance at ASTM symposia and technical workshops;

• And more.

Becoming a member can be accomplished from the website by selecting Join ASTM. Benefits include complimentary standards, discounts on material, voting privileges, and access to the rapidly changing standards information that affects your technical community. ASTM membership is $75 (USD) a year. Members receive a volume of the published standards of the Committee.

Members can participate from anywhere because of ASTM’s customized web-based systems. The best way to contribute as a member is to (1) participate in task group activities that are of interest, both virtually and in person, and (2) vote on ballots and provide feedback and recommendations. To participate in standards activities, start by identifying Work Items of interest by reviewing the List of Subcommittees, Standards, and Work Items on the C24 home page. Contact task group leaders for those areas of interest by reviewing the Work Item summary pages and securing contact information available through the on-line roster in the member area. To make the most of your voting and participation, be sure to stipulate which specific subcommittees you wish to participate in when you join. You will then receive notices of ballots that open within these groups.

STAKEHOLDERS

ASTM policy requires that there be a balance of interests at the standards development table. The standards development process is open and enables all stakeholders from the industry a voice in the shaping of a standard. The only requirement is that the producers cannot outnumber the users. This is not a problem in Committee C24 as the majority of members are user and general interest representatives. Building engineers, sealant scientists, and product producers volunteer their time to participate and develop marketplace-relevant standards for the industry.

RELATIONSHIP WITH INDUSTRY, GOVERNMENT, AND REGULATION

Committee C24 has several standards that play a prominent role in building codes. The C24 flagship standard, C 920, Specification for Elastomeric Joint Sealants, is cited in building codes and in the Code of Federal Regulations (U.S.); in addition, the standard is used by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as the U.S. Department of Energy.