Technical Assistance Program
ASTM International offers its technical and professional training programs to several national standards bodies at a minimal cost. Each national standards body selects the program of most interest and local technical experts have the opportunity to attend a two- or three-day course taught by an ASTM technical expert.
2010 Technical Assistance Training Programs
- Peru Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual
- Topic:
- ASTM Cement and Concrete Standards: Relationship to ACI 318
- Oct. 25-27, 2010
- Indonesia Badan Standardisasi Nasional
- Topic:
- Phase I & Phase II Environmental Site Assessment Processes
- Oct. 12-14, 2010
2007 - 2009 Technical Assistance Training Programs
- Bahrain Directorate for Standards and Metrology
- Topic:
- ASTM Standards for Asbestos Control
- Oct. 26, 2009
- Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology (train the trainer event)
- Topic:
- Concrete and Cement Standards
- Oct. 4-9, 2009
- Kazakhstan Institute for Standardization and Certification
- Topic:
- Crude Oil: Sampling, Testing and Evaluation
- July 13–15, 2009
- South African Development Community Cooperation in Standardization
- Topic:
- Textiles
- November 30 - December 4, 2009
- Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards (Caribbean regional event)
- Topic:
- Textiles: Quality and Performance Standards
- March 26–27, 2009
- Instituto Boliviano de Normalización y Calidad
- Course Selected:
- Textiles: Quality and Performance Standards
- Feb. 8-9, 2007
- 31 Participants
- Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización
- Course Selected:
- Gasoline: Specifications, Testing and Technology
- Feb. 12-14, 2007
- 35 Participants
- Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology
- Course Selected:
- Gasoline, Diesel Fuel and Jet Fuel
- May 8-10, 2007
- 31 Participants
- Vietnam Directorate for Standards and Quality (in conjunction with the gasoline training course in Vietnam, a two-day "train the trainer" program on gasoline was also conducted by Instructor Sal Rand.)
- Course Selected:
- Gasoline: Specifications, Testing and Technology
- May 29-31, 2007
- 30 Participants
- Zambia Bureau of Standards
- Course Selected:
- Specialized: Building Codes and Standards
- July 23-25, 2007
- 35 Participants
- Jamaica Bureau of Standards
- Course Selected:
- ASTM Cement and Concrete Standards: Relationship to ACI 318
- Jan. 16-18, 2008
- 25 Participants
- Taiwan Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection
- Course Selected:
- Gasoline: Specifications, Testing and Technology
- April 14-16, 2008
- 31 Participants
- The Standards Institution of Israel
- Course Selected:
- Flammability of Wearing Apparel and Flammability of Children's Sleepwear
- May 14-15, 2008
- 10 Participants
- Mongolian Agency for Standardization and Metrology
- Course Selected:
- Two-day Risk-Based Corrective Action for Chemical Releases training program
- June 16-17, 2008
- 35 Participants
- Colombia, Bogota
- Course Selected:
- Statistics in Standards and standards development: Test Method Development and Validation
- September 15-16, 2008
- Chile Instituto Nacional de Normalización
- Course Selected:
- Technical and Professional Training Course on ASTM Cement and Concrete Standards: Relationship to ACI 318
- September/October 2008
- Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality
- Course Selected:
- Statistics in Standards and Standards Development: Test Method
- Development and Validation/Statistics in Standards and Standards Development: Getting to Precision and Bias
- Oct. 21-23, 2008
- Standardization Organization for the Gulf Cooperation Council
- Course Selected:
- ASTM Cement and Concrete Standards: Relationship to ACI 318
- Date: Nov. 15-17 2008
- Qatar General Organization for Standards and Metrology
- Course Selected:
- ASTM Cement and Concrete Standards: Relationship to ACI 318
- Nov. 18-20, 2008
- Instituto de Normas Técnicas de Costa Rica inviting the participation of the other Central American National Standards Bodies including: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
- Course Selected:
- Major Testing Techniques for Plastics
- Oct. 21-23 2008
- South African Bureau of Standards
- Course Selected:
- Gasoline: Specifications, Testing and Technology
- Oct. 22- 24, 2008

Intensive Training Program on the Public-Private Partnership in Standardization for the Chechen Republic
Overview
Coordinated Programs
In addition to the technical programs listed, five coordinated training programs with a broader scope of instruction were conducted in 2008. These programs included representatives from the ASTM Technical Committee Operations (TCO) and Publications and Marketing divisions, as well as Global Cooperation. Programs were conducted with China, Ecuador, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia with the five nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Standards Organization (GSO), and Qatar.
China
Topic:
Construction sustainability
Partner organizations:
Hinton
April 2008
Russia
Topic:
Metals, petroleum, construction, mobility
Partner organizations:
ANSI, API, ASME, NIST, SAE
May 2008
Ecuador
Topic:
Concrete/cement
Partner organizations:
Instituto Ecuatoriano del Cemento y del Concreto
September 2008
Gulf Region
Topic:
Concrete/cement
Partner organizations:
ACI (local)
November 2008
India
Topic:
Plastics
Partner organizations:
DoC, ITA, NIST
November 2009
South Korea
Topic:
Civil Nuclear Energy
Partner organizations:
ASME, NRC, NIST, NACE, ITA
January 2011
Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica
Topic:
Steel
November 2011