UPDATE 3/23/20: In light of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and ongoing safety concerns for members and staff, ASTM International announced today that all previously scheduled in-person May standards development meetings (including independent meetings) have been canceled. Earlier this month, ASTM International announced the cancellation of all April in-person meetings.

These decisions were based on several factors, including, but not limited to:

• Continued review of information and recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and other governmental bodies,
• Input from ASTM International members whose organizations are increasingly concerned with travel, and Monitoring the expanding trajectory of the coronavirus.
• Monitoring the expanding trajectory of the coronavirus.

Staff managers are contacting committee leaders to plan alternatives for conducting committee business. For any committees that collected money for events, ASTM will work to issue refunds as necessary. Sleeping room reservations made in the ASTM Group Block for the April and May 2020 Committee Weeks will automatically be cancelled by the Boston Marriott Copley Place. Attendees staying at other hotels are responsible for cancelling their own hotel reservations. Looking forward, ASTM International will rely on these and other relevant criteria and input points to assess the status of ASTM’s standards development meetings in June.