What is ESA?
The Association includes in its Committee, membership manufacturers, suppliers and sealant applicators, who can collectively give extensive experience and comprehensive knowledge on design, planning, repair diagnosis, surface preparation, product availability and performance, application technique and economic costings.
Why was ESA
formed?
ESA was formed to give technical, practical and economical advice in the important aspect of sealing joints in concrete and asphalt pavements to airfields, motorways, roads, car parks and similar constructions.
What do ESA
offer?
The service offered by ESA is to assist specifying authorities, project engineers and contractors who are involved in the design and application of joint sealants, particularly to pavement construction and maintenance.
The ESA Standards
Manufacturer’s literature shall provide performance data, based on fact and experience and shall provide application instructions that are clean and unambiguous.
Manufacturers will provide adequate technical support facilities for their products and will test sufficiently before marketing to ensure that the products fulfil the stated requirements.
Contractors will apply products in accordance with the manufacturers written application instructions and, in addition, will also be guided by their own expertise in deciding on the conditions required for satisfactory performance and the products, which are appropriate.
ESA safety recommendations will be conscientiously carried out at all times.
ESA Members will aim to do business with other Members of ESA whenever possible and practicable and will also encourage suitable non-members to join the Association.
Competition between fellow Members, or between Members and others, shall be carried out in an ethical manner.
ESA Members have a duty to guide clients fairly and correctly within the limitations of current knowledge. ESA Members not conforming to these Aims and Objectives may be expelled from the Association.
ESA's Aims & Objectives
Members (and other Associates) undertake to promote actively the Aims of ESA and to uphold and maintain the ESA Standards. The aims of ESA are to promote the acceptance and use of Extruded Sealant Materials in Construction and Industrial Applications. This objective will be pursued as follows:
(a) By promoting understanding of the potentialities of the materials and their cost-effective use.
(b) By encouraging, in consultation with interested parties, the development of technical standards for the materials.
(c) By developing uniformly high standards of application.
(d) By encouraging Members to comply with good technical and business standards, and by making users aware of the effort being expended in this direct.
