Review article

To facilitate the development of the construction industry, it is necessary to timely issue new standards and to revise the existing ones. However, several problems in the field of technical regulation have been revealed associated with the unwillingness to apply scientific and practical methods in the development of standards and the lack of a hierarchical system of standardized requirements and methods of controlling them. In this regard, the fund of normative construction documents is characterized by unreasonable growth due to the presence of duplicate standards and an excessive number of identical standards for testing methods applied to homogeneous products. Also, the quality of the standards themselves is not up to date: there are ambiguous interpretations, and the requirements and methods are not pre-approved in the industry scientific organizations, which makes it difficult to implement them in the activities of various laboratories. Ultimately, his has a negative impact on the reliability of the obtained product test results and, consequently, can raise the level of risk to the impartiality of the laboratories. There are regarded the problems of standardization on examples of regulatory documents on crushed stone, curbstone, bituminous materials, materials for road markings, as well as suggested ways of solving these problems.