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International Roundup - Vol 18, No 2

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Forthcoming Conferences

A number of international quantity surveying conferences will be held over the coming months. They all promise world-class programs and will be held in outstanding venues accross the world. These include:

The 3rd Triennial General Assembly of the Africa Association of Quantity Surveyors which will have a theme of "New Economic Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) - in Persuit of African Rennaisance" - 24-27 April 2005 in Abuja, Nigeria;
The IV IPMA-ICEC International Expert Seminar - 23-24 June 2005 in Malaga, Spain;
AACE International's 49th Annual Meeting - 26-29 June 2005 in New Orleans, United States;
The 9th Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors Congress. Its theme will be the "Culture of quality construction" - 27-28 June 2005 in Dalian, China;
The NORDNET 2005 Symposium - 26-28 October 2005 in Copenhagen, Denmark; and
The 19th IPMA World Congress which will have a theme of "Vision to reality - the project management way" - 13-16 November 2005 in New Delhi, India.

ICEC Regional Annual Meetings will be held in conjunction with the conferences in China, Denmark, Nigeria and the United States.

Also don't forget that the 5th World Congress on Cost Engineering, Project Management, and Quantity Surveying and 19th International Cost Engineering Congress will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia between 23 and 26 April 2006.

Selected forthcoming events are featured in the Coming Events page of each issue of International Roundup. Please contact the ICEC Secretariat if you would like your coming event to be featured in the October issue or to have it included in the ICEC Calendar.

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AIQS and ASAQS sign Reciprocity Agreement

ICEC member associations, the Australian Institute of Quantity Suveyors (AIQS) and the South African Association of Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS) signed a membership Reciprocity Agreement last November. ASAQS and AIQS face similiar challenges in developing,promoting and regulating the profession their country.

According to AIQS General Manager, Terry Sanders, "the Reciprocity Agreement is a further example of the benefit of mutual arrrangements that do not threaten local national Institutes and demonstrates the international QS professsion's preference for the "United Nations" approach to global co-operation rather than the dominations of one body."

In addition to the reciprocity agreement, the two institutes agreed to exchange professional development resources and research reports and liaise on education developments and development of standards and competencies. AIQS and CIQS exchanged copies of their manuals, texts, guidelines and practice notes at the Annual General Meeting.

Peter Cox, AIQS Federal Councillor and ICEC Admin Vice Chairman, with Lindile Mteza, President of ASAQS

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Roundup News

AIQS and ASAQS sign Reciprocity Agreement
Forthcoming Conferences
ICEC certification and continuing professional development programs
International Expert Seminar collaboration with ICEC a first for Spain
Nigerian President to meet with QS delegation

Nigerian President to meet with QS delegation

The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, will meet with a delegation from Africa Association for Quantity Surveyors and the International Cost Engineering Council before the official opening of the 3rd Triennial General Assembly of the Africa Association of Quantity Surveyors and the Annual Meeting of ICEC Region 3. The theme of the congress will be "New Economic Partnership for African development (NEPAD) - Challenges for built environment professionals in Africa.

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International Expert Seminar collaboration with ICEC a first for Spain

Registration of Delegates at the Expert Seminar The III IPMA-ICEC International Expert Seminar and the VIII International Congress on Project Engineering, which was held October last year in Bilboa, was the first scientific activity dealing with both engineering costs and project management held in Spain.

The Expert Seminar was also the first collaboration between the International Cost Engineering Council (ICEC) and the Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO) which joined the Council in 2003.

Professor Verster addresses AEIPRO General Assembly ICEC Chairman, Professor J (Basie) Verster and Frank Berry represented ICEC at the conferences which were held concurrently. Professor Verster addressed both AIEPRO's General Assembly and the Gala Dinner at the conclusion of the event.

The opening speech, "Strategic Delivery Capability", was given by Doctor Lynn Crawford of the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. The closing address, "Mulitproject Management" was presented by Mr Eduardo Serrano, the Operational Director of SENER.

Dr Lynn Crawford giving opening speech in Bilboa The IV IPMA-ICEC International Expert Seminar will be held 23-24 June 2005 in Malaga, Spain;

Click here to view the report of the III IPMA-ICEC International Expert Seminar

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ICEC certification and continuing professional development programs

ICEC member societies which have not yet submitted an application for recognition of their certification or continuing professional development programs are urged to do so in order to gain worldwide recognition, both for the programs and for the individuals who have earned certification.

Application for accreditation of any project management, cost engineering, or quantity surveying program may be made online at http://www.icoste.org/certapp.htm.

Criteria for recognition of programs appears at http://www.icoste.org/guidl.htm.

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