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Weekend Property & Construction News Weekend Property & Construction News Weekend 18 / 19 June 2011 Circulation : exceeds 5,000 subscribers Property and Construction related articles featured on the Internet during the past week brought to you by ASAQS. Editor: Bert van den Heever News specific to the quantity surveying profession is reflected at the bottom of this newsletter. Click on the blue headline if you wish to read the full article on the Internet. Past issues of this newsletter can be found at http://www.asaqs.co.za/news/e_newsletter.htmll Quantity Surveying News Construction and Development ASAQS NEWS News Retail Roundup Newsflashes for Architects THE NETSPOT : TRUE KNOWLEDGE Project Management News What is 1 stone in kilograms? What is the distance between Mookambika and Guruvayur? Engineering News News for Estate Agents and These are just some of the questions being asked when we visited re-vamped Internet-answer site at Home Owners http://www.trueknowledge.com The new layout is simple and lively with an increased emphasis on Latest property news social elements. Speech bubbles pop up showing you what people are asking. Answers were based on Business Incentives over 606 million facts during our visit but the number ticks over while you are on the home page as News from Africa new facts are added. A tab at the side of the home page allows visitors to easily add their own facts. Mining News Green Building News We also liked the browser plugin that enhances search results in Google, Yahoo and a couple of other The Agent's tool kit search engines. Building Terms Weekly Economic Indicators RESEARCH CONFERENCE 2011 Key Economic Indicators Free Contracts Digital brochures and registration forms are available for the SACQSP research conference from the Tailpiece SACQSP website or the conference website hosted on the NMMU server. The scope of the conference is to encourage active debate amongst researchers, post-graduate students and practitioners on such issues as : Sustainable construction Innovation in construction Construction industry development Human resource development Trends and challenges in construction Property investment Challenges facing the profession First Name: file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/180611.htm[2012/10/14 18:18:09] Weekend Property & Construction News The conference takes place on the 2nd September 2011 in Port Elizabeth. E-mail: INTERIM REPORT: 8 JUNE 2011 Your profession Dear members, Other Below are some of the issues discussed at the last board meeting held on 19 May 2011 for your Subscribe: information. Un-subscribe: Executive Director Position as well as new EduTec manager Please make sure that you are An advertisement will be placed for the position of Executive Director as well as new EduTec Manager connected to the Internet before for the ASAQS. Any member who is interested could apply for the position. These positions will soon you press the GO! button. We value your subscription. be advertised on the website as well. Data base Investigations to look at appointing a private company to compile and manage the data base of ASAQS members is in progress. This is currently receiving the ongoing attention of the Board and Exco, following years of problems experienced by using two systems, one for billing and the other for administration. ASAQS office sub-letting The need was identified for more area to be sub-let the current tenants and an agreement has been reached which will result in additional income from under utilized area. This will be completed in June. Reciprocity agreement A reciprocity agreement will be signed by the President of the ASAQS with the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors in Sri Lanka at the PAQS congress which takes place between 23 – 26 July 2011. JBCC Prof Tinus Maritz was nominated to serve as board member on the JBCC committee on behalf of the ASAQS and their members. ICEC Congress The 8th ICEC World Congress will take place on 23 – 27 June 2012. The ASAQS will be the host in Durban and welcome any sponsorships. Please contact Deon Vermeulen on 021-5519711 in regard to this. Built Environment Profession [BEP] act Research is being done and preparations are being made to investigate with various parties the proposed BEP act which will definitely effect our profession. Anyone with additional insight and/or firm opinions should forward this to the Director of ASAQS. Municipalities / Local authorities The ASAQS wants to target municipalities, local authorities as well as the housing market as new opportunities for its members. The ASAQS Board and Chapters are currently busy with this and Board file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/180611.htm[2012/10/14 18:18:09] Weekend Property & Construction News members have been tasked investigate avenues. Bursaries The ASAQS wants to encourage post graduate studies with a bursary every year for a student and a adjudication method will be completed this year. Cape Homemakers Expo Members in the Western Cape will be allowed to enter the Cape Homemakers Expo at the beginning of September free of charge with an e-ticket which will be provided to them by the ASAQS. Important dates ASAQS Board & ExCo meeting Place: Port Elizabeth Date: 1nd September 2011 SACQSP Congress Theme: 2020 Revisited Place: Port Elizabeth Date: 2nd September 2011 Yours truly, Pieter Kotzé President of the ASAQS ESTATE AGENTS BOARD EXEMPTION An Equivalency (Exemptions) Matrix has been constructed by the EAAB as a living document, for the purposes of granting recognition to relevant qualifications previously obtained by candidates after a proper assessment process. In the case of Quantity Surveyors, the exemption comes as a BScQS. This exempts candidates holding the qualification from doing the NQF qualification courses. In order to get the exemption the candidate submits a certified copy of ID, qualification (degree) and transcripts to the MDI T/A Oxford Institute (Tel: 011 646 8491 Fax: 086 538 7514 Email: [email protected]) and they issue the candidate with an exemption certificate. Cost is R1000. This certificate is then submitted to the Board by the candidate. UPDATES TO CHAPTER WEB PAGES The web pages of the Gauteng- and KZN Chapters have been updated with the latest information from those regions. In order to prevent future scheduling conflicts visit their calendars and diarise future meetings and CPD events now. file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/180611.htm[2012/10/14 18:18:09] Weekend Property & Construction News ASAQS SALARY SURVEY 2011 An annual survey of salaried staff is conducted amongst firms in order to determine the hourly rate for principals, partners, members of close corporations and directors. As such principals are not necessarily allocated a salary, different categories of salaried personnel are used as a basis, with a factor added in order to arrive at an hourly rate. Please be assured that only the Executive Director of the Association of SA Quantity Surveyors has access to the individual returns, thus absolute confidentiality is assured. As soon as feedback is returned from the firms, this information is handed over to a firm of statistical analysts who are commissioned to capture the information and compute the results to finally arrive at an hourly rate. Clearly the better the response from the firms, the more reliable and representative the results will become. A special appeal is therefore made to all member firms to please assist the Association with this important survey by setting aside a little time to complete the questionnaire and returning same (preferably in electronic format) to the offices of the Association. The deadline is Friday 24th June 2011. Please submit the information back to the Executive Director of the ASAQS, Prof. Thys Siglé, by e-mail to [email protected]. Alternatively it can be faxed to (011) 315 3785 or posted to the ASAQS, P.O. Box 3527, Halfway House, 1685 Alternatively it can also be submitted electronically via the ASAQS website (www.asaqs.co.za) by clicking here. Finally it should be noted that the results of this survey will only be made available to the respondent firms of this survey in a format that will ensure absolute confidentiality. The information will NOT be made freely available to everyone on the ASAQS website. To view the explanatory covering letter, please click here. To view the form (in MsWord) to be completed and returned, please click here. Your co-operation and assistance is greatly appreciated. CONTINGENCY SUMS, THEIR DEFINITION AND APPLICATION Contingency is probably the most misunderstood allowance in a project estimate, right from its initial definition to its application during the course of the project. Numerous companies use contingency in varying ways. The problem is, with no one systematic approach there is no actual set of rules or guidelines to follow. The application of contingency is really based upon the definition that the owner of the estimate has for contingency. To find out more visit the ASAQS website. file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/180611.htm[2012/10/14 18:18:09] Weekend Property & Construction News WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF OUR PROFESSIONS UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL? During a meeting held on the 5th of May 2011, the DPW unveiled their latest proposals regarding the future of the Councils controlling the built-environment professions. The proposals are contained in a discussion document which highlights the background to- and the changes in policy proposed by the DPW. In short, it proposes to co-ordinate the functions of the present Councils and place them under a new governing body called the South African Council for the Built Environment. It is imperative that all professionals take note of the proposed changes and partake in the debate as the implementation of the policy will definitely impact on their future.
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