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Weekend Property & Construction News Weekend Property & Construction News Weekend 25 / 26 February 2006 Circulation : exceeds 3,200 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/property_news.html Quantity Surveying News Construction and Development ASAQS NEWS News Retail Roundup MODEL BILLS OF QUANTITIES Newsflashes for Architects Project Management News As was advised in earlier notices, the revised and updated Model Bills of Quantities (August 2005 Engineering News version) has been completed by a team of professionals from the University of Pretoria , under the News for Estate Agents and Chairmanship of Professor Gerhard Brummer, and will be made available to members in due course. Home Owners This has been a long and demanding task and we wish to thank all participants who assisted in making Latest property news this possible, thereby adding value to our members in offering this valuable service. 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All non-members and Your profession ASAQS members whose fees are not fully paid up will not be permitted to benefit from this CUG Other service without charge, but will be permitted to purchase the document at the rates detailed above. It's an open and shut case... Progate is the best! We wish to collect the names and Should any ASAQS member still not be registered with the CUG facility on the ASAQS website and For gates and gate automation, professions of our old subscribers in wish to do so, he/she can register on-line (free of charge) and get connected at very short notice. The order to personalise our newsletter palisades and electric fencing call in the future. All you need to do is registration facility of members who are not fully paid up will be refused access to the CUG facility and 011-440 2113 submit your name and select your will be treated as “non-members” for this purpose. profession... our computers will do the rest! OUTSTANDING MEMBER FEES The unacceptable high number of members who have not yet fully paid their fees to the ASAQS is an ongoing concern. In response thereto, the Executive Committee has employed a lady, Sharon Hanna, on a temporary basis to give dedicated attention to this concerning matter. She has been tasked with phoning debtors and follow up on all outstanding payments. We would appeal that members with outstanding debts should please co-operate with her when contacted and to make payment of the First Name: outstanding fees without delay. If after this process is completed and members still fail to pay their outstanding fees, we will have no E-mail: alternative but to terminate the membership with the ASAQS of those members without further notice and to take the necessary legal action to recover these monies. Your profession The revised and updated list of debtors is attached for member- and public scrutiny. It is applicable to all Other members who have amounts owing to the Association for the financial year ending 28 February 2005. The list has been updated to incorporate all payments up to the end of January 2006. Please check that Subscribe: your name does not appear on that list. If so, please assist the ASAQS by contacting our offices Un-subscribe: (telephone: 011 – 315 4140) to verify the details and settle your debts. Your co-operation would be appreciated. Please make sure that you are Now in electronic format and regularly connected to the Internet before you press the GO! button. We value The Executive Committee has resolved that all members who are not fully paid up by Friday 24 March updated. For more information call your subscription. 2006 will struck from the membership roll with immediate effect and without further notice. +27-21-855 2513 or visit our website . We would like to offer a public apology to the following Association members whose names erroneously appeared on the initial Debtors list of the Association. We apologise for the oversight and regret any inconvenience that may have been caused. The oversight has been corrected and the names of the following persons have been deleted from the list: Ilitha Quantity Surveyors Offering South Africans the best Laatoe Key Kotze available solutions since 1929 Mr DJA Kotze Mr M. Laatoe Report prepared by: file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/250206.htm[2012/10/22 11:54:03] Weekend Property & Construction News WE WELCOME IFS AS A SPONSOR Industrial Flooring Systems (Pty) Ltd - (IFS) commenced business in the early part 1982 with the fundamental goal of providing a superior contracting service to manufacturers of specialist flooring products. After numerous requests by blue chip clients, IFS established fully operational branches in Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal to provide the high quality service these clients were used to receiving in the Cape and now wanted available in these areas. In 2003 the efforts of IFS were rewarded when a Fulton Award was made to the company in recognition of the work carried out at the SALT (SA Large Telescope) project at Sutherland. In order to ensure that their clients' flooring installations are consistent with their requirements and that the cost of ownership represents true value, IFS works closely with all the major industrial flooring manufacturers. This close association includes regular technical meetings to ensure that the staff of IFS is kept up-to- date with developments in the suppliers product ranges. IFS does, however, ensure that the best interests of the client are of prime importance when specifications are prepared. If, for example, a supplier requests us to tender on the installation of a flooring system from his product range and IFS is aware of a superior product available from another supplier, both the client and the supplier will be made aware of the facts and the final selection of the flooring specification will be made with all parties being clearly aware of all available alternatives. All suppliers of industrial flooring to IFS are made aware of IFS' philosophy -that the customer's satisfaction is of paramount importance - and if a defective product is supplied for whatever reason, the product will be re-supplied and re-applied at no cost to the client. IFS provides a ‘turnkey' application and their clients deal with them only and in the case of any problems arising are not directed to the supplier to seek satisfaction. Their major suppliers include Sika, Resdev, StonCor, Ivory, Plascon and Prostruct. IFS identified the need for an ultra heavy duty floor which could be installed in wet conditions. The product, POLYSCREED, is manufactured exclusively for IFS. file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/250206.htm[2012/10/22 11:54:03] Weekend Property & Construction News To contact IFS click here or phone: Cape – 021 552 4970 Gauteng – 011 794 6224 KwaZuluNatal – 031 701 2491 COMBINED PRESIDENTIAL / VICE PRESIDENTIAL TOUR 2006 During the Association Board meeting held during October 2005, it was agreed that the Presidential and Vice Presidential Tours 2006 to the respective Chapters will be combined into one tour this year. Various reasons have contributed to this decision, the main one of which being the busy personal schedules of the respective parties that participate on such a tour.
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