Weekend Property & Construction News Weekend 28 / 29 March 2009 Circulation : exceeds 4,750 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 ASAQS BOARD MEETING : 02 AND 03 APRIL 2009 Newsflashes for Architects Project Management News Members are advised that the next full Board meeting of the ASAQS is scheduled for Thursday 02 and Engineering News Friday 03 April 2009 at the ASAQS offices in Midrand. It promises to be a busy meeting with many News for Estate Agents and important items placed on the agenda for discussion and debate. A full report will be prepared and Home Owners distributed to all members on conclusion of the meeting. Latest property news Business Incentives News from Africa COMBINED PRESIDENTS / VICE PRESIDENTS TOUR 2009 Mining News Members are advised that the combined Presidents and Vice Presidents Tour 2009 has been completed The Agent's tool kit and is now a thing of the past. The only visit still outstanding is the visit to the Namibian Institute in Building Terms Windhoek, which will be undertaken on 23 and 24 April 2009. The following persons visited all the Weekly Economic Indicators Chapter regions around the country to meet with the general membership and to discuss items of interest Key Economic Indicators surrounding the activities of the ASAQS : Free Contracts Tailpiece • Professor Rob Pearl (President of ASAQS) • Mr Indresen Pillay (Vice President of ASAQS) • Mr Egon Wortmann (Executive Director of ASAQS) A special words of thanks to all the Chapter committees and members that made all the arrangements and hosted the visiting party with such hospitality and kindness. This tour enabled the ASAQS members Now in electronic format and to meet with the ASAQS executive members and to share their experiences, expectations and concerns regularly updated. For more Subscribe to the Newsletter with each other. We wish to thank all the members who gave of their time to support these functions in information call 086 111 1273 or visit our website . Update your information their respective regions. Whilst many interesting subjects were discussed and debated on this tour, a more comprehensive report- back will be prepared and distributed to all members after the forthcoming Board meeting scheduled for Thursday 02 and Friday 03 April 2009. file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/280309.htm[2012/10/16 20:07:58] Weekend Property & Construction News First Name: Offering South Africans the best WE WELCOME THE CSIR AS A SPONSOR available solutions since 1929 Your profession The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has a track record spanning more than 60 years Other and a reputation for spearheading ground-breaking research in the fields of science, engineering and technology. We wish to collect the names and professions of our old subscribers in order to personalise our newsletter CSIR Built Environment is firmly committed to making a practical contribution towards South Africa's in the future. 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The meeting was well attended by the Executive Committee members from across Africa and a fruitful meeting was held to attend to the ongoing activities of the Your profession AAQS in Africa. Other To read more about the meeting and view some photographs please visit the ASAQS website. Subscribe: Un-subscribe: STRIKING OF MEMBERS AND PRACTICES DUE TO NON-PAYMENT OF FEES Please make sure that you are Members are advised that in spite of numerous requests and appeals to some members and practices to connected to the Internet before you press the GO! button. We value pay their outstanding fees due to the ASAQS, it has sadly resulted in some members and practices your subscription. recently having been struck from the membership roll of the ASAQS due to their ongoing non-payment of fees. This action was undertaken in terms of clause 6.5 of the Constitution of the Association. In the event that members and/or practices may believe that they have already paid some or all of the above outstanding fees, we would appeal to such members/practices to please contact the offices of the ASAQS without delay so that any possible misunderstanding may be amicably sorted out. Any queries in this regard should be directed at Ms Merilda Naicker (telephone 011 - 315 4140) at the ASAQS offices. It should further be noted that a full list of all members and practices that have been struck will be placed on the ASAQS website (www.asaqs.co.za) within the next few days. Website Closed User Group (CUG) file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/280309.htm[2012/10/16 20:07:58] Weekend Property & Construction News Struck members are advised that any member who is not a fully paid up member of the ASAQS will also not be permitted further free access into the CUG section of the ASAQS website (www.asaqs.co.za). All members that are struck due to non-payment of fees will have their CUG status immediately cancelled without further notice, thereby denying further access into the CUG section of the website. This will only be reinstated in the event of that the member has settled all outstanding debts, paid the necessary penalty fees and had the membership satisfactorily reinstated. Full report on the ASAQS website. NEW CHAPTER BRANCH IN THE UAE Members will recall that they were advised last year that the ASAQS Board had resolved and agreed that due to popular demand, a new Chapter branch of the ASAQS should be established in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the official seat of which was to be situated in Dubai. In order to kick-start the process, the President of the ASAQS, Professor Rob Pearl, visited Dubai on Thursday 12 March 2009 and made himself available to spend the day in Dubai to meet with as many of the ASAQS members as possible for a preliminary meeting to discuss and investigate the possibilities and practicalities of establishing the UAE Chapter of the ASAQS. On his return, the President reported on his meeting with the members and his report is available on the ASAQS website. SKILLS MODULES TO REPLACE COUNCIL EXAMS Starting on 1 January 2013, all NEW Candidates who apply for registration - on or after 1 January 2013 - in terms of the Quantity Surveying Profession Act 2000 (Act No 49 of 2000) will be admitted to Interviews for Assessment of their Professional Competence only if they produce certificates to prove that they have successfully completed all the prescribed SACQSP Professional Skills Modules during their post-qualification terms as employed, supervised, mentored, Candidates. Visit the SACQSP website to find out more. ANNOUNCEMENT OF FORTHCOMING CONGRESSES / CONFERENCES In order to assist members to plan their diaries this year in terms of forthcoming congresses and conferences they may wish to attend, attached the preliminary dates of some of these congresses for your attention (more details to follow) : Green Building Council SA Green Star Accredited Professional Courses • 15 April 2009 - The Forum, The Campus, Bryanston, Gauteng file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/280309.htm[2012/10/16 20:07:58] Weekend Property & Construction News • 17 April 2009 - Venue TBA - Durban, KwaZulu Natal • 21 April 2009 - Vineyard Hotel, Claremont, Cape Town The Fourth Built Environment Conference 2009 (Hosted jointly by ASOCSA and the CBE) 17 to 19 May 2009 - Livingstone, Zambia 1st Call for papers ASAQS Conference 2009 - POSTPONED 21 to 22 May 2009 - Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape ICEC World Congress 2010 21 to 26 May 2010 – Singapore AACE's 53rd Annual Meeting - Seattle, Washington Sunday, June 28, 2009 through Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Green Buildings Conference 2009 7 to 8 July 2009 – Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg IPD/SAPOA Property Investment Conference 2009 30 to 31 July 2009 – BMW Pavilion Conference Centre, Cape Town PAQS Conference 2009 17 to 19 August 2009 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia RICS Legal Research Symposium 2009 10 to 11 September 2009 - Cape Town, Western Cape MBSA Congress 2009 27 to 29 September 2009 - Sandton Convention Centre SAFCEC Conference 2009 11 to 12 October 2009 – Champagne Sports Resort, Drakensberg SACQSP Academic Conference 2009 17 October 2009 – Durban, KwaZulu Natal ICEC World Congress 2012 23 to 26 June 2012 – Durban, South Africa Members are encouraged to plan ahead and to support these conferences/congresses !! CLASSIFIEDS file:///C|/Users/Bert%20vd%20Heever/Documents/My%20Websites/ASAQS/News/Issues/280309.htm[2012/10/16 20:07:58] Weekend Property & Construction News PRQS - Mozambique PQS firm with an office in Maputo, Mozambique is seeking a Senior Quantity Surveyor with 8 - 12 years QS & Project Mnagement experience on building & civil projects.