REPORT ON LAND SURVEYORS MEETING

The ISTT held a meeting on Sunday 3 September 2006, to disseminate four technical papers and to discuss professional fees.  The technical papers were well received and invited many questions and comments.  These papers were:

• ‘Contouring Software’ by Hakeeb Nandalal
• ‘Configuring a hand-held GPS to read local co-ordinates’ by Glenn Wilkes
• ‘Effect of precisely-determined land areas on property values and their valuation’ by Robert Beard and
• ‘International Maritime boundary delimitation’ by Francis Charles

There was lively debate at the discussion of professional fees.  The members present agreed to a minimum fee of $7,500 per day for a day long project.  This figure would be forwarded to the cabinet appointed committee that requested a minimum fee to be submitted by all the professional groups in the ISTT for use on State required construction projects. 

The meeting constituted a CPD event and certificates to that effect will be prepared and issued to the participants in due course.

Dr. Charisse Griffith-Charles

PRO of ISTT