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Dear Colleagues (apols for cross posting) It's nearly Christmas time and time for our annual yuletide lecture and Michael Barrett award. The first lecture of the session went very well with over 60 CICES and RICS members crowding into UEL to listen to Barry Gleeson and Martin Penney speak on Survey4BIM and the major big 5 GeoBIM issues facing the BIM industry. The 'call to arms' has been made and its really time for our geoindustries to step up, level 2 BIM adoption is a pipedream without these 5 issues being solved and only we can do it, together. Details of how to add your geo-shoulder to the mill @ http://www.bimtaskgroup.org/survey4bim/ Now we move onto something different and focus on land tenure issues with this year's annual Michael Barrett award lecture. We expect this lecture to be popular so do please reserve a place by simply emailing [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Lectures are free and open to all. Do please feel free to pass on the details to colleagues. A number of this sessions lectures are being held on Tuesdays rather than the traditional Thursdays, please make sure to note the change in day. Many of you will have attended the enormously successful GeoBusiness 2015 conference and exhibition in May and we are delighted to announce that the dates for 2016 have been set. GeoBusiness 2016 will be held 24th - 25th May at the same location, Business Design Centre Islington London. The call for papers for the 2016 event http://geobusinessshow.com/ will be going out shortly. The 2016 conference again brings together RICS, AGI, CICES, the TSA and ICE for the geospatial event for everyone involved in the gathering, storing, processing and delivering of geospatial information. RICS would encourage all of our members to actively engage with an event that has such wonderful potential for our industries. The UK (and Anglophone world) has a burgeoning and rapidly expanding geo-industry sector and we at RICS feel that this is the conference and exhibition that we deserve and one which all of our organisations can really get behind. See you all in Islington (again). RICS members are also encouraged to download the now deeply embedded industry standard Measured Surveys 3rd ed 2014 http://www.rics.org/uk/knowledge/professional-guidance/guidance-notes/measured-surveys-of-land-buildings-and-utilities-3rd-edition/ and the reacquaint themselves with our extensive portfolio of professional and technical output of guidance, client and public guides and research https://communities.rics.org/connect.ti/Wikigeo/groupHome Members should also watch out for the 2015-16 consultation and release of the Rights of Light 2nd ed guidance note and for our UK neighbour dispute roadshow. RICS Party Walls and Boundaries Essential Update - http://www.rics.org/uk/training-events/conferences-seminars/rics-party-walls-and-boundaries-essential-update-/london/ Seminars: London, 3 Nov 2015 and other locations - Combining legal and technical guidance to better advise your clients. Party Walls agreements, boundary disputes, rights of light and related practice constitute a significant area of work carried out by the surveying profession. Surveyors have a responsibility to provide expert technical guidance whilst also being aware of the legal issues surrounding this complex area of work. RICS Party Walls and Boundaries Essential Update will ensure you remain at the forefront of this practice area and are working to the highest professional standards by providing a series of half day seminars in various regions across the UK. Each seminar will cover the four key areas of related practice in this field including, party walls, boundaries, rights of light and nuisance. Each session will examine in depth both the legal and technical aspects surveyors need to be aware of to remain compliant and best advise their clients. Bringing together the combined expertise of surveyors and barristers, our expert speaker line-up makes this a must-attend event for anyone thinking of, or currently practicing in the field of Party Walls and Boundaries. RICS Geomatics will be presenting at numerous global and UK geospatial and land events during 2015-16 including InterGeo (Berlin Oct 2014 - RICS report @ http://www.rics.org/uk/news/news-insight/comment/geomatics-feeling-optimistic/ ), SPAR Europe, GeoBIM, World Bank Land & Poverty March 2016, Oceanology 2016 and FIG Christchurch 2016 to name but a few. Details on the 'Capturing Reality' Salzburg event can be found @ http://www.capturingrealityforum.com/ Details on the 'GeoBIM' Amsterdam event can be found @ http://www.geo-bim.org/Europe/ Details on the GIM Summit can be found @ http://www.gimsummit.com/ RICS Geomatics evening lectures are free and open to all (especially students) and we would ask that all those wishing to attend contact our PG support team [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> to guarantee a place. Evening lectures have proved increasingly popular over the last few years and are often oversubscribed. All details on future evening lectures and for the latest from RICS Geomatics can be found at www.rics.org/geomatics<http://www.rics.org/geomatics> and at the urls below each lecture. Online resources from the 2014-15 session can be accessed @ https://communities.rics.org/connect.ti/Wikigeo/groupHome Do please feel free to pass these details onto colleagues. Tues<http://www.rics.org/uk/training-events/conferences-seminars/intelligent-decisions-intelligent-infrastructure---the-contribution-of-geospatial-and-bim/newcastle/> 08th Dec 2015 - Michael Barrett award 2015 - RICS Christmas lecture Lecture title: Safe as houses? Why tenure matters more than ever in 2015 The Committee on World Food Security (CFS), the UN forum for policies concerning food security, formally endorsed the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security in 2012. These Voluntary Guidelines were negotiated by governments from all regions of the world with the participation of civil society and the private sector, following a global consultation process led by FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). The Voluntary Guidelines have now become the globally-accepted standard for improving the governance of tenure for all, with an emphasis on vulnerable and marginalized people. While the guidelines were prepared in the context in food security, they also contribute to other development goals, including poverty eradication, sustainable livelihoods, women's tenure rights, social stability, housing security, rural development, environmental protection and sustainable social and economic development. The Voluntary Guidelines will be the key reference for work on tenure in support of the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, which were formally adopted by the General Assembly of the UN in New York on 25 September 2015. The global community agreed the Millennium Development Goals in 2000. These MDGs made scant reference to issues of tenure; how real property is held, accessed and administered. The Secretary General's Development Goals for the period 2015-30 (SDGs) include clear targets which put tenure firmly on the global agenda: ensuring that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property; that agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers are doubled, including through secure and equal access to land; that reforms give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property; and that access for all is ensured to adequate, safe and affordable housing. The SDGs and 2015 are a major step forward and opportunity for the profession of the land, and, of course, the RICS and FIG were both partners committed to the global support for the development of the Voluntary Guidelines. Speaker and Michael Barrett award winner: Paul Munro-Faure, Land Tenure, FAO Paul is Deputy Director of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) based in Rome and has led FAO's tenure team since 2000. He studied land economy, rural planning and public sector land management at Cambridge and Reading Universities and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has extensive practical experience in the agricultural and urban sectors in the developed market economies; in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, in the Asia/Pacific region and in Africa. He has a special interest in coastal and marine resource management. He was elected the first Honorary Life Member of the 27 year old Institute of Valuation and Estate Management of Fiji at the age of 27 and qualified as a valuer with the RICS the following year, in 1983. He is an Honorary Doctor of Oxford Brookes University, where he is a Visiting Professor; as also he is at the Royal Agricultural University. He has been substantially involved in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, where he led RICS activities with the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) for some years and chaired the Institution's FIG Forum. He has been a member of several of the Institution's Committees, including Idris Pearce's RICS Presidential Committee on The Future of the Profession in 1990 and the RICS International Policy Group from 1996 to 1999. He chaired FIG's Commission 7 on Cadastre and Land Management from 1998 to 2002. Paul comes from a long line of surveyors. His great- great-grandfather, Daniel Ward, founded Ward & Chowen in Tavistock, Devon, in 1830, a firm of Chartered Surveyors which is still thriving. There have been Chartered Surveyors in almost all generations of the family ever since, and two of his three brothers are Chartered Surveyors. Location: RICS HQ, Parliament Square, London SW1P 3AD 1730 for 1800hrs Tues 26th Jan 2016 - UK Geo-forum annual lecture Lecture title: TBC Speaker: TBC Location: RICS HQ, Parliament Square, London SW1P 3AD Synopsis: 1730 for 1800hrs Thurs 25th Feb 2016 - Measured buildings and property measurement standards Lecture title: Measured buildings and property measurement standards Speaker: Tom Pugh MRICS Location: RICS HQ, Parliament Square, London SW1P 3AD Synopsis: 1730 for 1800hrs Thurs TBC April 2016 - Scottish lecture Lecture title: Measured surveys 3rd ed guidance and spec - at the heart of every good survey is a strong specification Speaker: James Kavanagh MRICS, Director Land and Resources RICS Location: TBC Synopsis: Measurement, be it of land, buildings or utilities, is central to the core practice of surveyors around the world. But just what is the 'essense' of Measurement and how do we ensure consistency in measurement and specifications? How do we communicate these needs to clients? In a language they understand? and how do we price accordingly? How does the new International Property Measurement Standard (IPMS) directly connect valuation and measurement? And just what happened when RICS delved into the world of BIM and scanned its HQ to create a 3d model and subsequent BIM model and what kind of technology is just around the corner. Building Information Modelling (BIM) has the potential to revolutionise construction and infrastructure design and delivery but also has an enormous role to play in our management of the current built environment. This presentation will also explore how RICS is developing the central role of the surveyor within the BIM lifecycle, how a consistent measured survey specification and spatial accuracy is at the heart of BIM model integrity (during all stages) and how the centralised communication and data transfer aspects of BIM may be the biggest 'cultural' hurdles to overcome. This presentation will also explore the linkage between BIM and wide area geographic information systems, asset management projects, smart cities the expansion from 3 dimensions into 4 and 5 d BIM. RICS Geo has recently reviewed the industry standard '1:500 surveys 2nd 1997' to a new edition 'measured surveys of land, buildings and utilities 3rd ed 2014' (release date summer 2014). This new guidance note and specification introduces important new elements such as a 'detail survey accuracy table', an expanded digital deliverables section, integrated survey feature tables within each survey section, new sections on engineering surveying (construction setting out) and deformation survey, inclusion of International Property Measurement Standards (IPMS) components and Survey4BIM standards, and expanded and enhanced sections on survey grid and control. This presentation will focus on the new guidance note, its global applicability and its direct connection to professionalism and regulation. We can all mean different things when we mention the term 'measurement' but just what connects land, construction and property surveyors? International Land Measurement Standards (ILMS) coalition launched The final piece of the International Standards jigsaw was put into place last week with the agreement and launch of the International Land Measurement Standard (ILMS) coalition by an initial grouping of 13 international and national bodies. A 'call to arms' to join the ILMS coalition is now ongoing as is the development of web resources. At the heart of the suite of international standards is the desire to create sustainable, professional markets in an increasingly connected global economy and to de-risk the internal and external 'investment' process. Land investment is no different, however the issues to surmount and the corresponding benefits and global potential dwarf many previous initiatives. Land issues are also very high on the agenda of the development community with organisations such as the World Bank, the United Nations (and many of its key agencies such as FAO (Food and Agriculture), UN-Habitat and UNHCR) and national agencies such as DfID (UK international development agency) and USAID (US international development) voicing their support for the concept. The Challenge Statistics on global land issues are stark - 70% of land and property in the developing world is un-registered and outside of formal markets, 90% of residential and commercial property in Africa is untitled and land and property transactions are high on the global corruption index. Transparency International (http://www.transparency.org/news/feature/land_and_corruption_a_global_concern ) highlights the issues within land and property reporting and transfer. For example in Kenya, where a 2010 raid uncovered thousands of land files locked in filing cabinets of public officials hoping to collect bribes, six in ten<http://archive.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases_nc/2010/2010_07_22_ti_kenya_eabi> land transfers were viewed as corrupt. A study<http://www.transparencyindia.org/resource/survey_study/India%20Corruption%20Study%202005.pdf> in India estimates that US$700 million worth of bribes are paid annually by users of the country's land administration services. This creates an extremely volatile and opaque land market in which internal and external investors can never really be sure what exactly they are investing in or if it even exists. This destabilises local and national land markets, investment markets, commodity prices, tenure and food security and ultimately economic development. Responsible governance of land is also at the core of resource management and sustainable extractive industries. Much of the headline challenges are well known to land professionals, from land grabbing, to tenure vulnerability, to ineffective land administration and corrupt governance and to a lack of professional capacity. At the 2015 World Bank Land conference Gregory Myers from Cloudburst, former head of Land at USAID reiterated the thoughts of many and outlined how this unacceptable risk in basic land information undermines social/political cohesion, economic development and investor confidence. The World Bank highlighted how Environmental, Social and Governmental (ESG) indicators are being increasingly used by governments, international agencies, multinational corporations and investors. The indicator that is missing is Land. To quote: 'the world needs a standardised land reporting framework.' So just what is ILMS So just what are we proposing to do to help create an effective and transparent land investment market? The ILMS coalition is formed of kindred national, regional and international bodies that all work within or are interested in the global land and resources sectors. These bodies have come together to tackle the development of a standardised Land reporting and ESG framework and would like to invite interested professional and technical institutions, learned associations and membership bodies to join in their efforts. ILMS is not really about spatial/physical measurement, measurement of land and particularly the 'mapping' of land by national agencies is generally understood in a very consistent, global way. ILMS is much more about the reporting framework that sits within effective and responsible land administration systems and the agreement on a standardised global framework. ILMS is directly linked to International Ethical Standards and IVS reporting mechanisms. We know that a strong international principles based standard focused on key land information elements is required to de-risk the process of transaction and will aid land tenure security, investment, government revenue raising and economic development. Just as other international standards such as IPMS, ICMS, IVS & IES de-risk and create a consistent and secure environment for property transactions so too will an international standard for land de-risk and create a consistent environment for land ownership, development and cross-border investment in developed and developing economies. The new Land standard seeks to engage all stakeholders in the land ownership, registration, measurement and transaction process. It will also help forge direct links between land professionals and financial reporting by de-risking the land transaction process for all parties and implementing an agreed land information reporting framework. ILMS is a standardised Land reporting framework to de-risk internal and external land and resource investment. Next steps The ILMS coalition is now reaching out to kindred national and international bodies to help grow the coalition. The coalition is developing a suite of online information such as FAQ's and relevant information. Several key events in the global land professional calendar will have ILMS roundtable meetings such as: World Bank Washington March 2016, FIG Christchurch May 2016 and UN Habitat Nairobi Nov 2016. The ILMS coalition will have its first physical meeting at FAO Rome in Spring 2016 (TBC) and form the Standards Setting Committee (SSC) and elect trustees in due course. For more information please contact James Kavanagh [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ILMS Coalition members (01st Nov 2015) Organisation Region/Country FIG Global Ordre Geometre Expert France BDVI Germany National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) USA American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA) USA APREA SE Asia FIABCI Australia South African Association of Surveyors/FIG South African Geomatics Institute (SAGI) South Africa School of Built Environment - India India CAAV UK CLGE Europe RICS Global Disclaimer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast. Mimecast delivers a complete managed email solution from a single web based platform. For more information please visit www.mimecast.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------