FIG President Stig Enemark attends Society of Chartered
Surveyors Conference 2008
Dublin, Ireland, 17 October 2008
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Conference brochure.
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Special Report of SCS in the Irish Times. |
FIG President Stig Enemark attended the Annual Conference of the
Society of Chartered Surveyors, Dublin, Ireland, 17 October, 2008, entitled
Ireland´s Future in a Global Economy.
The one-day conference included welcome address from SCS President
Sean McCormack and six key presentations addressing the conference
theme: David Drumm, talking about banking and property at home and
abroad; Prof. John Fitzgerald, addressing Ireland´s economic
performance on the world Stage; Tom Costello discussing the forecast
for Irish construction; John Bruder discussing Ireland in a global
economy from a developer's perspective; David Strahan, looking at the
global oil crisis and the life after oil; and FIG President Stig Enemark
talking about property development and the role of the global surveying
profession. Presentation will be available at the SCS website
http://www.scs.ie/.
The conference was very well attended and provided a useful insight on
the role and also opportunities of the surveying profession in Ireland
during the current financial crisis. President Enemark also took the
opportunity to explain the wider role of the surveying profession in the
area of Land Management and also in facing the global agenda in terms of the
Millennium Development Goals.
President Enemark also attended the event of the Michael Long Memorial
lecture on the evening before the conference and gave a key presentation
on the Role of the Surveying profession in Contributing to Society. Michael Long was the founder of the Land Surveying (Geomatics) division
in the Society of Chartered Surveyors and was strongly committed to the FIG
activities. The event was attend by about 30 invitees and was held at the
SCS headquarters in Dublin.
Finally, President Enemark gave a lecture to the students at Dublin
Institute of Technology that offers a key program in Surveying entitled:
Geomatics, Spatial Planning and Environmental Management.
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Right: SCS Director General
Ciara Murphy, FIG President Stig Enemark, SCS President
Sean McCormack, and Chair of
SCS Geomatics Division Audrey Martin. |
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