Commission 1 Professional Standards and Practice

• Ethical principles and codes of professional conduct
• Guidelines relating to the provision of services
• Standards of business practice and total quality management
• Changes affecting the operation of surveying practices, their management and their professional structures
• International legislation affecting the profession including the liberalisation of trade in services
• The role of surveyors in the public sector.

• Needs of changing society - New skills, competences in surveying
• Maintenance of surveying curricula
• Life-long learning - educational and training services
• Changing role of the academic staff
• Good educational practices
• e-Learning - content development methods, tools, student support
• Learning management systems
• Interoperability of teaching materials
• Quality assurance mechanisms in education and training
• Knowledge management in surveying
• Educational management
• Experiences in recruitment and marketing
• Continuing professional development
• The future of young surveyors (students)
• ALUMNI and the use its power
• Networking in education and training

• Developing Awareness and Capacity Building in SIM
• Educational and research aspects in SIM
• SIM Policies (commercialization of spatial information, pricing policies for geo-data, access to information, etc)
• Good e-Governance, efficient and effective authorities, SDI supporting decision making, democracy, and economic growth
• Country profiles in SDI developments, international and interregional cooperation, GSDI, harmonization of SDIs embracing cultural differences
• Economic aspects within SDI community, financing SDIs, cost effective fundamental spatial data production and management
• New trends in public-public cooperation and public-private partnerships in SDI
• Technical aspects, integration of information, 3D/4D applications of SDI, visualization of information, seamless information management
• Metadata development, portals and clearinghouses
• Standardization of information (technical, legal, semantics and ontology)
• Web-GIS and services
• SIM in housing management, land use zoning and monitoring, upgrading informal settlements, mega-cities management, rural reforms, urban/rural markets, real estate management, valuation and real property taxation systems
• SIM in the marine environment, seamless coastal and marine data management
• SIM in world¡¦s cultural heritage management (spatial information systems and techniques for documentation, visualization and management)
• SIM in disaster mitigation and environmental impact assessment
• SIM in navigation, traffic management, utilities and telecommunication, and mobile mapping

• Hydrographic Surveying in Practice
• Standards and Guidelines
• Economic Benefits of Hydrography
• Capacity Building in Hydrography
• Coastal Zone Management

• Calibration, Verification and Check of Measurement systems
• Investigations on Terrestrial Laser scanning systems
• GNSS
• GNSS / Reference Frame and Infrastructure
• Mobile mapping

• Deformation measurement and landslide monitoring
• Construction and monitoring of large bridges
• Survey for research and industry
• Laser scanning for engineering survey
• Facility management for large cities and industry parks
• Surveying of large construction, site surveying
• Mine surveying

• Land administration supporting economic growth
• Sustainable land administration and good governance
• Land administration and land management in customary and informal areas
• Creation rebuild land administration after conflicts
• Relation land administration and disaster management
• Low cost data acquisition (geometric, legal) registration and mapping
• Low cost, innovative tools for land management and land administration
• How to manage land use and informal urbanisation in developing countries
• Identification and defining parcel boundaries
• Develop marine cadastre to support coastal zone management
• 3 D Cadastre, Land registry
• Electronic conveyancing and governance
• Land valuation and taxation

• Strategies for sustainable development
• Informal settlement issues in spatial development, planning and governances
• Mega cities including communities which inhabit them
• Disaster management in a global village
• Renewables and recyclables in a global village
• Coastal settlements and climate change issues

• Compulsory Purchase and Compensations in Land Acquisition and Takings
• Improving Slum Conditions through Innovative Financing
  • Mortgage market and microfinance - what could guarantee funds achieve?
  • Is securing tenure and land titles the key to efficient finance and housing?
  • Sustainable cities- focusing on how financing structure and local norms affect the environment, social structure and economy
• Diagnostic Tools and Prescriptive Practices for the Valuation Profession
• Legal structures and practices in the valuation profession in different countries / markets
• Status of the valuation profession in different countries / markets
• Valuation methodologies adopted in different countries / markets
• Changing transaction practices in real estate markets
• Globalising real estate market
• Geostatistics in Real Estate Market Analyses and Valuation
• Effects and possibilities of digitalisation for of the profession in real estate markets
• New ways to make real estate market analyses and valuations
• Outsourcing corporate properties and real estate services
• University education in Real Estate Economics and Valuation

• Construction Economics
• Commercial Management
• Project and Programme Management