RAKI 30TH ANNIVERSARY - Rakennusinsinoori•The need for global standards • Overarching principles • Collaboration with others RICS INTERNATIONAL VISION RAKI, HELSINKI, 20TH MARCH

Quantity Surveyors in the 21st Century:

Robust or Redundant?

RAKI 30TH ANNIVERSARY

Justin Sullivan BSc.QS MRICS ACIArb MEWI RICS QS WORLD BOARD MEMBER

CEEC GENERAL SECRETARY

HELSINKI, 20th March 2013

RAKI, HELSINKI, 20TH MARCH 2013

KOOP

INTRODUCTION

• Member of RICS UK QS & Construction Professional Group Board

• CEEC


CONTEXT

• Challenges to the professions

• Demographics

• Commodisation of the service

• Globalisation


RICS MEMBERSHIP 2012

UK ‐ 70%

OVERSEAS

RICS MEMBERSHIP 2022?

UK?

OVERSEAS?

• Public sector accountability

• Cost planning and analysis

• Cost Control

• Strategic focus

THE QUANTITY SURVEYOR / CONSTRUCTION ECONOMIST



• Conduct, aims and qualities

• Continuous learning

• Disciplined minds

PROFESSIONALISM: WHAT IS IT?


• Hippocratic oath

• Components: honesty, integrity, accountability

• Codes of conduct

ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM


• Mandatory for all members since June 2007

• Proportionality, Accountability, Consistency, Targeting and Transparency

RICS & ETHICS


• Complexity

• Technology

• Collaboration

• Education and skills

• Legal

• Environmental

DRIVERS OF CHANGE


• Off site fabrication

• Robotics

• Computer capacity

TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES


• Process and collaboration

• Catalyst for change

• Rapidly developing

BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING (BIM)


• Lessons from other industries

• Team working and the ‘T’ shaped professional

COLLABORATION


• Soft skills

• Technology

• Infrastructure

CHANGING SKILLS


• The need for global standards

• Overarching principles

• Collaboration with others

RICS INTERNATIONAL VISION


• Black Book

• NRM

• Research papers and COBRA 2013

RICS GUIDANCE AND RESEARCH


• Web classes

• Business Information Modelling (BIM)

RICS TRAINING


• Graduate entry

• Senior Professional Route

• Professional Experience Route

• AssocRICS

• MRICS

• FRICS

RICS QUALIFICATIONS


• Website

• E‐newsletters

• Technical Journals

• Conferences

RICS COMMUNICATION


• It is up to us!

• Global perspective

• Upskill

• Global construction to grow from $7.2 trillion to $12 trillion by 2020 – a huge opportunity for us all

ROBUST OR REDUNDANT?


“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” ― Charles Darwin



QUESTIONS


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RAKI 30TH ANNIVERSARY - Rakennusinsinoori•The need for global standards • Overarching principles • Collaboration with others RICS INTERNATIONAL VISION RAKI, HELSINKI, 20TH MARCH