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Standards - their relevance to surveyors and FIG’s response

Standards - their relevance to surveyors and FIG’s response. Iain Greenway Chair, FIG Standards Network. Key questions. What are standards? Why are they important? What value can professionals add? What is FIG doing about it?. The world of standards. What are standards?.

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Standards - their relevance to surveyors and FIG’s response

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  1. Standards - their relevance to surveyors and FIG’s response Iain Greenway Chair, FIG Standards Network

  2. Key questions • What are standards? • Why are they important? • What value can professionals add? • What is FIG doing about it?

  3. The world of standards

  4. What are standards? • ‘Accepted or approved example’ • ‘Level of excellence or quality’ • ‘Specifications... to be used consistently as... guidelines… to ensure fitness for purpose…’

  5. Their growing importance • Globalisation • Competition laws • Consumer requirements • Technological developments • Intertwining of industries

  6. Some figures • Breadth of coverage • 430,608 pages in 13,544 ISO standards • Economic benefits • $15 billion per annum in Germany

  7. Standardisation bodies • ISO • National bodies • IVSC • Governments • Companies • Other bodies • WTO

  8. Shortcomings • Politics • Time • Ignorance

  9. The relevance to surveyors • TC172 • survey instruments • TC211 (TC287) • > 30 standards • all aspects of GI • coming our way now • IVS’2000/01/02 • the white book • here now

  10. FIG’s response

  11. FIG Policy • Assisting in the process of creating workable and timely standards • Moving de facto standards to official standards

  12. Roles for professionals • Proposing material for transformation • Assisting in the creation of workable and current standards • Creating guidance material

  13. FIG work to date • Setting up a Task Force • Ascertaining the need • Gaining a profile • Offering material • Building links • Producing a Guide

  14. The Guide • Introduction • Policy • Strategies • including current players, and how ISO works • Roles • Further information

  15. Ongoing FIG work - its Network • Bringing Commission work together • Strengthening links with sister societies • Building links with ISO and IVSC • TC211 - Outreach, qualifications, etc • Promoting best practice • Communications

  16. Why should FIG be involved? • Ensuring standards developers know members’ needs • Improved standards • Improved survey practice • Improved bottom line

  17. Key points • Standards are important • Professionals can plug shortcomings • FIG has become a respected player • But…. there is more work to be done

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