FIG Director visits the Swedish Surveying and Valuation
Conference
Stockholm, Sweden, 18-19 October 2006
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Mr. Svante Astermo, President of SLF closed
the conference by summaring all highlights of the conference to a poem. |
FIG Director Markku Villikka visited the Swedish Surveying and
Valuation Conference in Stockholm 18-19 October 2006. This annual natioanal
conference was attended by about 400 participants who listened for two days
on presentations on surveying, valuation and real estate management. Several
presentations were focussing on case studies on recent project and
legislation changes in Sweden. The presentation of the FIG Director was
about international trends and outcome from the FIG Congress in Munich that
ended the previous week. Even though the conference was a national event
there were some participants from other Nordic countries.
From international point of view the interesting feature in Sweden is
that about fifty per cent of surveyors are working in real estate business
and facility management. This was clearly seen also in the selection of
topics. The conference was organised jointly by the Sveriges
Lantmätareförening, SLF (The Swedish Association of Chartered Surveyors),
FIG's member association in Sweden and The Swedish Society of Real Estate
Economics (Samfundet för fastighetsekonomi). These two associations are on
the way to merge to one association within the next few years.
The conference was organised at the Stockholm City Conference Centre
(Folkets Hus) that will also be the venue of FIG Working Week 2008.
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which will also serve as the venue for FIG 2008. |
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Raoul Grünthal from Svenska Dagbladet made the closing keynote
address on media's role in decision making - who is running politics? |
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