President Magel visits RICS, ICES and meets with the ISPRS
President
London, United Kingdom, 2-3 December 2004
President Holger Magel and Director, FIG Office visited the two
FIG member associations in UK December 2-3, 2004. President Magel gave an
evening lecture at the RICS on the 2nd of December to an audience that
filled the Lecture Hall of RICS. The lecture "Surveyors and politics -
the need for dialogue" will be posted on this web site within short. The
lecture was followed by a reception and dinner which allowed discussions on
the co-operation between FIG and British surveyors.
Prof. Magel met with representatives of the Institution of Civil
Engineering Surveyors (ICES) Board in the morning December 3 at the house of
the Institution of Civil Engineers. The meeting was chaired by Robert
Fleming the newly appointed President of ICES.
The President further met with the RICS representatives led by
David
Powell, Chair of the Geomatics Faculty of RICS and other leaders of RICS
as well as RICS delegates and officers in FIG.
After meeting with ICES and RICS Prof. Magel met also Prof.
Ian Dowman,
President of ISPRS with whom the co-operation between these two sister
associations were discussed including the role of the Joint Board of
Information Societies and participation to the World Summit on Information
Society.
President
Holger Magel giving his evening lecture at the RICS. |
Prof.
Richard Bullard among others participated in the discussion
following the interesting presentation. |
Rob Mahoney presenting thanks of RICS to the President. |
Meeting with the ICES Board members at the ICE Headquarters. |
President
Robert Fleming (ICES) and President Holger Magel.
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Presidents Fleming and Magel together with the ICES representatives:
Alan Wright, Robert Fleming. Holger Magel and Kevin Blackwell
(front row) and Terry Smith, Bert Palmer, Jim Smith
and Mike Sutton. |
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President Magel and
David Powell, Chair of the Geomatics Faculty
of RICS at the balcony of RICS. |
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President Magel together with RICS representatives:
Iain Greenway,
Rob Mahoney, David Powell and James Kavanagh. |
Prof.
Ian Dowman, President of ISPRS and President Magel |
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