President’s Message
CIQS and its professionals are ‘best in class’ Royston P. Lewis, PQS(F) Thanks to the mandate you prot is both an honour and a pleasure to deliver this vided at the AGM in Jamaica, the Institute is about to enter into the next first message of my Presistage of its development bolstered by dency to you the members a new and vibrant image. Combined of our venerable institution. Sadly we with this new image is a strategy to bid farewell to Gordon Pattison who has served so long as our guide and energize the services which we deliver – our mandate is to add real value to mentor. His passing leaves a big gap the construction process – from proin our living heritage and we intend to ject conception and final delivery on to establish a memorial to continue his the continuing use of the facility. Our legacy. We bid adieu to Chris Reinert standards will not change - indeed and thank him for his vision and drive they are more likely to be enhanced to with the Marketing Initiative and welensure continuity of quality and subcome Dave Burns as the latest memstance across our great country. We ber of Council. The AGM in Beaches, live in exciting times – our certified Sandy Bay, Jamaica was a great sucprofessionals are recognized as the cess and, as with all other AGMs, the source of real quality in quantity suropportunity to bond with new friends veying and estimating services across and consolidate old friendships was Canada and through our partnerships ever present. We were the recipients in the international arena we are recof two excellent presentations by Naognized as ‘best in class professionals’ talie Alexander and Edward Traore in most other countries of the world. and hopefully this trend of seminar This is a wonderful compliment to delivery by our own members will you7/25/11 the membership continue –Construction we have a Economist vast collection of Summer 2011.pdf 9:53:23 AM and to our educational and continuing professional knowledge and experience to share.
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development standards. We can and should be proud of our achievements. However, with this recognition comes the responsibility of continuing best in class delivery of service and it will be up to us all as members of the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors to work diligently to ensure the quality and depth of our service is maintained. Council will be working closely with all the Affiliates to develop a national strategy for the Institute. This will not mean that the status of the Affiliates will in any way be diminished - to the contrary, the continued existence and full cooperation of each Affiliate will be of vital importance to ensure delivery and exposure of our national identity at the regional level. As we progress this strategy, you will all be included in the process. Council involvement is becoming more and more demanding and communication by electronic media facilitates Council activity and decision making. We are establishing initiatives to enhance the profile of the Institute – both internally and externally. The website and server will be upgraded and modernized; new membership application assessment and processing will be consolidated to ensure continuity and equity in entry standards; all levels of government and industry will be given the opportunity to understand the services that we deliver, and we will be reaching out to similar associations to explore synergies in membership and service delivery. Finally, on behalf of Council, I confirm our commitment to represent you the members in all that we undertake. Our goals are common and simple and are reflected in our mandate to provide the very best of professional quantity surveying and estimating services to the public and private sectors and industry. Click Here to Return to Table of Contents
