 ELECTION OF GENERAL BOARD MEMBERS
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| FOR THE PERIOD 01 MARCH 2010 TO 29 FEBRUARY 2012 The following members have been elected to the Board for the above period in terms of the stated clauses of the Constitution:
Clause 8.1.2.1 & 2 – Executive Positions President Elect | Mr Gert Meyer | Vice President Elect | Ms Josephine Llale | Deputy Vice President | To be elected from Board members | Immediate Past President | Mr Indresen Pillay |
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Clause 8.1.2.3 – Chapter Representatives Eastern Cape | Mr Michael Raaff | Free State | Mr Pierre Oosthuizen | Gauteng | Mr Qinisani Mbatha | Gauteng | Ms Nonkululeko Ntshona | KwaZulu Natal | Ms Elke Hefer | Limpopo | Ms Tina van der Merwe | Mpumalanga | Mr Jurgens Hanekom | Northern Cape | Ms Elmarie Deetlefs | Northwest | Mr Herman Schoeman | Western Cape | Mr Deon Vermeulen |
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Clause 8.1.2.4 – Representatives of Divisions Clause 8.1.2.5 - 6 Additional members to be elected.
You are now invited to nominate a candidate or candidates from amongst the PMAQS and MAQS members of the Association for election as members of the Board for the above period in terms of clause 8.1.2.5 of the Constitution.
All candidates for election must be nominated and seconded in writing and each candidate must signify his/her acceptance by signing the nomination form.
Please note that the nomination forms must be faxed back to the offices of the Association (Attention: Mr Egon Wortmann – fax 011 315 3785) by not later than
Wednesday 17 February 2010 Your earliest response in this regard would be appreciated. To download a copy of the Nomination Form, please click here. | |
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THE ASAQS "CENTENARY PUBLICATION" NOW AVAILABLE !! | |
| We are pleased to announce that the long awaited ASAQS Centenary Publication has been completed and copies of same are now available for purchase from the ASAQS offices. This represents the culmination of a very long and painstaking process – but it has certainly been worth all the effort !! We are very pleased with the final result and we invite you to get your copies to share in the joy and excitement of the publication.
We have taken receipt of all the ordered copies from the printers and these are now for sale to members and non-members alike. The cost of these publications are as follows: - R300,00 (inclusive of VAT) per copy – across the ASAQS counter
- R350,00 (Inclusive of VAT and postage) per copy – if posted as counter to counter parcel (normal post)
Should members wish to have the publications posted by courier, then the additional postage costs for speedier services will be for the account of the purchaser. These publications will also be made available (in limited numbers due to practical restrictions) for sale to the members during the Forthcoming Presidential Tour (refer article above).
We wish to point out that the ASAQS office is currently making final arrangements to streamline the purchase and dispatch of these publications to the members. The entire process in terms of placing the orders, the payment thereof and ultimately the dispatch of the publications to the members will be online and web-based to ensure that any inconvenience is kept to an absolute minimum.
Click here to view a copy of the dust jacket | |
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FORUM OF QS PRACTICES : NOTICE OF MEETING : 23.02.2010 | |
| Registered QS practices who wish to send a representative to the next QS Forum should please diarise Tuesday 23 February 2010 when the next Forum meeting will take place at the offices of the ASAQS at 15h00. Please click here for the Minutes of Meeting 9 Please click here for the Agenda for the 10th meeting | |
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COMBINED PRESIDENTS / VICE PRESIDENTS TOUR 2010 | |
| Members are advised that the combined Presidents/Vice Presidents Tour is well underway and the first three visits to the Free State, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga Chapters respectively have been concluded. The touring party undertaking these trips is comprised of the following persons :
* Mr Indresen Pillay (President of ASAQS)
* Mr Gert Meyer (Vice President of the ASAQS)
* Mr Egon Wortmann (Executive Director of ASAQS)
The programme for this combined trip is planned for the months of January/February 2010 so that the tour may be timeously completed before the next ASAQS Board scheduled for 11/12 March 2010. The final programme of the Presidents/Vice Presidents Tour 2010 (already partially completed) is as follows: | CITY | CHAPTER | WEEKDAY | DATE | 1 | BLOEMFONTEIN | FREE STATE | MONDAY | 25-Jan-10 | 2 | KIMBERLEY | NORTHERN CAPE | TUESDAY | 26-Jan-10 | 3 | NELSPRUIT | MPUMALANGA | THURSDAY | 28-Jan-10 | 4 | POLOKWANE | LIMPOPO | FRIDAY | 29-Jan-10 | 5 | DURBAN | KWAZULU NATAL | MONDAY | 08-Feb-10 | 6 | PORT ELIZABETH | EASTERN CAPE | TUESDAY | 09-Feb-10 | 7 | CAPE TOWN | WESTERN CAPE | WEDNESDAY | 10-Feb-10 | 8 | MIDRAND | GAUTENG | FRIDAY | 12-Feb-10 | 9 | MAFIKENG | NORTH WEST | FRIDAY | 19-Feb-10 | 10 | WINDHOEK | NAMIBIA | FRIDAY | 26-Feb-10 |
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This tour which will enable the ASAQS members to meet with the ASAQS executive members and to share their experiences, expectations and concerns with each other. We appeal to members to support these functions in their respective region and to maximise on the benefits that can be derived from such a tour.
The programme of events in each region will be made available to the members in each region in good time before the arrival of the delegation. We look forward to seeing you there !! | |
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PHOTOS TAKEN DURING THE TOUR | |
| The programme of events in each region was a mixture of serious business and some fun and pleasure. During the visit to Bloemfontein, the opportunity was afforded the ASAQS President to hand over and present the following three national prizes to the local recipients, all of which hailed from the Free State this year. They were: - Gold Medal Award – Mr Herman Berry
- DJ Laing Memorial Scholarship – Ms Hananja Steyn
- Davis Langdon Prize – Mrs Olive du Preez
Congratulations to the University of Free State - a truly remarkable achievement !! 
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| ASAQS President presenting the Gold Medal Award to the parents of Herman Berry (Frank and Lieze'l Berry). Sadly Herman could not be in attendance. | ASAQS President presenting the DJ Laing Memorial Scholarship to the Ms Hananja Steyn | 
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| ASAQS President presenting the Davis Langdon Prize to Mrs Olive du Preez. | ASAQS President presenting a complimentary copy of the ASAQS Centenary Publication, to senior representatives of the Department of Public Works & Rural Development in Bloemfontein | 
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| The ASAQS Touring Party having some fun with the young ladies that performed a CanCan dancing show during the social evening in Kimberley. |
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GAUTENG AGM AND CPD SEMINAR | |
| 12 FEBRUARY 2010 at 7:00 – 09:30 (6:30 for 7:00, Breakfast 08:45) The Gauteng Chapter are combining their AGM and ASAQS Presidential visit with a CPD seminar on the 12th of February 2010. The seminar is a CIDB Information session presented by Mr. Erastus Mwanaumo. The AGM and seminar will be held at the Johannesburg Auckland Park Country Club and will start at 7:00 for more information click here. | |
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KZN CHAPTER UPDATE | |
| The KZN Chapter homepage has been updated with photographs taken at the end of year banquet in 2009. Thanks to Karlien for supplying us with this update. At present only the Gauteng and KZN Chapters have home pages. Should any of the other chapters wish to showcase their events they are more than welcome to contact the ASAQS Webmaster in this regard. | |
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ASAQS SENIOR MEMBERSHIP AWARDS 2010 | |
| We are this year awarding twelve members with their Senior Membership for 40 years of continuous and uninterrupted membership with the Association. We would like to congratulate them on this fantastic achievement and wish to thank them for their loyal and ongoing support of the Association over the last 40 years.
The following members will be presented with their Senior Membership Awards during the forthcoming Presidential Tour (refer article above):
Free State Chapter
Mr EE Hattingh Gauteng North Chapter
Mr JJH de Villiers
Mr JH du Plessis
Mr DJ Reid
Gauteng South Chapter
Mr F Barnard
Western Cape Chapter
Mr LS Evans
Mr ID Laurenson
Mrs MA Mortelmans
Mr JB van Dijken
KZN Chapter
Mr AG Binge
Mr RG Turner
Mr RJ Webber
These members will be presented their awards and certificates during the forthcoming Presidential Tour, as far as possible. The ASAQS will be contacting them all individually to invite them to the local AGM's to receive their awards from the President. But should you have any contact with them also, please feel free invite them as well, just to make certain of their attendance. | |
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EXPERIENCING CUG PROBLEMS? | |
| We only recently discovered that MWeb moved the site to a new server without notifying us. This has resulted in total chaos as updates that were done on the old server were not copied to the new server. You may have seen older versions of pages on the website with links that either opened incorrect (outdated) documents or did not resolve at all.
What compounded our frustration is that a lot of members were, or still are, unable to enter the CUG. This is mostly due to the fact that new members were added on the old server and an outdated version of the CUG database was ported to the new server by MWeb.
If you experience problems entering the CUG please contact the ASAQS offices on 011-3154140 so that they can check whether you are in fact registered in the new CUG database.
The ASAQS wishes to apologise to the members for any inconvenience caused as a result of these IT problems and we thank you for your patience whilst the problems were being attended to. We trust that the situation will be back to normal in due course !! | |
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REVISED TARIFF OF QS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 2010 | |
| Members are advised that the updated Recommended Tariff of QS Professional Fees 2010 was submitted to the Government printers for gazetting on Friday 4 December 2009 and will come into effect on 01 January 2010. Amendments to the 2009 Tariff of Professional Fees published in Government Gazette No 32753 of 4 December 2009 as Board Notice 163 of 2009 are included therein.
Copies of the Recommended Tariff of QS Professional Fees 2010 are available on the ASAQS (www.asaqs.co.za) and SACQSP (www.sacqsp.org.za) websites. We would strongly urge members to familiarise themselves with this new and updated document and to use this as the basis for all new appointments on projects in the New Year.
The new tariff is available from the website of the SACQSP or can also be downloaded from the CUG. | |
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SALARY SURVEY 2009 | |
| We are happy to announce that the draft report of the "ASAQS Salary Survey 2009" has been made available to the offices of the ASAQS for final review and approval. The draft report is currently being reviewed by the responsible persons on the ASAQS Fees Committee and the final copy will be completed within the next few days and made available to all practices that contributed information to the ASAQS.
We look forward to the imminent release of this report with great anticipation.
We wish to express our thanks to all practices that took the time and trouble to submit the details of their remuneration packages of their employed staff to the ASAQS. Your input is acknowledged and sincerely appreciated. Without your assistance this survey would not have been possible. | |
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STRIKING OF MEMBERS AND PRACTICES... | |
| DUE TO NON-PAYMENT OF FEES Members are advised that in spite of numerous requests and appeals to some members and practices to pay their outstanding fees due to the ASAQS, it has sadly resulted in some members and practices recently having been struck from the membership roll of the ASAQS due to their ongoing non-payment of fees. This action was undertaken in terms of clause 6.5 of the Constitution of the Association.
The Board of the ASAQS resolved during the ASAQS Board meeting held on 07 and 08 October 2008 that any member that had not fully paid his/her outstanding fees for the period in question (end of financial year 2008/2009) would be struck from the ASAQS membership roll and have his/her membership cancelled without further notice. The same applies to QS practices that have also not met their financial obligations towards the ASAQS.
In the event that members and/or practices may believe that they have already paid some or all of the above outstanding fees, we would appeal to such members/practices to please contact the offices of the ASAQS without delay so that any possible misunderstanding may be amicably sorted out. Any queries in this regard should be directed at Ms Merilda Naicker (telephone 011 - 315 4140) at the ASAQS offices.
Nonetheless, should any already struck member/practice wish to have the former membership reinstated, this is still possible subject to all outstanding fees being settled in full and the payment of a penalty fee of R500,00 (net). On the payment of these amounts, all records will be amended to the former status that existed prior to the point of being struck.
Is your name on the list ?
To view the complete list of the struck members, please click here. To view the complete list of the struck practices, please click here. | |
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STANDARD PROJECT NOTICE BOARD ADOPTED | |
| Members are advised that during recent meetings of the BEP Grouping is was agreed by all the participating associations to again adopt a standard design of the "Project Notice Board". This was in place some years ago, but sadly this standardised approach has not always been adhered to on many projects.
It was resolved that all the members of the participating member associations be encouraged to again comply with the use of the standard design adopted. To view the master design, complete with some explanatory notes, please visit the CUG. | |
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PANEL OF ARBITRATORS | |
| The Association head office periodically gets calls from members of the public requesting names of suitable Arbitrators/Mediators/Adjudicators to assist on projects where disputes have arisen. Although many of our Quantity Surveying members may well be suited for such appointments, a list of separately compiled "Recommended Panel of Arbitrators" was needed to assist with such enquiries. When such enquiries are received, the persons making the appeal can then be presented with the complete list of all suitable persons that may be in a position to undertake such arbitration work, and everybody is given a fair opportunity to be offered such work through the assistance of the ASAQS.
An appeal was extended to all our members who are qualified, willing and able to act as Arbitrators/Mediators/Adjudicators to contact the Executive Director, Mr Egon Wortmann (telephone 011 – 315 4140) so that their names be placed on the panels of suitable Arbitrators/Mediators/Adjudicators. Following on this, the list of suitable candidates was prepared on a region-by-region basis. Should the Association then subsequently be approached for recommendations of suitable candidates, the persons requiring such names will simply be furnished with the relevant panel with the complete list of Arbitrators willing to operate in the applicable region. Members were requested to clearly stipulate in which Chapter area/s they would be willing to accept such arbitration appointments.
To view this "Recommended Panel of Arbitrators", please click here. | |
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WHERE TO PURCHASE YOUR CONTRACT DOCUMENTS ? | |
| Following on numerous enquiries from members as to where they can purchase the various and different forms of contract, we have prepared the following easy-to-read schedule that will assist in this regard. CONTRACT DOCUMENTS | AVAILABLE FROM | CONTACT DETAILS | JBCC CONTRACTS | ASAQS | 011 315 4140 | PROCSA CLIENT/CONSULTANT AGREEMENTS
(entire suite of documents) | ASAQS | 011 315 4140 | NEC (New Engineering Contract) | SAICE | 011 805 5947/8 | FIDIC | CESA | 011 463 2022 | GCC (General Conditions of Contract - Civil) | SAICE | 011 805 5947/8 |
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This schedule can also be downloaded in PDF-format by clicking here. | |
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF FORTHCOMING CONGRESSES | |
| In order to assist members to plan their diaries this year in terms of forthcoming congresses and conferences they may wish to attend, attached the preliminary dates of some of these congresses for your attention (more details to follow): Energy Indaba 2010 - "A Time for Change"
24 to 26 February 2010 – Sandton Convention Centre, South Africa AAQS/IBQS Joint Conference and Executive Committee Meeting
• Exco Meeting : Thursday 4 March 2010
• Conference : Friday 5 March 2010
• Gabarone, Botswana AAQS Board Meeting
• Thursday 11 March 2010
• Friday 12 March 2010
• ASAQS Offices, Bekker Road, Midrand GAMA Conference & AGM 2010 - "The Engineer as a Strategic Partner"
14 to 17 March 2010 – Mombasa, Kenya ICEC World Congress 2010
23 to 27 July 2010 – Singapore
Please click here to register ICEC World Congress 2012
23 to 26 June 2012 – Durban, South Africa Members are encouraged to plan ahead and to support these conferences/congresses !! | |
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Membership forms, fees, etc. | |
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CHAPTER CHAIRPERSONS | |
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The Association of South African Quantity Surveyors
Postal address:
P.O. Box 3527
Halfway House 1685
Physical address:
Suite G6, Building 27
Thornhill Office Park
Bekker Road,
Vorna Valley Ext 21,
MIDRAND
Contact details:
Telephone : 011-3154140
Fax : 011-3153785
E-mail : association@asaqs.co.za
Office hours:
08h00 to 17h00
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