Past-president of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors 1998 / 1999
a Registered Quantity Surveyor and Managing Director of Schoombie Hartmann, Quantity Surveyors, an international firm of Registered Quantity Surveyors with fourteen branch offices in South Africa and elsewhere
Director of companies and chairman of numerous boards of directors of organisations holding extensive business and commercial interests throughout South Africa
Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
He is a member of:
South African Council for Quantity Surveyors (alternate)
Board of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors and serves on the Executive Committee and the Marketing (Standing) Committee of the Board
Association of Arbitrators
Institute of South African Property Practitioners
He successfully completed the post-graduate programmes in:
Advanced Management, offered by the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa (UNISA) in 1989 / 1990
Executive Management for Growing Organisations (EPGO) at Stanford University in the United States of America in 1994
Solly Preller has:
participated extensively in the management and administration of the quantity surveying profession at all levels, local, provincial and national
contributed to tertiary professional/academic development through his appointments as external examiner of M Sc (QS) dissertations and Ph D theses at the Universities of Pretoria and the Orange Free State
In 1978, Solly married Marile, and they have one daughter, Claudi-Mari
Solly Prller was born in Welkom in the Free State, where he attended the Hoërskool Gimnasium.
He is a graduate of the University of the Orange Free State, where he was awarded the degree of: Bachelor of Science in Quantity Surveying B Sc (QS) in 1978 Master of Science in Quantity Surveying M Sc (QS) in 1988 Doctor of Philosophy Ph D in 1993
In 1990. he was nominated by the Welkom Publicity Association as a finalist for the Achiever of the Year Award