‘Set up body to regulate activities of surveyors’
The Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS) has called on the government to establish a body that will regulate the activities of surveyors.
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“Surveying is at the heart of every infrastructural project and, thus, there is the need to regulate the operations of surveyors to curb the activities of those without the requisite expertise and qualification,” it said.
Regulation
Addressing a news conference in Accra Monday to launch the 11th Surveyors Week and 47th Annual General Meeting of the association, the President of the GhIS, Mr Ekow Badu-Anguah, said the absence of a body backed by law to regulate surveying was the biggest challenge facing the profession.
That, he said, had led to many people patronising the services of unqualified surveyors which had resulted in many land disputes and the haphazard construction of infrastructure in the country.
“Unlike other professions such as medicine and law, surveyors are not regulated by any institution. The public, therefore, mostly relies on the services of quack surveyors,” he said.
Collaboration
The Surveyors Week and the AGM, which will be marked from February 22 to 27, are on the theme: “Built environment professionals collaboration for national development”.
Mr Badu-Anguah explained that the theme for the one-week event was a rallying cry for all stakeholders in the construction industry to come together and ensure that the appropriate standards and regulations were applied in all aspects of construction to prevent incidents of buildings collapsing, adding, “Development is a complex mix which requires the involvement and collaboration of all the relevant professionals.”
Lift up your game
On ways of checking the collapse of buildings, Mr Badu-Anguah advised all professionals in the construction industry to “lift up their game” by adhering to standards.
