Surveyors' Work in Visual Inspection to Buildings - TVB News Interview
I was interviewed by TVB News on 10 August 2011 to give some description about surveyors' work in carrying out visual inspection to buildings. I hope that my explanation can help the public to understand more about our work thus enhancing our status in the society.

Promotion of Planning and Development Surveyors through Qianhai Shenzhen - Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone
As part of the work on promotion of Planning & Development (P&D) Surveyors in the mainland China market through the Qianhai platform, I have prepared an essay giving a brief description of our division and the works of P&D Surveyors in mainland market. The original was written in Chinese. Here below is the English version and would like to share with you:

Our Specialism
P&D Surveyors take the role as the overall planner & administrator of landed property development projects. The larger in scale of project is, more a P&D Surveyor can contribute.

P&D Surveyors can provide services and leadership in a development project in the following aspect:
1) Market analysis & forecast
2) Investment strategy planning
3) Proper phasing of development
4) Cash flow analysis & control
5) Harmonize different uses
6) Risk analysis & risk control
7) Design and construction administration
8) Sales planning
9) Planning for social awareness & environmental friendliness
10) Fulfillment of government planning requirements

These works are traditionally undertaken by different streams of professionals and overseen by the boss (investor) himself/herself. However, the current trend is that these works are best supervised and administered by a suitable professional. A P&D Surveyor, being a surveyor with high level knowledge and experience in all these aspect, is generally considered to be the most suitable person to take this post. The investor, after appointing such a suitable professional to oversee all these works, can be more relaxed and confident in making decisions. The decisions will be made with the support of through analysis and professional advice.

In short, the role of the P&D Surveyors is to assist clients to employ the best development strategy with justifications and maximize the development potential of a site for clients.
P&D Surveyors are working hard on and contributing on the sustainable development of the community.

Our History and Present Status
HKIS set up its Planning & Development Division in 2005. Up to now, this division has 52 professional grade members (Fellows & Members). This division has been well known for its high threshold in admitting new members. Members in this division are expected to process high level knowledge & experience in:
1) Project administration & management
2) Property market analysis & forecast
3) Investment strategy planning
4) Cash flow analysis & control
5) Government land use policy, aims & objectives
6) Buildings design & construction
7) Sales planning
8) Image building
9) Cost-in-use
10) Environmental & social awareness
11) Mediation skill
12) Other related matters

In the recent years, our members have been very active in providing development planning consultancy services to large scale development projects in both Mainland China & Hong Kong.

Entry to Mainland China Market
Based on the platform provided by Qianhai, we hope that we can market and provide our professional services to clients (including both public and private sectors) in mainland China better.