Professional Association
•(B.I.G) or Brunei Instituition of
Geomatic
•2003
the following core professions
• Land & Hydrographic Surveyors
• Geographical Information Systems Managers
• Urban & Rural Planners
• Property & Asset Managers (including Land
Valuers, Land Economists & Real Estate
Managers)
Objective
• To promote and advance the science, practice and application of geomatics
• To encourage communication between persons charged with the technical
responsibility for the planning, design and execution of the practice of geomatics.
• To obtain and disseminate among the members, information on geomatics and
related matters affecting the profession
• To educate and seek to improve, extend and elevate the technical and general
knowledge of members and persons concerned with the geomatics.
• To serve as a focal point for exchange of ideas related to geomatics.
• To conduct, encourage and collate reseach in geomatics.
• To establish, form and maintain in index of available or existing literature and
articles on interest in connection with geomatics.
• To cooperate, as may seem conducive to any of these objects, with national and
international organisations and to support and supplement their work.
• To promote the general interests of the profession and to maintain and extend its
usefulness for the public advantage.
• To conduct professional development programmes by organising training, seminar
and conference locally or internationally
Membership
• Fellows
• Professional Members
• Technical Members
• Associate Members
• Honorary Fellows
• Graduate Members, Probationers and Students
Membership fees
Member Class Application Fee Annual Fee
Fellow BND 100.00 BND 105.00
Member BND 75.00 BND 84.00
Graduate BND 50.00 BND 70.00
Associate BND 40.00 BND 56.00
Student BND 10.00 BND 14.00
Qualifying as Licensed land Surveyor
• at least attained the age of 21 years old
• good character
• has passed a professional examination recognized
by the Board
• and a member of one of the Professional Body
accepted to the Board
• The applicant must also show evidence of the
previous professional practice in title survey
either in Brunei Darussalam or a state or Territory
operating a similar title system.
qualifications recognized by the Land
Surveyors Board include
• Degree of Bachelor in Surveying conferred by an Australian
or New Zealand university or institute of technology
• Diploma in Land Surveying from Australia or New Zealand
acceptable by the Board of Surveyors of Australia and New
Zealand
• Final Examination (Land Surveying) of the Royal Institution
of Chartered Surveyors of the United Kingdom
• . Land Surveyors Examination of Australia and
• New Zealand; and e. Any other qualifications acceptable to
the Board as equivalent to one of the above.