26/04/2025
Professional Standards vs Minimum Standards.
I recently watched a post from a builder undertaking rectification works on a significant house build. He highlighted the problems being fixed, but also highlighted that the Building Regulations are the "Minimum Building Standards" and how quality new builds should not be focussed on meeting the minimum required standard, but should be well and truely exceeding them.
Surveying also has minimum standards set by the Surveyors Registration Board in each State.
Our role as Professional Surveyors is not just to export a survey standard that achieves the minimum, but to export a survey that will meet and satisfy our clients needs for the duration of their project, the community expectation, and considers the expected "currency" of the survey in the area being worked.
In an urban area undergoing infill development, there may be a new infill subdivision occuring every 1-2 years in the same street.
In a rural area, which is an environment that we frequently work, our survey may be the first survey in the area for the last 30 to 100 years, and may not have another survey undertaken in the same area for the next 20 years or longer.
Licensed Surveyors set & follow our own personally developed "Professional Standards and Values" and not just set out to achieve the bare minimum standards as set by the Board, which havn't considered site characteristics, project characteristics or the longevity of currency expected for that particular survey area.
