An event devoted to best practices i nteh field of geodesy
On September 14-15, Romania’s capital Bucharest played host to the International Symposium ‘GeoPrevi 2017’. Some 200 surveyors, land administration, spatial planning and development and land valuation specialists from around 10 countries attended the most important geodesy event in Romania this year. The meeting focused on major current issues, with a powerful impact on Romanian society, such as land titles, land planning, real estate evaluation and the impact of the national Land Registry Programme on these fields in which geodesy specialists carry out their activity. Here is Gheorghe Boeru, one of the participants, speaking about the company he set up 20 years ago:
“RomAir Consulting established the first Phare Infrastructure Programme in Romania, as well as the first ISPA programme and the first programmes under the Sectoral Operational Programme ‘Environment and Transport’. Out of 8 EU projects with values higher than 50 million Euros, we developed five. In the 2007-2014 framework, we implemented 3.8 billion Euro worth of projects in fields such as the environment, water and waste water management, transportation, in the building of 10 km of motorway, 28 km of national roads, as well as in school, hospital and beach refurbishment projects. We have extended Romania’s territory by 60 square km by modernizing the beaches in the Black Sea Resorts of Mamaia, Eforie and Tomis-Constanta, and the EU has approved the second stage, for Eforie Nord, Eforie Sud and down to Vama Veche resorts. These are infrastructure projects aimed at benefiting the population. Today, the company has 238 employees and we also have a school of design in Iasi, with 54 people. For this event, we have designed pilot projects and hazard maps to help the population and prevent situation like those in which their houses are taken by floods. We have developed hydro-geological projects to support municipalities, especially those in the areas that are confronted with landslides. We also have water supply and sewerage system projects for 8 counties in Romania”.
Theotop is Romania’s oldest company in the field of land registry, topography and geodesy. According to its director, Valeriu Manolache, who is also president of the Employers’ Association for Land Registry, Geodesy and Cartography, since its foundation in 1990, the company has been involved in several international projects.
“There are two land registry projects that we have carried out in 14 communes in 9 counties. Starting 2005 we have run aerial photography projects jointly with foreign companies; these World Bank-sponsored projects have been carried out on large areas in Romania, two thirds of its territory. Besides these projects we have introduced real estate registries in over 15 municipalities in Romania and since 2010 we have been involved in a project entitled ‘systematic land registry run by the National Land Registry Office.”
During the symposium, Valeriu Manolache has also referred to an extremely important project Romania should implement, namely the completion of a survey of all plots of land and dwelling places in order to get a glimpse of the situation we are currently facing.
“We have tackled three major issues during the symposium: improving and streamlining the legislation framework, because in the past decade, the land registry law has seen a lot of amendments. The second major issue is represented by technical regulations. A set of regulations is needed to regulate cartography and geodesic works. We have one for land survey but it also needs amending to bring it in line with reality. The third issue proposed was of economic nature. We have presented the Land Registry Office with several elements that justify a real and correct price taking into account the quality of works. The current price, which is 50 lei plus VAT is totally inadequate.”
The goal of this symposium was to bring together professors, government representatives, local officials, representatives of relevant institutions, professional and employers associations, experts in industry, representatives of field companies, suppliers of geodesic equipment, researchers and scientists allowing them to share expertise, ideas and research in this field. Organizers have underlined the fact that the geodetic engineering must be open to cooperation with other professions to offer solutions, services, accessible high—quality products, suited to the market. (Translated by M. Ignatescu & D. Bilt)
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