The 14th PAQS Congress and Board meeting are to be held in Singapore from 23 to 27 July 2010. The venue is the Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore and the hosts are the Singapore Institute of Surveyors and Valuers (SISV) with the congress theme, Sustainable Cost Management: Borderless Innovatoin. Kindly view this website for registration - http://paqs2010.com.sg

Announcement and call for papers please click here. 

The 13th PAQS Congress and Board meeting was held in Malaysia from 15 to 18 August 2009, at the Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The PAQS Golf tournament was held on Friday, 7 August 2009. The Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (ISM) and the Board of Quantity Surveyors Malaysia were hosted these successful events.

"Construction in Challenging Environments"

Hosted in Edmonton, Canada 14-18 June 2008

The Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors hosted the 12th Congress of PAQS in 2008. A centre of technical innovation and staging point for one of North America"s largest construction booms, Edmonton was a fitting location for an international construction conference at which over 200 delegates along with their partners attended.

An excellent technical program was supplemented by an equally excellent social program, culminating in the Gala Dinner and international flag ceremony.

PAQS 2008 Theme - Construction in Challenging Environments.

The theme of the 12th Congress of PAQS was intended to generate discussion and debate of new and successful construction processes and methods and allow a review of the old.

Topics included

Challenging the status quo, construction financing.

Challenging scope, location and climate.

Challenging the environment, sustainable green building design, environmental impacts, the challenge of climate change.  

Challenging global demographics and economic trends.

Challenging workforce requirements, training and education.

The PAQS Education and Research Committees met on the 15 June 08 in Edmonton and were followed by the PAQS Annual Board meeting and ICEC Region 4 meeting on the 16th. Significant decisions made at the meetings included the establishment of the PAQS Iwata Foundation, establishment of a YQS Group and conduct of an essay competition.  Also, the long awaited PAQS Accreditation Manual was approved for release to universities in the region.  It was agreed that a Code of Conduct be developed for PAQS members and the PAQS research portal developed further with the inclusion of PAQS Congress papers as well as research papers.