We warmly welcome you to the FIG 2011 Working Week which will take place in Marrakech, Morocco from 18thto 22nd May 2011. This FIG conference will be held at the famous Palais de Congrés in Marrakech. We expect more than 1,000 participants from more than 80 countries to attend this only FIG conference in 2011. The Working Week is hosted by FIG and the National Order of Surveying Engineers and Surveyors, ONIGT as the local host. The FIG Working Week will be organised under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI of Morocco. Platinum sponsors of the conference are ESRI and Trimble.
The overall theme of the FIG Working Week 2011 is “Bridging the Gap between Cultures”. As always, the Working Week will gather international professionals and academia members from the fields of land surveying, land and real-estate appraisal, GIS, spatial planning, environmental awareness, and civil engineering. A full technical programme with trade exhibition and technical and social tours will be offered. The technical sessions will be in English and French with interpretation in part of the sessions. Conference sub-themes cover professional standards and ethics; education and training; management of spatial information; hydrography, global positioning and surveying techniques, engineering surveys, cadastre and land managements, spatial planning and development; real estate management and evaluation; and construction economics and project management thus covering all ten FIG commissions. Read More
