THE EDUCATION AND PRACTICE OF THE GEODETIC SURVEYOR IN WESTERN EUROPE
Comité de Liaison des Géomètres Européens / The European Council of Geodetic Surveyors
APPENDIX D1 - Belgium

(Population 9.9 million)
( Refs. A1 , B1 , C1 )
Section Contents
1.1   FIG member-organisation
1.2   Other related organisations
1.3   Relevant factors
1.4   Higher Education
1.5   Professional Practice
1.6   Publications
1.7   Acknowledgement
1.8   Useful addresses

1.1  FIG member-organisation

L'Union Belge des Géometres-Experts Immobiliers.(UBG)

1.2  Other related organisations

Association Nationale des Géometres-Experts Immobiliers.
Fédération Royale des Géometres-Experts Indépendants (since 1998 the Confédération Royale des Géomètres-experts CRGE) .

1.3 Relevant factors (1)   Belgium has three official languages - Dutch, French, and German.
(2)   The fiscal cadastre system employs qualified géometres.
(3)   Belgian surveyors may be employed in one of three ways:
  1. as a private surveyor with own office,
  2. as a functionary:
    1. employed by an official agency (state, province, community) or
    2. employed by the cadastre,
  3. in the private sector with engineering offices, industrial firms contractors etc.
(4)   Basic map scales are:
  1. for cadastral maps 1:500 or 1:1000 in urban areas, 1:2500 in rural areas.
  2. for topographic and other maps made by the Institut Géographique National (IGN) at scales of 1: 5 000, 1:10 000, 1: 50 000 , 1:250 000.
1.4 Higher Education
(See appendices A1 and B1) 
Industrële Hogescholen                               Final years
                                                       students  1994-5
IHAM                                 Antwerpen                16
KIH                                  Mechelen                 31
KIHO                                 Gent                     25
BME                                  Gent                     13
KIHW                                 Oostende                 16



Instituts Supérieurs Industriels                    Final years
                                                       students  1994-5
ECAM                                 Bruxelles                5
ISIM                                 Mons                     17
ISIL                                 Liege                    16



Universities                                           Final years
                                                       students  1994-5
Rijksuniversiteit                    Gent                     14
Université de Liege                  Liege                    ?

(1)   The old state surveying examination is supposed to be abolished from 1995 onwards.

(2)   Two universities (faculty of geography : lantmeten in Gent: géométrologue in Liege ) and eight Hogescholen or Instituts Supérieurs (faculty of construction: survey option) organise four year programmes of study. Student numbers in the final year of studies in session 1994/5 were as shown in the table above.

(3)   A Technician working in geodetic surveying and related fields may qualify as Graduaat Topografie after passing a three year course of day or evening classes.


1.5   Professional Practice

(See appendix C1)

By Royal decree of the 18th January 1995 a Surveyors Institute was created with the titles with the official titles respectively of
1.6   Publications

Both professional institutions, the L'Union Belge des Géometres-Experts Immobiliers.(UBG) and the Fédération Royale des Géometres-Experts Indépendants, publish journals.
The learned society, the Association Belge de Photogrammétrie, Télédétection et Cartographie, also publishes a bulletin.

1.7   Acknowledgement

We are indebted to Mr J.J. Derwael of the Union Belge des Géometres for updating this 1995 report.

1.8   Useful addresses 

Union Belge des Géometres
Rue du Sceptre 29
B-1040 Bruxelles

IGN
Institue Geographique National
Abbaye de la Cambre 13
B-1050 Bruxelles

ORB
Observatoire Royal de Belgique
Avenue Circulaire 3
B- 1180 Bruxelles

ERM
Ecole Royale Militaire
Avenue de la Renaissance 30
B- 1040 Bruxelles

IHAM
Paardenmarkt 94
2000 Antwerpen

KIH
Jan de Nayerlaan 5
2860 Sint Katelijne Waver

KIHO
Gebroeders Desmetstraat 1
9000 Gent

BME
Schoonmeerstraat 52
9000 Gent

KIHW
Zeedijk 101
8400 Oostende

ECAM
Rue du Tir 14
1060 Bruxelles

ISIM
Avenue Maistriau 8
7000 Mons

ISIL
Quai Gloescner 6
Liege

Rijksuniversitet- Vakgroep Geografie
Krijgslaan 281
9000 Gent

Université de Liege
Place de 20 Aout 9
4000 Liege
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