BDVI - An innovative professional body
with a mission statement
Who are we?
The Association of Publicly Appointed Surveyors (BDVI) is the professional
group of the publicly appointed surveyors in Germany. As an economic and professional
association the BDVI represents the interests of its approximately 1,300 members
within the association as well as towards the political, economic and administrative
sector.
The priority of the association’s work is on the one hand to strengthen
the individual professional as part of the public surveying system and on the
other hand to underline the general interest in the appointed liberal professionals
helping to establish the profession.
The Association of Publicly Appointed Surveyors follows the tradition which
has been kept for more than one hundred years by the body representing the interests
of freelance surveyors in Germany. The association has developed to one of the
most important associations in the surveying sector over decades determined
and challenged by the reconstruction and reunification of Germany. Nowadays
the BDVI considers it as its main responsibility to lead the profession into
the European future representing a model for public services provided by liberal
professionals.
What aims do we have?
- a positive organisation of legal, economic and political conditions for publicly appointed surveyors
- creation of entrepreneurial spaces for medium-sized enterprises and freelancers
- shift of surveying services from public administrations to publicly appointed surveyors
- cost transparency and inspection of surveying standards
- promotion of performance-related competition between public administrations
and liberal professionals
How do we achieve these aims?
- embodiment of the activities of publicly appointed surveyors in laws, decrees, regulations and directives
- introduction of surveying standards into the process of building
- development of proposals for deregulation and shift of sovereign responsibilities to appointed entrepreneurs
- cooperation with national and European institutions of the liberal professions