The Order of Surveyors presents its "Surveyor 2030" plan

The expert surveyors met in Le Havre, from September 13 to 15, on the occasion of their Congress. Placed under the theme of "The profession facing the challenges of society", the event marks the operational launch of the "Surveyor-expert 2030" project, a prospective strategic vision which must support the profession in taking into account current societal concerns. and future.

It was in front of more than 1.000 delegates that Joseph Pascual, the President of the Superior Council of the Order of Surveyors-Experts (OGE), presented the vision he intends to carry for the profession and the Ordinal Institution through the project “expert surveyor 2030”.

The result of two years of work, interviews and round tables that brought together surveyors in activity or training as well as their collaborators, representatives of the supervisory Ministry, elected officials, customers and social partners... This strategic plan will lead to a real transformation of the profession. It aims to give each firm the means to adapt to the upheavals that are going through our society. It revolves around three axes of transformation – the profession, the surveyor-expert and the Order of Surveyors-Experts – with a priority objective: to make the surveyor-expert the major guarantor of a sustainable living environment.

Regarding the profession, Joseph Pascual notably insisted on the need to think about performance in a more global way, so that economic performance is no more than one component alongside social, societal and environmental performance. “Today, the sustainability of a company necessarily involves analyzing and controlling the impact of its activities on its ecosystem. It is this vision that we have decided to carry”, declared the President of the Superior Council of the EMB. Joseph Pascual also underlined the need for expert surveyors and the Ordinal Authority to build a common vision of what the profession will be like in 2030, "we have the ambition to bring together all the players in regional planning in the medium term,” he said.

Regarding the surveyor-expert, the President of the High Council of the EMB formalized the launch of a CSR label which will make it possible to become familiar with the procedures and good practices to be put in place. The work of the Congress, partly devoted to practices making it possible to limit the impact of development operations on land, has made it possible to highlight new approaches which testify to the awareness of the profession. For example, expert surveyors have formulated several proposals relating to the development of wooded areas and the restructuring of plots in the Forest to improve access and management and to fight against forest fires. The profession also intends to make agricultural land development a tool for preserving the environment that can better promote green and blue networks and prevent climate risks.

The Order also wishes to place the customer experience at the heart of the surveyor's mission. A platform will be launched in particular to allow all surveyor-expert stakeholders to follow the progress of their projects, share their documents more easily and understand more easily the deliverables made by the profession. Several client satisfaction assessment tools will be implemented in all practices to measure the impact of this new approach.

An approach that also aims to attract students who want to find meaning in their profession, "we must listen to the demands of the younger generations, who no longer think only in terms of salary, but who also question their overall impact on society", summed up Joseph Pascual.

The EMB wishes precisely to reform the modes of access to the profession to attract ever more talents with diversified profiles. Joseph Pascual has therefore announced the creation of paths for access to the profession by the academic path and by the professionalizing path, which will integrate the Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) by offering additional training adapted to each candidate, in depending on their curriculum and professional background. This overhaul is based on the creation of a new state diploma for surveyors and the establishment of a training center for surveyors which will function as a resource and educational engineering center responsible for design and produce educational materials, provide training during periods of professional practice and prepare for obtaining the diploma.

The “Surveyor-expert 2030” strategy must also enable the profession and its bodies to evolve to meet the multidisciplinary needs of its clients. The OGE has therefore announced the launch of internal specializations in VRD (Roads and Various Networks) engineering, in town planning and in real estate appraisal expertise. The draft ordinance relating to the practice of the liberal professions in a company will also authorize the surveyor-expert to practice with other professionals in the living environment within Multi-professional Practice Societies. A breakthrough that surveyors have been calling for since 1990!

Finally, Marie-Anne Frison Roche, Professor of Economic Law at the IEP in Paris and specialist in regulatory law, was associated with the reflections of the profession on the modernization of the functioning of its bodies. For Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, professional orders should no longer be thought of solely through the prism of competition law, but also as players in Regulation and Compliance law. Joseph Pascual therefore wishes to carry out a renovated Order project, with societal and environmental missions, like the companies with missions introduced by the Pacte law. This transformation will allow the EMB to integrate new quality standards to control the services delivered by its members, such as CSR or customer experience. More generally, these doctrinal developments will offer the EMB the possibility of strengthening the regulation of the profession, with the aim of guaranteeing that each expert surveyor is a professional of excellence.

Joseph Pascual concluded this time of exchanges and reflection by welcoming this strategy "which is akin to a real challenge which forces us to reinvent ourselves, but which will make each expert surveyor an actor in the preservation of the planet. and the major guarantor of a sustainable living environment”.